Ed Sheeran is now one step closer to reaching the distinguished EGOT (Emmy, Grammy, Oscar, Tony) status.
With the hit singer-songwriter’s win of Outstanding Original Music and Lyrics for Ted Lasso‘s “A Beautiful Game” at the 75th Primetime Creative Arts Emmy Awards. Sheeran, who already has four Grammy trophies under his belt, was not in attendance at the ceremony to accept the statuette but took to his Instagram page to express his gratitude at winning the award. “I was not expecting to win at all, it was a real real surprise waking up to the news, I wish I had been there but I’m just about to kick off the Asia tour so had to be elsewhere sadly,” he wrote in the caption.
With the song being a joint effort between Sheeran, prolific songwriter/producer Max Martin, and Foy Vance, the post also narrated the story of how the collaboration came together. “We were all fans of the show and got asked to do a song for the finale, so 2 years ago this month we got in together and wrote a song about love and football, and how it is always about the journey rather than the destination. I recorded a crowd at one of my stadium shows for it singing the final chant to keep it in the footie wibes,” mentioned Sheeran.
Ed Sheeran with producer Max Martin at the studio. Courtesy of @teddysphotos
The track was featured in the third season finale “So Long, Farewell” of Apple TV’s hit series, and competed against other contenders like “Fought & Lost” also from Ted Lasso, as well as tracks from Netflix’s Ginny & Georgia, Showtime’s The L Word: Generation Q, Prime Video’s The Marvelous Mrs. Maisel and Roku’s Weird: The Al Yankovic Story.
Though the latter lost to Sheeran’s original song, Weird: The Al Yankovic Story also won big at the 2024 Creative Emmys, taking home the awards for Outstanding Music Composition for a Limited or Anthology Series, Movie or Special (Original Dramatic Score) and Outstanding Television movie. Other notable musical wins from the ceremony include wins for HBO’s The White Lotus in the Outstanding Music Composition for a Series (Outstanding Dramatical Score) category, as well as Netflix’s Wednesday for Outstanding Original Main Title.
Last 2023, Sheeran released two full-length studio albums, with “–” being released on May 5, while the surprise release “Autumn Variations” came out on September 25.
Currently, he is set to embark on the Asia leg of his “+-=÷x” World Tour which is set to take place in the Philippines this upcoming March 9, 2024, at the SMDC Festival Grounds. Special guest Calum Scott is also set to make an appearance at the tour, which will begin later this month in Bahrain, going through Dubai, Japan, Singapore, Taiwan, Thailand, Indonesia, and Malaysia before reaching the Manila stop of the tour.
Listen to Ed Sheeran’s “A Beautiful Game” below: