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 Shivers is the UK's Number 1 trending song
officialcharts.comEd Sheeran’s new single Shivers, the third track from his upcoming album =, goes straight in at the the top of this week’s Official Trending Chart.
The song, which serves as the second single proper from his new record, is heading for Number 1 on the Official Singles Chart this Friday, too – facing off against Sheeran’s own Bad Habits, which has so far enjoyed 11 weeks at the top.
The song’s video, which stars actress AnnaSophia Robb opposite Ed, has already racked up 11.4 million views globally at time of writing.
In the UK only, the song in total was streamed 1.8 million times across audio and video platforms in the first three days of its release.
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