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 scores ninth week at Official Singles Chart Number 1
officialcharts.comEd Sheeran lands a ninth consecutive week at Number 1 on the Official Singles Chart with Bad Habits, while his latest release Visiting Hours is the highest new entry of the week.
Continuing to comfortably lead on both digital downloads and streaming figures, Bad Habits shows little sign of slowing down yet as it becomes his longest-reigning Number 1 single since 2017’s Shape Of You, which spent a total of 14 weeks at the top, 13 of which were consecutive.
Ed’s chart domination continues as Visiting Hours debuts at Number 5, a landmark 30th UK Top 10 single for the singer-songwriter – matching Rihanna and placing him in joint-tenth place for most Top 10s in UK chart history.
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