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's Bad Habits claims UK's Number 1 trending song
officialcharts.comEd Sheeran's Bad Habits claims the Number 1 spot on this week's Official Trending Chart. The 80s-pop inspired dance track is a deviation from what we might usually expect from Ed, but clearly a welcome one for fans, as the single is currently on course to debut at Number 1 on the Official Singles Chart, clocking up 2.6 million streams in the first three days of its release.
If Bad Habits holds on, it will be Ed Sheeran's landmark tenth Number 1 single in the UK. See all of Ed Sheeran's hit songs on his Official Chart history.
Bad Habits - whose video features Vampire Ed in a snazzy pink suit - is Ed's first official single since 2019. Back in December Ed released acoustic song Afterglow, though this was just a one-off for the fans,
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