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 Official Irish Singles Chart history - the numbers behind his success in Ireland
officialcharts.comEd Sheeran had the second-most Number 1 hits of the 2010s decade, so you could say he's pretty popular in Ireland. As Ed's standalone 'fan track' Afterglow reaches the Official Irish Singles Chart Top 10, look back at the key chart feats of Ed's career so far.
Ed has impacted the Official Irish Singles Chart Top 50 on 42 occasions so far in his career, more than the likes of Calvin Harris, Beyoncé and Pink.
Ed has claimed 30 Top 10 hits in Ireland, three more than his native UK. Impressively, 11 of those are off the same album, 2017's ÷.
Again, it was Ireland where more songs from ÷ went Top 10 than in the UK. In fact, the week ÷ was released, the Top 16 of the Official Irish Singles Chart were tracks from the album, making it - you guessed
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