Who is Ed Sheeran?
A: Ed Sheeran is an English singer-songwriter.
What is Ed’s full name?
A: Edward Christopher Sheeran.
When was he born?
A: February 17, 1991.
Where was he born?
A: In Halifax, West Yorkshire.
Where was he raised?
A: In Framlingham, Suffolk.
How old was he when he began writing songs?
A: Around the age of eleven.
In early 2011, Sheeran independently released what?
A: The extended play, No. 5 Collaborations Project.
He signed with whom the same year?
A: Asylum Records.
Sheeran's debut album, + (pronounced "plus"), was
released in September 2011 and topped what?
A: The UK Albums Chart.
It contained his first what?
A: His first hit single "The A Team".
In 2012, Sheeran won the Brit Awards for what?
A: Best British Male Solo Artist and British Breakthrough Act.
What was Sheeran's second studio album?
A: × (pronounced "multiply").
It was named what?
A: The second-best-selling album worldwide of 2015.
In the same year, × won Album of the Year at what?
A: The 2015 Brit Awards, and he received the Ivor Novello Award for
Songwriter of the Year from the British Academy of Songwriters, Composers
and Authors.
A single from ×, "Thinking Out Loud", earned him what?
A: The 2016 Grammy Awards for Song of the Year and Best Pop Solo
Performance.
Sheeran's third album, ÷ (pronounced "divide"), was
released when?
A: In March 2017, and was the best-selling album worldwide of 2017.
The first two singles from the album, "Shape of You"
and "Castle on the Hill", broke records in a number of countries by doing
what?
A: By debuting in the top two positions of the charts.
He also became the first artist to have two songs debut
in what?
A: The US top 10 in the same week.
By March 2017, Sheeran had accumulated ten top 10
singles from ÷ on the UK Singles Chart, breaking the record for what?
A: The most top 10 UK singles from one album.
His fourth single from ÷, "Perfect", reached number one
in the US, Australia and the UK, where it became what?
A: The Christmas number one in 2017.
The world's best-selling artist of 2017, he was named
what?
A: The Global Recording Artist of the Year.
Released in 2019, his fourth studio album No.6
Collaborations Project debuted at number one in most major markets, and
spawned what?
A: Three UK number one singles, "I Don't Care", "Beautiful People" and "Take
Me Back to London".
His fifth studio album, = (pronounced "equals"), topped
the charts in most major markets in what year?
A: 2021.
Sheeran has sold how many records worldwide?
A: More than 150 million, making him one of the world's best-selling music
artists.
He has 101 million RIAA-certified units in the US, and
two of his albums are in the list of the what?
A: Best-selling albums in UK chart
history.
In December 2019, the Official Charts Company named him
what?
A: Artist of the decade, with the most combined success in the UK album and
singles charts in the 2010s.
Globally, Spotify named him what?
A: The second most streamed artist of the decade.
Beginning in March 2017, his ÷ Tour became what?
A: The highest-grossing of all time in August 2019.
An alumnus of the National Youth Theatre in London,
Sheeran's acting roles include appearing in what film?
A: The 2019 film Yesterday.