Ed’s giving Simon Cowell a run for his money (Picture: Getty, Shutterstock, Metro.co.uk)

In today’s episode of ‘What Can’t Ed Sheeran Do?’, he’s now announced that he’s looking to put together a boy band.

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Move over Simon Cowell and Gary Barlow!

Covering the front cover of Rolling Stone, the Shape Of You singer told the publication that he has plans to have his own boy band and he is currently ‘auditioning members.’

The chosen ones will get to perform and record songs that he’s already written, and of course hang out with him.


Ed explained: ‘I’m gonna put three or four boys together and do all the songs, take them on the stadium tour with me,’ adding that the songs that he has written for the group so far are, ‘really, really decent. Super-pop, but obviously credible.’



The 26-year-old has written a number of songs for top artists including One Direction, Taylor Swift, Olly Murs, The Weeknd and Justin Bieber, so he clearly knows what he’s doing.

Ed has written songs for basically everyone, including The Weeknd (Picture: Scott Kirkland/REX/Shutterstock)

Talking about his future plans to takeover stadiums on tour, he said: ‘I want to do stadiums everywhere. Like George Strait’s level – he tours every four years, does a couple of stadiums and then f***s off again.’

As well as putting together the next big boy band, Ed has been busy breaking records after knocking The Weeknd from his Spotify throne and becoming the artist with the most Spotify streams in one day, getting over 68 million streams after releasing his third album ÷ (Divide).

Considering that almost anything that Ed touches turns to gold – or a LOT of streams, excuse us while we go sign up.

Reps for Ed have been contacted for comment.

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