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.
Ed Sheeran earned £70million last year despite taking a break from music
thesun.co.ukHE’LL go down as a music legend . . . and Ed Sheeran has the pay to show for it. Ed made an incredible £70.4milllion last year through his touring firm.
And that’s not including his song recording company, which banked another £48.1million. It means his fortune is set to overtake that of greats including Beatles drummer Ringo Starr and The Rolling Stones’ Keith Richards.
And all of this in a year Ed took off. Documents filed at Companies House reveal turnover of more than £70million and profits of £37million through Nathan Cable Touring.
It banked nearly £200,000 a day in the year ending March 31, 2020. The figures follow the record-breaking Divide tour, which finished in Ed’s hometown of Ipswich in August 2019.
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