Ed Sheeran: 'Beyoncé controls all women'

'Sing' sensation Ed Sheeran has revealed that he thinks Beyoncé is the biggest influence to women in pop culture and described her as 'owning women around the world'.

During an appearance on Atlanta's Power 96.1 radio station this morning (July 11), the superstar was asked to choose between rapper Iggy Azalea and Beyoncé, and he went for the 'Halo' hitmaker without hesitation:

"Beyoncé controls all women. Beyoncé owns women around the world. Beyoncé just has this thing, women want to be her. They want to think like her. They want to do the things that she does. When that album dropped, you realised how many of your mates are Beyoncé fans because I had a house party the day that it dropped—and I didn't know it was dropping, obviously all the women did—and all of the women locked themselves in a room with big speakers and listened to the album all the way through."

Sheeran recalled: "There were about 16 of them. And the guys were just there drinking beer playing pool we just didn't know what was going on so we went in and they were just there [singing] 'Drunk in Love'!"

Watch the interview clip in question here: