According to Entertainment Weekly, Ed Sheeran and Guitar Center have launched a public contest to find an opening act for Sheeran’s Mexico City concert after controversy surrounding former opener Macklemore disrupted the tour lineup.
The contest invites independent musicians to submit performance videos, although the report says the submissions have also attracted fake entries, memes and protest messages.
Validation: Entertainment Weekly reports the contest launch and the disruption to the touring lineup; the report also documents the reaction surrounding the submissions.
Echotitbits take: The unusual contest shows how a touring problem can quickly become a social-media event of its own. The credibility of individual submissions should be treated carefully because the organiser is already dealing with fake and protest entries.
Source: The Guardian — https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2026/sep/15/ed-sheeran-macklemore-palestine-openers-finneas, 17 September 2026
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