00:00When singer Ed Sheeran resumes his tour in Philadelphia on Saturday, he'll be taking to the stage alone.
00:07His supporting act pulled out after rapper Macklemore was dropped for saying Free Palestine during a performance in New Jersey.
00:16Experts say it's a situation that doesn't happen often.
00:19I wouldn't say it's common. Most people, when there's this much at stake, not speaking to the specifics of this
00:27tour, it's a major stadium tour with multiple acts and one of the highest grossing headliners in history, period, leading
00:36the way.
00:38They tend to want to avoid these kind of things unless the tour is billed as that, like Springsteen tour.
00:46He went out saying what he was going to do. You knew what you were getting into before you even
00:50went to those last shows he did.
00:52He had a political point he wanted to make and he has enough equity in his career to kind of
00:59do what he wants to do at this point.
01:02I'm not saying other artists don't, but what I'm saying is it's not common and they do try to avoid
01:08it and nobody's particularly happy about how it's all gone down.
01:17Sheeran has blamed the promoter for the decision to drop Macklemore and while artists headline the shows, Waddell says promoters
01:27pay the bills and money is power.
01:32There's always financial implications. It's all boils down to a legal issue. Generally doesn't get that far. If somebody has
01:45to take less because of something that happened, they work it out because everybody wants to work together to get
01:51in the future.
01:54Far from backing away from the ruckus, Macklemore has doubled down.
02:01He's announced he'll donate his million dollar paycheck from the tour to Palestinian causes.
02:07.
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