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Ed Sheeran returns to stage after Palestine controversy

Rank
Ran
46h
Updated
15d ago
Final
Outlets
23
Regions
5
Countries
18
Languages
7

+8

Where it travelled

The 18 countries whose press covered it; when each joined is no longer held. 2 international outlets publish from no single country and cannot be shown. Open the live map

The regions

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  • Africa 2 outlets · 1 country · 9%
  • Americas 6 outlets · 5 countries · 26%
  • Asia-Pacific 3 outlets · 3 countries · 13%
  • Europe 7 outlets · 6 countries · 30%
  • Middle East 3 outlets · 3 countries · 13%
  • International 2 outlets · 9%

The figures

Coverage
23 outlets in 18 countries, across 5 regions. The article links are no longer held: they lasted a week past the story’s last article; the outlet list is permanent. Of the 23 outlets, 2 state-owned, 1 public-service, 20 private. A count of countries is not a count of independent press systems.
Countries by region
Africa 1: Nigeria. Americas 5: Argentina, Brazil, Canada, United States, Venezuela. Asia-Pacific 3: Indonesia, Malaysia, Philippines. Europe 6: Belgium, Finland, Germany, Poland, Spain, United Kingdom. Middle East 3: Iran, Qatar, Saudi Arabia. The region a country’s press publishes from, as the feed list files it; the outlets that publish from no single country count as one country under International.
Languages
German, English, Spanish, Finnish, Dutch, Polish, Portuguese.
Timeline
Earliest article Estadão, 18 Sept 2026, 17:55 UTC. First seen 18 Sept 2026, 18:10 UTC. Last seen 20 Sept 2026, 17:02 UTC. The earliest article is the earliest claimed publication time among the outlets Loudest reads, a claim rather than an observation and not a record of who broke the story (the data files call it the lead article); first seen is when Loudest first fetched an article of it, from which the running time counts.
Classification
Region Americas, United States. Topic Culture. Hard news Not judged. This story predates the hard-news rule (methodology 3.0). Whether the story is hard news under the rule in the methodology, judged from its headlines by a model; a story judged outside the rule is left off the map and kept here. The region and country are where the story is about, not where it was covered.
Score
14.26, at the end of the last day measured. One vote per general-press country and a smaller term for outlets, each counted from the moment it joined the story and fading on its own clock, so a late article does not renew the rest. A day in the archive keeps the score it was ranked by that day.
Day by day

Outlets and countries are the story’s whole life as of that midnight; the 24-hour columns are that day’s own coverage; the last column is the methodology version the day was measured under, and a day that spans a change of version shows the first and last, linked to the changelog that lists every version between. A day marked partial is one Loudest read only in part: fewer than 130 of its 144 ten-minute runs, or more than 30 minutes missed at its start or end.

Day Rank Score Outlets Countries 24h outlets 24h countries Method
19 Sept 2026 80 12.65 12 9 – – 1.4
20 Sept 2026 71 14.26 23 18 10 8 1.4 → 2.0

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How this was measured

This page describes measured coverage: which of the outlets Loudest reads carried the story, from how many countries and in how many languages, and when. It says nothing about whether the story is true, important or well reported.

Started 18 Sept, 18:10 UTC · Updated 20 Sept, 17:02 UTC

Covered by 23 outlets

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Africa 2 outlets

  • Punch Nigeria
  • Vanguard Nigeria

Americas 6 outlets

  • Clarín Argentina
  • CTV News Canada
  • El Nacional Venezuela
  • Estadão Brazil
  • G1 Brazil
  • NBC News United States

Asia-Pacific 3 outlets

  • Free Malaysia Today Malaysia
  • Philippine Daily Inquirer Philippines
  • Tempo Indonesia

Europe 7 outlets

  • Der Spiegel Germany
  • El Mundo Spain
  • Frankfurter Allgemeine Germany
  • Helsingin Sanomat Finland
  • The Guardian United Kingdom
  • TVN24 Poland
  • VRT NWS Belgium

Middle East 3 outlets

  • Al Jazeera Qatar
  • Arab News Saudi Arabia
  • Tehran Times Iran

International 2 outlets

  • INTLAl-Monitor International
  • INTLMiddle East Eye International

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