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 fans fuming as they queue for hours and miss out on tickets for first tour in two years
thesun.co.ukED Sheeran’s fans were left fuming this morning as they struggled to get hold of tickets for his first tour in two years. The seats for his 14 UK and Ireland dates went on sale at 9am today and desperate fans rushed to get hold of them - but were left stumped by huge queues.
Angry buyers waited for up to two hours, with at times 50,000 people in front of them in order to bag one, but to no avail. Taking to Twitter to moan about how difficult it was, one person wrote: “@edsheeran queued for over 2 hours and still couldn’t get any tickets to see you!
Gutted is an understatement.” A second tweeted: "I tried to buy some @edsheeran tickets this morning I was 40,250 in the queue, unfortunately I was unsuccessful." While a third added: “Hi.
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