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.
Taylor Alison Swift is an American singer-songwriter. She is known for narrative songs about her personal life, which have received widespread media coverage. At age 14, Swift became the youngest artist signed by the Sony/ATV Music publishing house and, at 15, she signed her first record deal.
Her 2006 eponymous debut album was the longest-charting album of the 2000s in the US. Its third single, "Our Song", made her the youngest person to single-handedly write and perform a number-one song on the Billboard Hot Country Songs chart. Swift's second album, Fearless, was released in 2008.
Buoyed by the pop crossover success of the singles "Love Story" and "You Belong with Me", it became the US' best-selling album of 2009 and was certified diamond in the US. The album won four Grammy Awards, and Swift became the youngest Album of the Year winner.
Kendrick Lamar, Jack Harlow and Lil Nas X lead the 2022 MTV Video Music Awards nominations with seven each, MTV announced today.
Closely following the top three are Doja Cat and Harry Styles (6 nominations each), and Billie Eilish, Drake, Dua Lipa, Ed Sheeran, Taylor Swift and The Weeknd (5 each).Swift’s five nominations are for her directorial debut on the video for “All Too Well (Taylor’s Version),” which was nominated for best longform video, cinematography, direction and editing.Also of note: With her 69th VMA nomination (for “Madame X”) Madonna becomes the only artist to be nominated in each of the five decades the VMA has existed.The 2022 VMAs will air Sunday, August 28 at 8 pmET/PT live from New Jersey’s Prudential Center.
The awards will air across MTV’s global footprint of linear and digital platforms in 170+ countries, reaching 422 million households in nearly 30 different languages.
For the third consecutive year, the VMAs will simulcast on The CW Network, in addition to BET, BET Her, CMT, Comedy Central, Logo, MTV2, Nickelodeon, Paramount Network, Pop, TVLand and VH1.The complete list of 2022 nominees is:VIDEO OF THE YEARDoja Cat – “Woman” – Kemosabe Records / RCA RecordsDrake ft.
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