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.
New Releases
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If you're wondering, wow, a lot of big artists don't seem to be releasing music this week, well. We have two words in answer to that; Edward.
Sheeran. Tomorrow (May 5) sees the release of Ed Sheeran's next, sure-to-be-blockbuster album - (Subtract), the last entry in his Mathematics era, capping off an almost unbelievable decade which as seen Ed grow from underdog upstart to unquestionably one of the biggest and popular artists of his generation.
Co-executive produced by The National's Aaron Dessner (folklore, evermore) Subtract has been preceded by the UK Official Number 1 single Eyes Closed an outlier for much of the album, being a more up-beat offering produced by Swedish hitmakers Max Martin and Shellback (Taylor Swift, Ariana Grande).
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