Edward Christopher Sheeran, MBE (born 17 February 1991) is an English singer-songwriter. In early 2011, Sheeran independently released the extended play, No. 5 Collaborations Project. After signing with Asylum Records, his debut album, + (pronounced "plus"), was released in September 2011. It topped the UK and Australian charts, reached number five in the US, and has since been certified eight-times platinum in the UK.
The album contains the single "The A Team", which earned him the Ivor Novello Award for Best Song Musically and Lyrically. In 2012, Sheeran won the Brit Awards for Best British Male Solo Artist and British Breakthrough Act. "The A Team" was nominated for Song of the Year at the 2013 Grammy Awards, where he performed the song with Elton John.
Billboard hails new UK invasion of USA by Ed Sheeran, Adele and more as "strongest in 30 years"
officialcharts.comBillboard has hailed the new invasion of UK acts on the US charts - lead by the efforts of Ed Sheeran and Adele - as the "strongest in 30 years." This comes after both Adele and Coldplay recently topped the US Billboard Hot 100 singles chart with Easy On Me and My Universe with BTS respectively.
At the time of writing, Easy On Me is still the Number 1 song in America, while Ed Sheeran's Equals has topped the Billboard 200 - the first time two British acts have held the Number 1 song and album in the US since the 80s.
Dua Lipa's Levitating also recently broke a long-held record for the most amount of weeks a single by a female artist has spent in the Top 10, while Glass Animals' Heat Waves also became a record-breaker for its long ascent
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