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.
Freya Ridings celebrates her return to the UK Top 40 with Weekends: "I've been so many versions of myself, you evolve so quickly in your 20s"
officialcharts.comFreya Ridings is back! Last week, her glamorous and shimmering new single, Weekends, entered the Official Singles Chart at Number 31, netting Freya her third UK Top 40 single, and first in nearly four years.
A sophisticated post-disco track produced by hitmaker to the stars Steve Mac (Ed Sheeran, Little Mix), Weekends is the perfect introduction to Freya's forthcoming second album, Blood Orange.
After her 2019 self-titled debut contained two Top 20 singles (Top 10 hit Lost Without You and the inescapable radio smash Castles), Freya has taken her time with her sophomore record, what she classes as a "break up and then a make up" record about her relationship with her now-husband (they broke up and got back together, as all good rom-coms begin and end).
Weekends is very much the peacock at the start of the album's journey, finding Freya in the mists of dread and sadness during her breakup, where her creative solitude is broken through with a bracing post-disco production. "I don't really have friends," she says, "don't go out on weekends.
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