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.
Atlantic Records Launches Cross-Roster Voter Registration Initiative With HeadCount: Exclusive
billboard.com"With the 2020 election shaping up to be the most consequential of our lifetime, it’s crucial," says ATLVotes co-chair Jack Hedges.
In January, a group of Atlantic Records employees including Canvasback label imprint vp of marketing Jack Hedges formed a company task force to develop a plan for utilizing Atlantic's star-studded artist roster, which includes the likes of Cardi B, Ed Sheeran and Meek Mill, to encourage voter registration.
A global pandemic later, "You can imagine, the ideas and plans we were formulating were very different from where we are now," Hedges tells Billboard.
But the goal -- to inspire more young people to vote in both local and presidential elections -- is as urgent as ever. That's why today (July 16), Atlantic
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