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.
Ed Sheeran = 1
completemusicupdate.comEd Sheeran’s new album ‘=’ has gone straight to number one in the UK, to the surprise of absolutely no one. It’s done all sorts of numbers, which just make everyone else look bad.The album racked up 139,000 sales (and equivalent streams) – outselling the rest of the top 30 combined.
In fact, it’s the best opening week since 2017, when some guy called Ed Sheeran released an album called ‘÷’.It always feels really clunky to talk about actual sales and equivalent streams together, but the way the chart is calculated is quite clunky.
And you’re probably thinking, “Pah! Yeah, weird to talk about ‘sales’ when most of that 139,000 number will have come from streams anyway”.
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