Ed Sheeran has revealed that he ended up in hot water with his record label when they discovered that he had written hit songs for One Direction.
The 23-year-old singer wrote Little Things and Moments for the chart-topping boyband and has admitted that he went against his label’s wishes.
According to Sheeran, Atlantic Records were “annoyed” that his best-performing song had been recorded by someone else.
“I wasn’t gonna do it… basically my record label got very annoyed that my first number one was a song that I gave to someone else, and they were kind of like, ‘Don’t do it’.”
Ed initially turned down the request to write a song for the band’s new album Four he told Australian radio station Nova, but that then he got the idea for a song in Copenhagen.
“I just got an idea and I went in the shower room, where it’s big and reverberative and wrote it. I was like, ‘That sounds like a song that would be perfect for them’ and sent it across,” he revealed.
“It’s one of these songs that I wouldn’t have used for myself; it was written specifically for them.”
