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 Reveals 2 Huge Hits That He Almost Didn't Release (1 Nearly Went to Rihanna!)
justjared.comEd Sheeran opened up about some of his songs that almost got left on the cutting room floor, and two of them wound up becoming some of his biggest hits.
The 33-year-old hitmaker shared a playlist that included six songs he wrote but considered not releasing. In a video, he explained why they were nearly left behind.
Interestingly, one of the songs wound up topping the Billboard Hot 100. However, Ed revealed that it was written for a popular girl group and then almost went to Rihanna before he decided to keep it for himself. Keep reading to find out more… The biggest songs were “Shape of You,” one of Ed‘s two songs to top the Hot 100, and “Shape of You,” which peaked at No.
2. “‘Shape of You’ almost didn’t make it because I didn’t write it for Divide, I originally wrote it for Little Mix and then I was gonna pitch it to Rihanna,” he explained in a video shared on X (formerly Twitter).
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