Ed Sheeran’s $25m world tour investment pays off

Ed Sheeran’s touring team have detailed the multi-million dollar investment that brought the hitmaker’s four-year Mathematics tour to life.

The globe-trotting run will have sold over eight million tickets across more than 140 headline shows in 42 countries  when it finishes in September at Düsseldorf’s Merkur Spiel-Arena.

Planned in the midst of the global shutdown, Sheeran and his manager Stuart Camp put up $25 million to facilitate the bespoke in-the-round show.

“It needed to be absolutely iconic,” says production…

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