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Ed Sheeran HQ engagement report

@edsheeran - 15M followers on X

Measured over 10 original posts from a 30-day window, last computed on August 31, 2026.

Engagement

Middle of its size range
Per follower
0.008%
of 15M followers
Per impression
0.523%
217K views on a typical post
Reach
1.46%
of its followers see a post
Typical post
1.1K
interactions (median)
Saved
0.029%
62 bookmarks on a typical post
Posting rate
0.63/day
active 30% of days
Peak time
19:00 UTC
Monday

A typical post picks up 1.1K interactions against 15M followers, an engagement rate of 0.008%. Measured over 10 original posts, its engagement rate beats 42% of 3,774 tracked accounts of a similar size, which puts it in the middle of its size range rather than at either end. Posts are seen about 217K times each, and 0.523% of those impressions turn into an interaction. That is about 1.46% of the follower count, which is the gap between an audience on paper and an audience in a timeline. Posting runs at about 0.63 post a day over the last 30 days, though only 30% of days saw any activity at all. Most posts go out around 19:00 UTC, and Monday is the busiest day of the week. Of the 10 posts sampled, 100% carry an image or video and 20% are part of a thread. The account's strongest tracked post pulled 26K interactions, about 23x its own typical post.

Measured over 10 original posts from a 30-day window, last computed on August 31, 2026.

Compared with accounts its own size

Ed Sheeran HQ's engagement rate beats 42% of the tracked X accounts closest to it in follower count (3,774 accounts, accounts of similar size (decile 10 of 10)). A percentile is spread evenly by construction, so 50 really is the middle of that group and 90 really is its top tenth.

On engagement per impression rather than per follower it beats 40% of the same group. When those two numbers disagree, the gap is about how far its posts travel rather than how people react to them.

Where this sits in the catalog

At 0.008%, Ed Sheeran HQ sits above the 10th percentile of the 36,521 accounts in this comparison. That places it in the bottom 25% band, which runs below 0.012%.

p100.002%
p250.012%
p50 (median)0.08%
p750.434%
p902.10%
p99160.7%
Engagement rate as a share of followers, across the 36,521 accounts we have scanned enough to measure. The axis is logarithmic, because the top and bottom of this population are about 107,166 times apart and a linear axis would flatten everything below the median into a single point.
Show the percentile table
Engagement rate percentiles
PercentileEngagement rate
10th percentile0.002%
25th percentile0.012%
50th percentile0.08%
75th percentile0.434%
90th percentile2.10%
99th percentile160.7%

This ruler is the whole measured catalog, not a size-matched group: it shows where the raw rate falls across every account we can measure, all of which are large. For a like-for-like comparison, read the size-band percentile above instead. See how the bands are built

Posting timing

This account posts most often around 19:00 UTC, and Monday is its busiest day of the week. The bars below are the catalog-wide pattern, with this account's own busiest slot marked. They do not show how this account performs at each hour: we keep one aggregate per account, not one per hour, so that measurement does not exist in our data.

Engagement by hour posted, UTCTwenty-four bars, one per UTC hour. Each bar shows how posts published in that hour compare with their own authors' median engagement. Bars above the centre line ran higher than the median, bars below ran lower. A marker flags Busiest hour: 19:00 UTC.
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Above the authors' own mediansBelowScale: plus or minus 6%Busiest hour: 19:00 UTC
Show engagement by hour posted, utc as a table
Engagement by hour posted, UTC
Hour (UTC)Vs author medianPosts
00:00 UTC-1%50K
01:00 UTC-2%51K
02:00 UTC-3%50K
03:00 UTC-4%53K
04:00 UTC-6%43K
05:00 UTC-4%42K
06:00 UTC-4%48K
07:00 UTC-5%52K
08:00 UTC-4%60K
09:00 UTC-3%69K
10:00 UTC-2%72K
11:00 UTC-3%78K
12:00 UTC-2%86K
13:00 UTC-2%94K
14:00 UTC-4%97K
15:00 UTC-2%100K
16:00 UTC-3%97K
17:00 UTC-2%90K
18:00 UTC-1%84K
19:00 UTC-2%79K
20:00 UTC-1%74K
21:00 UTC-1%66K
22:00 UTC-2%57K
23:00 UTC-2%51K
Engagement by day of weekSeven bars, one per weekday, Sunday first. Each bar shows how posts published on that day compare with their own authors' median engagement. Bars above the centre line ran higher than the median, bars below ran lower. A marker flags Busiest day: Monday.
SunMonTueWedThuFriSat
Above the authors' own mediansBelowScale: plus or minus 5%Busiest day: Monday
Show engagement by day of week as a table
Engagement by day of week
DayVs author medianPosts
Sunday+4%230K
Monday0%286K
Tuesday-2%276K
Wednesday-1%251K
Thursday-1%244K
Friday-3%252K
Saturday+3%227K
See what moves engagement across the whole catalogWhat counts as a good engagement rate at this size

Best tweets

  • Jul 24, 202623x their median

    you move like an Animal 🐾 song and official video out now everywhere!! listen now: https://t.co/mhbQOaNHg4 official MV: https://t.co/Ndt17HyUKN #KATSEYE_ANIMAL #KATSEYE #ANIMAL https://t.co/25FbKNjkyC

    20K3.9K3161.9K6.9M viewsView on X
  • May 25, 20268.6x their median

    First time in Ecuador! Thank you guys for the best night ever ♾️🩷 📸 @MarkSurridge https://t.co/9lEurXqUpE

    8.4K1.0K8368165K viewsView on X
  • May 28, 20266.7x their median

    ¡Muchas Gracias to the beautiful people of Guatemala City! 🇬🇹 📸 @MarkSurridge https://t.co/XaqIl4ONhu

    6.0K5435565144K viewsView on X
  • Aug 4, 20264.3x their median

    Ed Sheeran has writing credits on 2 of the top 10 songs on Spotify’s Global 200 chart this week. 'Dai Dai' by Shakira & Burna Boy spends a fourth consecutive week at #1, while 'Animal' by KATSEYE debuts at #10. (via Billboard) https://t.co/TVoH29AzUW

    4.4K23213227248K viewsView on X
  • Jul 9, 20263.5x their median

    Ed visited the lads at the @england team camp 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁥󠁮󠁧󠁿 https://t.co/lYDM4U4Y7u

    3.6K2843615235K viewsView on X
  • May 29, 20263.7x their median

    Name a more Perfect moment, we'll wait... Thank you Guatemala City! 🇬🇹 https://t.co/s3hGlZjxHq

    3.2K3835642156K viewsView on X
  • Jun 1, 20262.3x their median

    Costa Rica 🇨🇷 Thank you for the best end to the Loop Tour's first Latin America shows!! Miss you already 🩷 📸 @MarkSurridge https://t.co/HAHqB8k1qO

    2.2K143278107K viewsView on X
  • Aug 4, 20262.0x their median

    Ed Sheeran 🤝 Julio Rodríguez @JRODshow44 brought Ed to the cages to take some swings... iconic 🤩 https://t.co/OqHsGGpPfj

    1.9K1646371633K viewsView on X
  • Jul 22, 20261.7x their median

    Ed & @shakira duetting Underneath Your Clothes at @barclayscenter 🫶 🎥 shakhq https://t.co/jTJLT4hvnT

    1.6K2192716396K viewsView on X
  • Jun 21, 2026

    Thank you Nashville! You were perfect 🫶 https://t.co/vboIALhwZb

    1.4K17633587K viewsView on X

Ranked by total interactions across everything we have tracked for this account, which is a longer history than the 30-day window the rates above use. The multiple compares each post to this account's own median.

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Reading these numbers

A typical post picks up 1.1K interactions against 15M followers, an engagement rate of 0.008%. Measured over 10 original posts, its engagement rate beats 42% of 3,774 tracked accounts of a similar size, which puts it in the middle of its size range rather than at either end. Posts are seen about 217K times each, and 0.523% of those impressions turn into an interaction. That is about 1.46% of the follower count, which is the gap between an audience on paper and an audience in a timeline. Posting runs at about 0.63 post a day over the last 30 days, though only 30% of days saw any activity at all. Most posts go out around 19:00 UTC, and Monday is the busiest day of the week. Of the 10 posts sampled, 100% carry an image or video and 20% are part of a thread. The account's strongest tracked post pulled 26K interactions, about 23x its own typical post.

What is Ed Sheeran HQ's engagement rate on X?
Ed Sheeran HQ (@edsheeran) has an engagement rate of 0.008%, based on the median interactions across 10 original posts from the last 30 days against 14,808,014 followers. Replies, reposts and quote-posts of other people are excluded from that sample.
Is that a good engagement rate?
At 0.008%, Ed Sheeran HQ sits above the 10th percentile of the 36,521 accounts in this comparison. Those comparison accounts are all large ones, because our scanning cadence is weighted towards big accounts, so this is a ranking among peers of similar scale rather than a ranking across X.
Does @edsheeran have real engagement?
Its engagement rate beats 42% of the tracked X accounts closest to it in follower count (3,774 accounts), which puts it in the middle of its size range group. Ranking inside a size band matters because engagement rate falls as accounts grow, so a raw rate would mostly re-measure the follower count. It is a starting point for a look at follower quality, not a verdict on it.
When does @edsheeran post?
Most posts go out around 19:00 UTC, and Monday is its busiest day, at roughly 0.63 posts per day across the measured window.

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