A melancholy anthem in the vein of “Castle on the Hill,” this is a thematic outlier as, nestled among the many declarations of love to Sheeran’s wife and newborn daughter, it recounts a breakup. While that song stands out as the album’s slickest, most immediate pop offering, “Overpass Graffiti” comes a close second. Impressively, the 30-year-old followed it up with an even better bop called “Shivers.” The smash hit, which has been streamed more than 600 million times on Spotify alone, is the album’s “Shape of You,” a song so ubiquitous that it doesn’t really make any sense to resist it. With “Bad Habits,” Sheeran proved equally adept at orchestrating synths as he is strumming an acoustic guitar. 6 Collaborations Project,” “=” brings the chart-topping Brit to the club. Building on his flirtation with dance music on “No.
Sheeran knows his way around a catchy chorus as well as anyone and the stripped-back moments are just sincere enough to tug at your heartstrings.īut let’s start with the new ingredient: Sheeran’s blossoming love of the banger. As with previous entries in the superstar’s arithmetic operator series (“+,” “x” and “%”), “=” is engineered to please as many people as possible. Simply combine inoffensive ballads with up-tempo pop songs, before seasoning with a dash of something new to feign growth - in this case, synth-pop.
In 2015, x won the Brit Award for British Album of the Year, and at the 57th Grammy Awards, it was nominated for Best Pop Vocal Album and Album of the Year.Ed Sheeran has perfected the recipe for a mega-selling album. The album has been certified 3× Platinum in Canada, 6× Platinum in New Zealand, and 2x Platinum in the US. x has been certified 10× Platinum in the UK with sales of over 2.7 million copies, making it one of the best-selling albums in the history of the UK, and the sixth best-selling album of the decade in the UK.
In December 2014, Spotify named x the most-streamed album of 2014. x was the best selling album of 2014 in Australia, New Zealand, Ireland, and the United Kingdom. It was an international success in its first week on sale, charting at number one in twelve countries, topping both the UK Albums Chart and the US Billboard 200, and reaching the top 5 in eleven other countries. It was released worldwide on June 23, 2014. X (pronounced “ multiply”) is the second studio album by English singer-songwriter Ed Sheeran.
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