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.
Calvin Harris & Ellie Goulding pull ahead in the race for Number 1 with Miracle
officialcharts.comCalvin Harris and Ellie Goulding have just pulled ahead in the race for the UK’s Official Number 1 single. After weeks of waiting, Miracle now leads the charge to top the Official Singles Chart on Friday, leap-frogging past last week’s chart topper, Ed Sheeran’s Eyes Closed (3), and Miley Cyrus’s Flowers (2), the longest-running Number 1 single of the year so far.
With little over 2,000 chart units separating the Top 3, and with three full days of tracking left before the result’s finalised, it’s up to you which of these chart titans will come out on top.
If Miracle does manage to hold on this week, it would become Calvin’s 11th (the Scottish DJ’s first in nearly half a decade, since Promises with Sam Smith in 2018) and Ellie 4th UK Number 1 overall.
Check out Calvin’s Official Charts history in full, and discover Ellie’s here also. Miracle has previously peaked at Number 2 on the Official Singles Chart, being kept off the top spot during Flower's 10-week reign at the top.
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