On September 8, 2020, Omega Auctions, a top auction house for music memorabilia and vinyl records, offered for sale a rare CD copy of Ed Sheeran’s first ever, unreleased album, Spinning Man. While the CD’s opening price was £10,000, it ultimately sold for £61,500 including the buyer’s premium. Mr. Sheeran had given away said copy to a relative’s friend when he stayed and slept at his relative’s house during his busking days. Over a decade later, the brother of that friend found the demo in a drawer and subsequently sold it at the auction. In his 2014 book, Mr. Sheeran wrote that he had produced twenty copies of the album himself and created the cover art, too. Nevertheless, he was unwilling to allow “anyone else to get hold of a copy,” and he therefore kept the remaining nineteen CDs.1