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Ed Sheeran shifts a shit load of records, official

By | Published on Tuesday 2 December 2014

Ed Sheeran

So it’s official, Ed Sheeran has sold more than a million copies of ‘X’ (that’s ‘Multiply’ remember) here in the UK, making him the first artist to sell over a million units of an album within one calendar year since that Emeli Sande in 2012. And Ed’s “fuckin buzzin” about the news. Yep, that’s his official response.

Which is all you need to know really. But oh look, and bunch of other chancers have gatecrashed the party insisting they contribute a quote.

First there’s Ben Cook, President of Sheeran’s label Atlantic Records UK, who wants his moment of glory, musing out loud: “Ed is a phenomenal artist at the top of his game and his album reaching this impressive milestone so quickly only serves to underline that. ‘X’ is Ed at his original and inventive best – we’re absolutely thrilled for him that it joins ‘+’ in the ranks of the million-sellers and are delighted that so many people love it as much as we do”.

Oh, and here’s Official Charts Company CEO Martin Talbot also insisting on saying some words: “What an incredible year for Ed Sheeran – having the best-selling and longest-running number one album of 2014 so far, two number one singles, and now ‘X’ hitting the million album sales mark in the space of just a few months. 2014 has well and truly belonged to the Suffolk lad”.

And as if that wasn’t enough quotage (it was), here’s BPI spokesman Gennaro Castaldo, who we are only letting in to this speech giving because we kind of feel nostalgic for the days when every chart stat came with a customary remark from what was then “HMV’s Gennaro Castaldo”.

“The million-selling success of ‘X’ confirms Ed Sheeran’s arrival as a global superstar” he says. “Ed is breaking chart records for fun at the moment, which should come as no surprise given his songs clearly connect with fans in such a profound way”.

But enough of all that. All you need to know is Ed Sheeran’s sold a shit load of records and he’s “fuckin buzzin” off it.



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