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.
Finneas named as world’s number one songwriter on Spotify in 2020
nme.comFinneas has been named in a new report as the number one songwriter on Spotify in 2020.The data has been compiled by the music rights data platform Blokur for their 2020 songwriters report, which is set to be published in full next week.As Music Business Worldwide reports, one of Blokur’s songwriter charts – which take into account factors such as the success of songs on streaming charts and the percentage of a song that a songwriter is credited with writing – has named Finneas as the top songwriter behind the biggest songs of last year on Spotify.Finneas tops the list ahead of XXXTentacion and his sister Billie Eilish, while Juice WRLD and Ed Sheeran round out the top five.Here's a 2nd sneak peek at our upcoming #2020SongwritersReview.
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