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.
Harry Styles and Ed Sheeran have stormed the charts as the biggest songs and albums of the year so far have been revealed. According to data from OfficialCharts.com, Harry’s single As It Was overtook strong competition from Disney’s Encanto film, which previously held the biggest single of the year with We Don’t Talk About Bruno.
As It Was is the lead single from Harry’s third album, Harry’s House, and logged a huge 10 weeks at the top of the Official Singles chart, making it the longest-running number one of the year so far.
The single also racked up 95million streams and was also the most physically purchased (11,000 units) and digitally downloaded (33,000 units) song of the year so far in the UK.The second place slot was taken by Afrobeats legend Fireboy DML and Ed Sheeran with Peru, which peaked at number two on the Official Singles Chart, having been beaten by We Don’t Talk About Bruno, which comes in at the third biggest song of 2022 so far.
Driven by the success of the movie Encanto, the song is by far the most-streamed track of the year to date in the UK with 110 million streams overall, including 36 million video streams, the most for any song so far in 2022.Ed also proved his chart power by racking up three entries in the top 10 singles, with Bad Habits at number four and Shivers at number six as well.
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