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.
Taylor Alison Swift is an American singer-songwriter. She is known for narrative songs about her personal life, which have received widespread media coverage. At age 14, Swift became the youngest artist signed by the Sony/ATV Music publishing house and, at 15, she signed her first record deal.
Her 2006 eponymous debut album was the longest-charting album of the 2000s in the US. Its third single, "Our Song", made her the youngest person to single-handedly write and perform a number-one song on the Billboard Hot Country Songs chart. Swift's second album, Fearless, was released in 2008.
Buoyed by the pop crossover success of the singles "Love Story" and "You Belong with Me", it became the US' best-selling album of 2009 and was certified diamond in the US. The album won four Grammy Awards, and Swift became the youngest Album of the Year winner.
Ed Sheeran and Taylor Swift Team Up for New Rendition of 'The Joker and the Queen'
etonline.comEd Sheeran and Taylor Swift are collaborating again! On Thursday, the pair teamed up for a new version of «The Joker and the Queen,» a track that first appeared on Sheeran's album, =, last year.The accompanying music video — directed by Emil Nava — is a continuation of Swift's «Everything Has Changed,» which also featured Sheeran.
It also includes the original actors a decade later. The new reimagined version of the song and its music video «captures the coming-of-age story of the now 18-year-olds, Ava and Jack, as they head to university and embark on new adventures,» per the press release.After the video's premiere, Swift took to Instagram Story to send a message to her friend.«This video makes me think of our friendship all these years,» she wrote in part, adding how she «can't believe Jack & Ava from the Everything Has Changed video came back and did this!!!
Nostalgic heaven!»Earlier this week, Sheeran teased his and Swift's collab by posting a TikTok video that gave fans their first listen to Swift's vocals on the track.This is the fourth time the pair team up, also teaming up on «End Game,» and «Run (Taylor's Version).»Last year, rumors swirled that Sheeran and Swift's latest collaboration was in the works, though the British star played coy when ET asked him about it at the 2021 MTV EMAs.«You know what?» Sheeran asked ET at the time. «It's nice to have surprises in life.»He was all too happy to praise his pal, though, telling ET that Swift is «a very, very good friend of mine.»«I've known her about 10 years and it's just nice to have someone in the music industry who goes to the same sort of things,» he said.
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