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 holds firm at Official Irish Singles Chart top spot with Shivers
officialcharts.comEd Sheeran retains the Number 1 spot on this week’s Official Irish Singles Chart with Shivers. The second single from the British megastar’s fifth studio album = makes it two weeks at the top, and was this week honoured as the first recipient of the ’s Official Irish Singles Chart Number 1 Award. “Shivers has gone Number 1 – thank you so much for this.
It feels so good coming back after so long and have everyone love the songs like this. Thank you so much. I will see you next year on tour.
Nice one!” Ed Sheeran is the first artist to be presented with an IRMA Number 1 Award for a chart-topping single, joining Dublin group Inhaler who were the inaugural holders of the award for a Number 1 album for their chart-topping debut It Won’t Always
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