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 secures fastest-selling album of 2023 so far with Subtract
officialcharts.comEd Sheeran extends his flawless run of chart-topping albums as – (Subtract) debuts at Number 1 on the Official Albums Chart.
The singer-songwriter’s sixth studio album becomes the fastest-selling album of 2023 so far, shifting a mammoth 76,000 chart units in its opening week, with 71% of its total made up of physical copies and a further 10% on digital downloads.
It’s also the best-selling vinyl album of the week. Subtract also sees Ed edge ahead of The 1975 in the list of acts to have reached the summit with all of their studio albums, now boasting six to the latter’s five.
Prior to this, Ed celebrated Number 1 success with + (2011), x (2014), ÷ (2017), No. 6 Collaborations Project (2019) and = (2021).
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