45rpm 180g Vinyl Double LP! Features the Single "Sing!"

2016 Grammy Award Winner!
• Song Of the Year: Thinking Out Loud
• Best Pop Solo Performance: Thinking Out Loud

2015 Grammy Award Nominee for:
• Album Of the Year
• Best Pop Vocal Album



Ed Sheeran's album "x" (read as multiply) is the singer/songwriter's  second studio album. The lead single "Sing", which was inspired by Justin Timberlake, features production and additional vocals from Pharrell Williams.

Ed Sheeran is blessed - he seems to know exactly where he is going, and exactly  how to get there. Where countless others fail to make an impression amid today's  information overload, Ed's music and talent cut straight through. He has a poise  that is as welcome as it is unusual in someone so young. He's both utterly  self-assured but still charmingly open.

When asked to conform or "assimilate", Ed chose to make his own way in the music  business. He wrote the cult song, ‘You Need Me, I Don't Need You', and over the  next year, he released five EPs, each one totally different, each one totally  him. There was a singer-songwriter one, a live from The Bedford one, one written  with singer Amy Wadge. Each sold better than the last.

After two years of constant gigging and sofa surfing, Ed recorded a live version  of ‘You Need Me, I Don't Need You' for leading urban YouTube channel, SBTV. The  clip got 100K hits in two days and is now approaching 1.5M views. A few days  later, he wrote what would become his first major label release, ‘The A Team': a  story about a girl he met whilst working at a homeless shelter which has since  surpassed 1M views.

By the time Ed released the final EP - No. 5 Collaborations, which featured the  who's who of UK hip hop and grime: Devlin, Wretch 32, Dot Rotten, P Money, JME  and Wiley, the support was so strong it propelled Ed to Number 2 in the iTunes  album chart after just 24 hours. The only artist selling more copies was Rihanna.  When Elton John called his mobile to congratulate him, Ed realized quite how big  things had got. Amid interest from numerous labels Ed shortly signed with Asylum  - part of Atlantic Records.

Ed Sheeran Awards:
• 2012 Brit Award Winner for Breakthrough Artist and British Male Solo Artist
• Q Awards Best Breakthrough (won)
• iTunes Breakthrough 2011 (won)
• Q Awards Best Video (nomination)
• Q Awards Best Male (nomination)

Features:
• 45rpm 180g Vinyl
• Double LP

Selections:
LP 1 - Side A:
1. One
2. I'm A Mess
3. Sing
LP 1 - Side B:
1. Don't
2. Nina
3. Photograph

LP 2 - Side C:
1. Bloodstream
2. Tenerife Sea
3. Runaway
LP 2 - Side D:
1. The Man
2. Thinking Out Loud
3. Afire Love