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.
Fontaines D.C. Earn first Number 1 album in Ireland with Skinty Fia
officialcharts.comDublin band Fontaines D.C. fly straight to Number 1 with their new album Skinty Fia. Skinty Fia becomes the five-piece’s first ever Number 1 collection in Ireland, and their third Top 50, following 2019’s Dogrel which peaked at Number 4, and 2020’s A Hero’s Death which reached Number 2.
The group earn the biggest week of albums chart sales of the year so far, with 82% of their total made up of physical copies.
Skinty Fia claims the biggest first-week chart sales for an album by a homegrown act since Inhaler’s chart-topping It Won’t Always Be Like This in July 2021.
Fontaines D.C. said, “We're touched by everyone's response to Skinty Fia, thank you to everyone who bought, streamed or downloaded it.
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