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 claims fifth Number 1 album in Ireland with Equals
officialcharts.comEd Sheeran’s new album = (Equals) charges straight in at Number 1 on this week’s Official Irish Albums Chart. The singer-songwriter’s latest collection outperforms the rest of this week’s Top 10 combined, securing him a fifth chart-topping album, following + (2011), x (2014), ÷ (2017, and places at Number 10 this week), and No.6 Collaborations Project (2019).
There’s another big new entry this week from US rock band The War On Drugs – their fifth studio album I Don’t Live Here Anymore enters at Number 4, matching the peak of their last album, 2017’s A Deeper Understanding.
Last week’s Number 1, Olivia Rodrigo Sour, drops to Number 2, and in anticipation of ABBA’s new album Voyage released today, the group’s Gold – Greatest Hits album places
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