Ed Sheeran plays Amalie Arena in Tampa, Florida on August 29, 2017. Credit: Kamran Malik

Ed Sheeran plays Amalie Arena in Tampa, Florida on August 29, 2017. Credit: Kamran Malik

Ed Sheeran  just broke the record for most weeks spent on the Top 10 of Billboard’s Hot 100 and reigns as one the most successful solo male performers in pop music. Shape Of You” has 1.2 billion streams on Spotify alone, people.

On Tuesday night, the 26 year old Brit dropped into Tampa's Amalie Arena, where our reviewer witnessed an unplanned performance of “Give Me Love” — a song Sheeran hasn’t played in the U.S. since 2013.

Read more of our review (and see photos of Sheeran and opener James Blunt) here, and relive the night by listening to the playlist below. Stream and download it via Spotify.

Read his 2016 intro letter and disclosures from 2022 and 2021. Ray Roa started freelancing for Creative Loafing Tampa in January 2011 and was hired as music editor in August 2016. He became Editor-In-Chief...