I'm not sure how Ed Sheeran distribute his music, but I think you're making a mistake in the calculations. Ed Sheeran doesn't make $226,997.49 per month from Spotify, that is the amount they pay the record company to stream his music.
Artist frequently complain that Spotify isn't paying them enough, but forgetting that the record companies take a very large chuck of the profits, just to act as an increasingly irrelevant middleman.
Artist frequently complain that Spotify isn't paying them enough, but forgetting that the record companies take a very large chuck of the profits, just to act as an increasingly irrelevant middleman.