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 transforms into vampire for new single Bad Habits and his fans love it
dailystar.co.uk, Ed explained Afterglow was released to appease fans who wanted to hear tracks that were like his earlier material.He said: “For years (the fans) were like ‘Yeah we want stuff to sound like the first album again, give us Plus! “So I put out Afterglow at Christmas just as a kind of…’here you go’ and the reaction was ‘eh’.”He added: “People liked it but it was like ‘this is just what you’ve done before’.”.
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