Ed Sheeran may have ultimately won two 2018 Grammy Awards – best pop solo performance for Shape Of You and best pop vocal album for ÷ – but it’s his exclusion from the ‘Big Three’ categories that still rankles with his publishers.

Sheeran is one of Sony/ATV’s most prolific and successful songwriters, both for himself and other artists. And, speaking before the controversial ceremony,  chairman/CEO Martin Bandier doesn’t mince his words when he describes Sheeran’s omission from the record of ...