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 Opens Up About His Friendship With Harry Styles, Compares Him to Another Close Pal
justjared.comEd Sheeran is opening up about his friend Harry Styles. The 32-year-old “Don’t” hitmaker and 29-year-old “Watermelon Sugar” musician have been close for years and even collaborated on music during Harry‘s One Direction days.
During a recent interview, Ed looked back on their time together and all that his friend has accomplished. He also compared Harry to another famous pal. Keep reading to find out more… “There’s something about going through your formative years, you know like it’s quite weird.
Like, he’s obviously, like, on top of the world right now and has gone from being in the biggest boy band in the world to then being the biggest solo artist in the world,” Ed reminisced while on the Sprout podcast, according to Billboard.
He added that he was “like, really, like super, super proud of him.” Ed also was able to draw comparisons between Harry and Taylor Swift, another one of the musician’s pals who he has worked with in the past. “It’s the same thing as Taylor, like, there’s rarely people that like totally understand you and I think both of them because they are solo artists and are at this level you kind of talk and there’s an understanding there that you don’t necessarily get from everyone,” he explained.
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