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.
Record number of artists and tracks accumulate multi-million annual streams in UK - including hits by Ed Sheeran, Tion Wayne & Russ Millions and Glass Animals
officialcharts.comNew analysis from the BPI – the UK association of independent and major record labels – reveals that a record number of tracks hit eight-figure annual stream totals in 2021.
The report - based on Official Charts Company data and published in The BPI's annual yearbook All About The Music 2022 - shows that almost 20,000 tracks were streamed a million times or more in 2021.
At the same time, just under 1,800 tracks were streamed more than 10 million times on audio streaming services in the UK last year – almost 25 times higher than the number of tracks that reached the same threshold in 2014.
And, as the UK streaming market grows, streaming success is spread across more artists and tracks than ever before; with songs from the likes of Ed Sheeran, Mimi Webb, Glass Animals and Tion Wayne & Russ Millions proving hugely successful.
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