Edward "Ed" Christopher Sheeran, MBE (born: February 17, 1991) is an English singer, songwriter, record producer, and actor.
Backstory[]
Ed was born in Halifax, West Yorkshire, England, United Kingdom. Growing up, he played instruments like the Piano and the Guitar. He then started to record music in 2004 with his friends. In the late 2000's, he started to collaborate with famous musicians like Ce Lo Green. However, he did not gain popularity until he started to release more original music in 2011. From there he appeared on some television shows where he showed some of his debut songs. Since, he has made a lot of albums and singles with acclaimed success as well being one of the most popular entertainers in history, especially in the music industry.
Channel[]
Ed Sheeran's YouTube channel was made on August 8, 2006, but didn't start to "take off" until he hit around 10 million subscribers on January 7, 2017. Since then, it was one of the fastest growing channels in total views and subscribers during 2017-2018.
At that time, the channel was barely in YouTube's top 100 most subscribed and viewed channels. But since then, the channel has skyrocketed to the 28th most subscribed channel and 30th most viewed YouTube channel of all time, with Ed Sheeran being the most subscribed and viewed YouTube musician not apart of the Vevo network and the second most subscribed musician overall behind Justin Bieber.
Some of it's videos has made it to to the top of the most liked and viewed YouTube videos of all time including Ed's singles such as "Thinking Out Loud" and "Shape Of You".
The channel is currently owned by Warner Music Group.
Discography[]
- + (2011)
- × (2014)
- ÷ (2017)
- No.6 Collaborations Project (2019)
- = (2021)
- − (2023)
- Autumn Variations (2023)
Tours[]
Headlining act[]
- + Tour (2011–13)
- × Tour (2014–15)
- ÷ Tour (2017–19)
- +–=÷× Tour (2022–24)
- - Tour (2023)
Opening act[]
- Snow Patrol's Fallen Empires Tour (North American select dates) (2012)
- Taylor Swift's The Red Tour (all North American dates) (2013)
- The Rolling Stones' Zip Code Tour (Kansas City only)
Subscriber milestones[]
Note: The following dates are according to Social Blade. Dates may vary by one or two days due to differences in time zones.
- 1 million subscribers: March 9, 2013
- 2 million subscribers: November 20, 2013
- 3 million subscribers: August 10, 2014
- 4 million subscribers: December 16, 2014
- 5 million subscribers: February 22, 2015
- 6 million subscribers: May 15, 2015
- 7 million subscribers: August 22, 2015
- 8 million subscribers: January 14, 2016
- 9 million subscribers: July 17, 2016
- 10 million subscribers: January 7, 2017
- 11 million subscribers: January 30, 2017
- 12 million subscribers: February 18, 2017
- 13 million subscribers: March 5, 2017
- 14 million subscribers: March 20, 2017
- 15 million subscribers: April 8, 2017
- 16 million subscribers: May 1, 2017
- 17 million subscribers: May 21, 2017
- 18 million subscribers: June 15, 2017
- 19 million subscribers: July 15, 2017
- 20 million subscribers: August 14, 2017
- 21 million subscribers: September 17, 2017
- 22 million subscribers: October 21, 2017
- 23 million subscribers: November 17, 2017
- 24 million subscribers: December 7, 2017
- 25 million subscribers: December 24, 2017
- 26 million subscribers: January 12, 2018
- 27 million subscribers: January 24, 2018
- 28 million subscribers: February 18, 2018
- 29 million subscribers: March 20, 2018
- 30 million subscribers: April 21, 2018
- 31 million subscribers: May 19, 2018
- 32 million subscribers: June 24, 2018
- 33 million subscribers: July 31, 2018
- 34 million subscribers: September 10, 2018
- 35 million subscribers: October 25, 2018
- 36 million subscribers: December 19, 2018
- 37 million subscribers: February 10, 2019
- 38 million subscribers: April 8, 2019
- 39 million subscribers: May 19, 2019
- 40 million subscribers: June 27, 2019
- 41 million subscribers: July 24, 2019
- 42 million subscribers: September 16, 2019
- 43 million subscribers: December 16, 2019
- 44 million subscribers: March 29, 2020
- 45 million subscribers: July 14, 2020
- 46 million subscribers: November 8, 2020
- 47 million subscribers: February 28, 2021
- 48 million subscribers: July 5, 2021
- 49 million subscribers: October 3, 2021
- 50 million subscribers: November 12, 2021
- 51 million subscribers: January 24, 2022
- 52 million subscribers: June 15, 2022
- 53 million subscribers: February 18, 2023
- 54 million subscribers: December 22, 2023
- 55 million subscribers: August 10, 2024
Video view milestones[]
- 1 billion views: January 17, 2015
- 2 billion views: August 27, 2015
- 3 billion views: June 21, 2016
- 4 billion views: February 5, 2017
- 5 billion views: March 13, 2017
- 6 billion views: April 16, 2017
- 7 billion views: May 29, 2017
- 8 billion views: July 17, 2017
- 9 billion views: September 14, 2017
- 10 billion views: November 28, 2017
- 11 billion views: December 27, 2017
- 12 billion views: February 9, 2018
- 13 billion views: April 24, 2018
- 14 billion views: July 21, 2018
- 15 billion views: October 27, 2018
- 16 billion views: February 14, 2019
- 17 billion views: June 18, 2019
- 18 billion views: September 12, 2019
- 19 billion views: January 18, 2020
- 20 billion views: May 19, 2020
- 21 billion views: October 13, 2020
- 22 billion views: March 3, 2021
- 23 billion views: March 19, 2021
- 24 billion views: July 25, 2021
- 25 billion views: October 30, 2021
- 26 billion views: December 28, 2021
- 27 billion views: April 20, 2022
- 28 billion views: August 26, 2022
- 29 billion views: January 18, 2023
- 30 billion views: May 23, 2023
- 31 billion views: November 4, 2023
- 32 billion views: April 4, 2024
Trivia[]
- He had been on many magazine covers.
- He has the number one streamed song of Spotify.
- Ed Sheeran is the only channel to have 3 videos in the top 20 most liked YouTube videos.
- He is also the first to get 3 videos above 10 million likes, achieving this in 2019.
