Ed-nalysis
Who is Ed, really?
Ed Sheeran (pictured above) is an English singer-songwriter. He is one of the best selling artists of all time and has sold more than 150 million records worldwide.
Word Frequency
After scraping all of the lyrics for every Ed Sheeran song, I found the number of occurrences for each word. Ed Sheeran has written 250 songs, with over 92,000 words. Below are the top 10 most common, but you can see the whole list here.
i: 3630
the: 3459
you: 2840
and: 2642
to: 1937
my: 1892
me: 1727
a: 1630
in: 1539
it: 1117
Pretty boring, right? Let's see what happens when we remove the most common words from the list.
you: 2840
my: 1892
me: 1727
it: 1117
on: 1028
love: 945
your: 886
i'm: 884
we: 878
with: 864
love: 945
i'm: 884
is: 598
oh: 509
don't: 496
night: 433
never: 411
it's: 382
yeah: 367
i'll: 336
Still a little boring. Let's see what else we can do.
Most Common Colors
Below is a graph showing all the color mentions in Ed Sheeran's lyrics.
Color names and codes from Wikipedia
Swear Words
Below is a graph showing all the swear words in Ed Sheeran's lyrics. What a potty mouth!
Is there any trend to Ed's usage of swear words? Perhaps he has redeemed himself with a negative trend.
Unfortunately, it seems that Ed's potty mouth is only getting worse. (Note: the sums for the two graphs are not equal due to swear words that are in songs that are not in the albums)
Individual Albums
