There was no pressure. It was just another day in the recording studio. That was the key to writing Ed Sheeran’s “Shape of You,” which has been on the Hot 100 since it was released Jan. 6 and topped ...

If you were at a 50 Cent show, and he was teasing a special guest, and the guest was behind a rising box emblazoned with the harrowing message, “There is a monster in this box,” and you thought, ...