ED SHEERAN NAMED UK's NO.1 ARTIST OF THE DECADE
Ed Sheeran, a British singer-songwriter has been named the UK’s Official Number 1 Artist of the Decade after a record-breaking run of hits, according to the Official Charts Company. Shape of You, his hit single spent 14 weeks at No. 1 in Britain in 2017 and it was named top song in the last 10 years. Sheeran also won the Official Chart Record Breaker award for the most number 1 singles and albums from 2010-2019. The company that compiles Britain’s weekly charts noted that Sheeran’s releases spent 79 weeks in the top spot over that period. Paul McCartney and Justin Bieber were previous recipients of that award. Martin Talbot, chief executive of the Official Charts Company said that at that start of the decade, Sheeran was a little known (albeit highly rated) young 18-year-old lad from Suffolk but his catalogue of achievements since then are genuinely remarkable. In 2011, Sheeran first entered the UK charts with debut single The A Team. Following that, he h