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.
Coldplay score ninth consecutive UK Number One album with ‘Music Of The Spheres’
nme.comColdplay have scored their ninth consecutive UK Number One album with new LP ‘Music Of The Spheres’.The band’s new record, which arrived last week (October 15), debuted at the top spot shifting 101,000 chart sales – making it the year’s fastest-selling album, beating Dave’s ‘We’re All Alone In This Together’, which amassed 74,000 chart sales in its opening week back in July.The album is also the first release to surpass 100,000 chart sales in a week since Ed Sheeran’s ‘No.
6 Collaborations’ project sold 125,000 in July 2019.Eighty five per cent of Coldplay’s week one figures were pure sales (physical and download), including 12,400 on vinyl, meaning it has also claimed the Number One spot on the vinyl albums chart.Chris Martin and co.’s.
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