{"id":156337,"date":"2025-09-20T04:27:10","date_gmt":"2025-09-20T04:27:10","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/156337\/"},"modified":"2025-09-20T04:27:10","modified_gmt":"2025-09-20T04:27:10","slug":"ed-sheeran-achieves-prestigious-record-after-release-of-new-album","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/156337\/","title":{"rendered":"Ed Sheeran achieves prestigious record after release of new album"},"content":{"rendered":"

Ed Sheeran<\/a> has scored a record-equalling ninth number one album this week.<\/p>\n

His new album, Play, soared to the top of the charts after release last Friday.<\/p>\n

He has now matched British greats Bob Dylan<\/a>, Take That<\/a> and Stereophonics<\/a> on the list of artists with the most UK number 1 albums<\/a> ever, according to the Official Charts Company.<\/p>\n

Sheeran also went to number with last year\u2019s +-=\u00f7X (Tour Collection), after both his album named \u2013 and Autumn Variations also took the top spot in 2023.<\/p>\n

These followed + in 2011, X in 2014, \u00f7 in 2017, No.6 Collaborations Project in 2019 as well as 2021\u2019s =.<\/p>\n

\"Sheeran<\/p>\n

Sheeran has now matched Bob Dylan, Take That and Stereophonics on the list of artists with the most UK number 1 albums ever (John Walton\/PA Wire)<\/p>\n

In third position in the albums chart this week is another new entry \u2013 That\u2019s Showbiz Baby! by former Little Mix singer Jade, which is also the best-selling album of the past seven days in independent UK record shops.<\/p>\n

Sabrina Carpenter\u2019s Man\u2019s Best Friend is in second place, while fourth and fifth place are taken by American duo Twenty One Pilots with Breach and Sophie Ellis-Bexter\u2019s Perimenopop respectively.<\/p>\n

It marks Ellis-Bextor\u2019s sixth top 10 album overall, after she first burst onto the music scene with 2001 debut Read My Lips.<\/p>\n

Ellis-Bextor said: \u201cI\u2019m all about making people feel part of the party. This album\u2019s called Perimenopop, but I think everybody can sometimes feel like they need to flip the script on the gloomy.<\/p>\n

\u201cIt\u2019s an album designed to put a little bit of a spring in your step, and it\u2019s so nice to have done it with such a lovely, extraordinary, wise, interesting and rich community.\u201d<\/p>\n

Fictional K-pop band Huntr\/x topped the singles chart for a seventh week with their smash hit song Golden, which features in the Netflix animated musical fantasy film KPop Demon Hunters.<\/p>\n

Two other songs from the film also make the top five \u2013 Saja Boys\u2019 anthems Soda Pop at number three, and Your Idol at five.<\/p>\n

Olivia Dean\u2019s Man I Need takes second place in the chart, while her track Nice To Each Other also jumps two places this week to number six.<\/p>\n

Carpenter also has three more of her tracks, Tears (four), Manchild (eight) and When Did You Get Hot? (nine) in the top 10.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Ed Sheeran has scored a record-equalling ninth number one album this week. His new album, Play, soared to…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":156338,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[28],"tags":[20524,49,48,14649,75,82077,341,17368,37898,82078],"class_list":["post-156337","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-music","tag-bob-dylan","tag-ca","tag-canada","tag-ed-sheeran","tag-entertainment","tag-list-of-artists","tag-music","tag-sabrina-carpenter","tag-stereophonics","tag-uk-record-shops"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/156337","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=156337"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/156337\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/156338"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=156337"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=156337"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=156337"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}