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.
The Weeknd scores another U.S. chart double
hollywood.comThe Weeknd has landed a second successive week at the top of both the U.S. singles and albums charts. The Canadian star’s After Hours held off a surge from 5 Seconds of Summer’s Calm to score a second week atop the Billboard 200 on Sunday (April 5, 2020), and now his single, Blinding Lights, has claimed another week at number one on the Billboard Hot 100 songs chart. Roddy Ricch’s The Box holds at two after spending 11 weeks on top of the Hot 100 and Dua Lipa is also unmoved at three, while Post Malone’s Circles and Future and Drake’s Life is Good rounds out the top five.
Rapper Post Malone’s hit is now just two weeks shy of tying Ed Sheeran and The Chainsmokers’ run of 27 weeks in the Hot 100 top-five and two weeks away from tying his own
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