What is the difference between famous from his big hit, and famous for his big hit?

To me, it sounds like famous from his big hit is stating that he's a one-hit wonder, as in that's the only song that made him famous before returning to being a random. However, famous for his big hit lessens that effect. It credits his fame to that song but not entirely.

Absolutely nothing. Welcome to the English language of 500 words meaning the same thing.

Famous for his big hit makes more sense, and the rest of the sentence isn't well worded - it could be interpreted as saying the game is famous. An unambiguous version would be 'Ed Sheeran, famous for his big hit Shape of You, enjoying the game.'

He's not a native speaker of English. It should be "for".

I've never heard a native American English speaker say "famous from." It's definitely "famous for," "made famous by," "famed for," or "of X fame" (in this case "Ed Sheeran, of 'Shape of You' fame"). The only time I could see "famous" and "from" in the same sentence is in the case of "that famous guy from The Office" or similar. As a professional copywriter, that caption is terribly put together and very confusing.

I'd say time. For sounds like the hit is a current release, whilst from sounds like it was from a while ago.

Famous *from* would be used to describe something he was *in* or *part of* like a TV series or a band. Famous *for* means he is famous for something he did/published. Basically the distinction is whether he is famous on his own/for actions chiefly taken by him, or as a part of something with others.

Most people would say that they mean the same thing, but I would say... 'famous for' means the most recent thing the person derives fame 'famous from' means the only thing the person derives fame

Nothing.

From implies that it made him famous. For implies he is currently relevant due to said song. Ie. Gotye was made famous from his one hit wonder somebody that I used to know Whilst someone like Travis Scott, already famous and world renowned mind you, had a resurgence from his recent album utopia and the very popular song fein. In this case, people didn’t know ed Sheeran before shape of you, but he has made many other pop songs that are big and rival shape of you, but they didn’t make him famous.

this whole headline is awkward, and either “from” or “for” used here implies that he’s only famous because of that song even though that’s not true. however, “for” would sound more natural to me as a native speaker. a more fitting headline would be something like “‘Shape of You’ singer Ed Sheeran enjoying the game.”