{"id":31785,"date":"2025-09-19T16:46:12","date_gmt":"2025-09-19T16:46:12","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/31785\/"},"modified":"2025-09-19T16:46:12","modified_gmt":"2025-09-19T16:46:12","slug":"ed-sheeran-keeps-streak-alive-with-play","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/31785\/","title":{"rendered":"Ed Sheeran Keeps Streak Alive With ‘Play’"},"content":{"rendered":"

\n\tEd Sheeran<\/a> extends his perfect record in Australia as Play blasts to No. 1 on the ARIA Chart.<\/p>\n

\n\tAll of Sheeran\u2019s albums have reached the summit, including Play which opens at the top of the national leaderboard, published Friday, September 19th.<\/p>\n

\n\tPlay follows Autumn Variations (from 2023), + (plus from 2012),\u202fX (multiply from 2014), \u00f7 (divide from 2017),\u202fNo. 6 Collaborations Project\u202f(2019),\u202f=\u202f(equals from 2019) and \u2013 (subtract from 2023), all of which led the all-genres ARIA Chart.<\/p>\n

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\n\tAccording to the charts compiler, Sheeran has accumulated 46 total weeks at No. 1, including an impressive 27 week with divide.<\/p>\n

\n\tAdding in special edition albums and his recent greatest hits collection, ARIA reports, Sheeran has collected upwards of 1,200 weeks on the ARIA Top 50 Albums Chart<\/a>.<\/p>\n

\n\tPlay is also the best-seller on wax, as it takes out top spot on the ARIA Vinyl Chart.<\/p>\n

\n\tAustralians have adopted Sheeran like one of their own. His Mathematics Tour in 2023 smashed several records<\/a>,\u00a0and his Divide tour in 2018, also with\u00a0Frontier Touring<\/a>, shifted more than\u00a01 million tickets<\/a>, a feat that wiped\u00a0Dire Straits<\/a>\u2019 record for a single trek (950,000) that had stood for since the 1980s.<\/p>\n

\n\tSheeran returns to these parts in the first quarter of 2026 for his Loop Tour, <\/a>which will stop by stadiums<\/a> in in Auckland, Wellington, Christchurch, Perth, Sydney, Brisbane, Melbourne, and Adelaide. Frontier Touring and MG Live, both part of the Mushroom Group, are producing the jaunt.<\/p>\n

\n\tAlso new to the latest ARIA Chart is Twenty One Pilots\u2019 Breach, the US rock band\u2019s eighth studio album<\/a>. It\u2019s new at No. 2. 21P has impacted the ARIA Top 10 on four occasions, with Blurryface (No. 7 in 2015), Trench (No. 1 for one week in 2018), Scaled And Icy (No. 3 in 2021) and Clancy (No. 1 for one week in 2024).<\/p>\n

\n\tMeanwhile, former Little Mix singer Jade bows as No. 11 with That\u2019s Showbiz Baby!, her debut solo LP. All seven of the British girl group\u2019s albums impacted the ARIA top 10, with Get Weird (from 2015) and Glory Days (2016) peaking at No. 2.<\/p>\n

\n\tThe top new domestic release belongs to Parcels, as LOVED debuts at No. 24. <\/p>\n

\n\tOn the ARIA Singles Chart<\/a>, KPop Demon Hunters hit \u201cGolden\u201d retains top spot for the eighth consecutive week, and leads an unchanged top 3, with Olivia Dean\u2019s \u201cMan I Need\u201d and Alex Warren\u2019s \u201cOrdinary\u201d respectively completing the podium.<\/p>\n

\n\tFinally, U.S. singer and songwriter Sombr scores his third ARIA top 10, as \u201c12 To 12\u201d improves 13-6. That comes on the heels of \u201cUndressed\u201d (No. 2) and \u201cBack To Friends\u201d (No. 3), all of which appear on his debut, I Barely Know Her, which is currently unmoved on the albums tally at No. 5. Sombr will embark on his first headline tour of Australia this December, for a trek produced by Frontier Touring. <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Ed Sheeran extends his perfect record in Australia as Play blasts to No. 1 on the ARIA Chart.…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":31786,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[28],"tags":[17979,156,157,111,139,69],"class_list":["post-31785","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-music","tag-bbnews","tag-entertainment","tag-music","tag-new-zealand","tag-newzealand","tag-nz"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/31785","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=31785"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/31785\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/31786"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=31785"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=31785"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=31785"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}