Paul Campos recently went to Wikipedia to look up the highest grossing concert tours of all time. Long story short, the #1 spot is held by Ed Sheeran, which Paul found dismaying because he had never heard of Ed Sheeran.
This is life for us oldsters. Sorry. But really, it's mostly related to interest in music. Marian likes to watch music award shows, which means I watch them too now and again—and I routinely ask some version of "Wait, is that really somebody famous?" It is, of course, and Marian knows all about them even though she's two years older than me.
Having said that, though, come on, man. Ed Sheeran? Even I know that he's one of the most famous singers in the world. Jeez.
And one other thing. My first thought when I read Paul's post was, "Sure, but maybe Sheeran just went on tour for a really long time." If you stay on the road forever, of course your total gross will be really high.
Sure enough, Sheeran did 255 shows over three years. But if you look at highest gross per show, the Rolling Stones are on top and Sheeran is only tenth. Sorry, Ed.
POSTSCRIPT: This comes via Atrios, who I basically agree with.
I only recently discovered Ed Sheeran existed, which was the same day I realized I couldn't imagine why anyone would care about this banal dimwit.