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.
Taylor Swift turned down offer to perform at King Charles’ Coronation, new book claims
nme.comTaylor Swift had allegedly turned down an invitation to perform at King Charles’ Coronation concert back in May.The claims of the pop star turning down the offer come from royal expert Omid Scobie’s new book, Endgame: Inside the Royal Family and the Monarchy’s Fight for Survival.
Scobie did not specify any reason as to why the ‘London Boy’ singer had declined the invitation but she did have a show as part of her ‘Eras’ tour the same day as the coronation concert in Nashville, Tennessee.King Charles was crowned as the new monarch on May 6, 2023 which was the day after he took over the title from the late Queen Elizabeth II who died last year.
Artists such as Ed Sheeran, Adele, Robbie Williams, Harry Styles and the Spice Girls all turned down the invitation to performIn his book, Scobie noted that while these refusals “may seem frivolous”, they are also a sign of “something deeper at work”.He also suggested that the lack of artists wanting to perform at the coronation might be an indicator that Charles is not as popular as his late mother, Queen Elizabeth II, citing the star-studded line-up at her Platinum Jubilee celebrations.“Charles just doesn’t have the requisite gravitas, which is understandable, given he’s spent a majority of his life in the wake of the grand-class cruise ship of his mother’s reputation,” he wrote (per The Independent). “In fact, positive opinion of the royal family in the United Kingdom dropped from 68 per cent to 54 per cent within four months of the Queen’s death.“In our era of celebrity obsession and pop culture icons, if Elton and Harry Styles can’t be bothered, why should we be?”Allegedly, the new monarch was reportedly “very keen” to have Adele and Sheeran performing at his coronation but they.
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