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.
For the last three years in a row, the UK Christmas number one has been a sausage roll themed parody of a classic song. All of them by Ladbaby, of course, that wasn’t just a weird coincidence.
Can he make it four years in a row? Well, he’s currently the bookies’ favourite, although he’s not actually announced his intention to release another song.“You’ll have to wait and see”, he tells Metro, when asked if there will be another Ladbaby single this Christmas. “Never rule out a sausage roll at Christmas is what I would say”.So, I think we can take that to mean he’s going for it.
But he does seem a little concerned about the competition this time round. “There are so many megastars going for it this year”, he says, “Ed Sheeran, Elton John,.
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