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.
60 incredible Official Chart facts of 2020
officialcharts.com1. Stormzy claimed the Official Chart Double for the first time in his career in January, with Own It ft. Ed Sheeran & Burna Boy (single) and Heavy Is The Head (album).
No other British rapper has ever achieved this. 2. Stormzy's was the first of four Official Chart Doubles in 2020, with Eminem, Drake and Ariana Grande following suit.
3. Also that month, Sheku Kanneh-Mason became the highest-charting cellist in Official Chart history, and the first to reach the Official Albums Chart Top 10 with his collection Elgar, which peaked at Number 8.
4. Also in January, Eminem extended his record-breaking run of consecutive Number 1 albums to ten – no other act in UK chart history has managed to land as many chart-topping albums in a row.
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