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 and Elton John have dropped the very festive music video for their new single, Merry Christmas. The track was released today (December 3) - exactly three weeks before the race for the Official Christmas Number 1 kicks off.
All UK proceeds from this year's Christmas period will go to the Ed Sheeran Suffolk Music Foundation. In a Love Actually-inspired post on his social media channels, Ed said: "Last Christmas I received a call from my mate Elton John and he told me we should do a Christmas song, and I replied 'Yeah maybe in 2022', but I actually wrote the chorus that day and here we are. "Our Christmas song Merry Christmas is out this Friday (December 3).
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