Did music streaming platform Spotify delete Ed Sheeran's songs after Macklemore's removal from Sheeran's tour for pro-Palestine statements? No, that's not true: As of this writing, the artist's songs are still available on the platform. The rumor seemed to have originated from a self-proclaimed satire account.
The claim appeared in a post (archived here) on Threads where it was published on Sept. 16, 2026, by the @dmitrii_veselskii account. It opened:
Cancel culture is something that apply only to harmless people. Remember.
Those ones who really have power to change, never get cancelled.
The image shared in the post continued:
SPOTIFY HAS REMOVED ED SHEERANS SONGS FROM THE PLATFORM.
This is what that picture looked like on Threads at the time of writing:
(Image source: post by @dmitrii_veselskii on Threads.)
The claim spread on social media in the aftermath of the controversy (archived here) surrounding Sheeran's September 2026 U.S. tour. However, it wasn't true.
(Image source: Spotify.)
The claim appeared to have originated on Sept. 14, 2026 (archived here), from an account with a self-attached satire label (archived here) that read:
Parody & Satire Entertainment | Not real news
While there was media coverage (archived here) of an Irish radio station removing Sheeran's music from the air, a search on Google News for the keywords seen here (archived here) didn't produce any corroboration for the claim reviewed in this fact check.
