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.
Simon Cowell pockets astonishing £45MILLION windfall – one of the biggest in celeb history
thesun.co.ukSIMON Cowell has pocketed an astonishing £45.3million windfall — one of the biggest in celebrity history. Accounts for The X Factor mogul’s company Syco Holdings for the 12 months to March this year reveal that he received £45,358,391.
The payout to the king of entertainment is more than double the £21.4million singer Ed Sheeran paid himself for 2020. And it is more than three times the £14.5million the Beckhams shared in 2019.A source said: “Simon may not have been on screen but his busy empire globally goes from strength to strength. “It is clear from these figures that his influence in the entertainment industry is still vast.” The cash swells the personal wealth of Cowell, 62, to more than £400million.
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