Apple reportedly gets rights to Ed Sheeran documentary ‘Songwriter’

You might soon be seeing the documentary on Ed Sheeran’s life soon on “Apple’s multiple platforms.” The tech company reportedly paid somewhere in the “low to mid-seven figures” to not just make it available on its platform (it’s presumed to be coming to Apple Music) as well as a theatrical release. The film premiered in Berlin and is coming to North America via the Tribeca Film Festival.

The documentary, which highlights the life and career of the singer, was directed by Sheeran’s cousin Murray Cummings. You will see people like producer Benny Blanco and Sheeran’s manager Stuart Camp, among others, in the film.

Source: 9to5Mac

Drake now holds streaming records on Spotify for new 'playlist'

As Mashable has pointed it out, Drake and Ed Sheeran have built their careers on being underdogs in their genres. And it seems they’re battling each other over who gets to rule Spotify streaming records. Coming out top at the moment is Toronto native Drake. He released a new “playlist” called More Life on the streaming service and broke two of Ed Sheeran’s streaming records on Spotify for his new album Divide, which just came out a few weeks ago.

Drake garnered best first day streams for an album with 61,302,082 streams over Sheeran’s 56,727,861 streams back on March 3^rd. Aside from that, he also gets most streams for an artist in one day with 76,355,041 over Sheeran’s 68,695,172 during the first full day his new album came out.