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10 Records Ed Sheeran's 'Divide' Set Or Smashed This Week

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Friday, March 10, 2017 - 18:10

This week, one little mathematics symbol, ÷, has drawn some INCREDIBLE numbers. We are of course talking about Ed Sheeran's 'Divide' dominating every chart in existence this week.

Not only has Divide become the fastest-selling album by a male artist of all time, he's managed to slip every single song from it into The Official UK Singles Chart Top 20.

They're just two of the feats he's achieved. Today Spotify commented: "It's fair to say that Ed Sheeran nearly broke Spotify this week." That's putting it lightly. 

Undoubtedly there's loads of records he's smashed this week but here's just a handful of the ones he's either set or obliterated. Bow down. Bow down lowwww...

10 Records Ed Sheeran's Divide Set Or Smashed In It's First Week Of Release

  • Ed Sheeran's ÷ obliterated the UK charts in its first week on sale. Here's just some of the many records it smashed in the 7 days since it was released...
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  • Ed smashed Spotify's ‘first day’ streams for an album with over 56 million (almost doubling the record set by The Weeknd’s ‘Starboy’ at 29m)
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  • Ed broke their best ‘one day’ streams for an artist at over 68 million (again, storming past The Weeknd, whom set the record previously with 40.3m)
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  • Ed landed their highest ‘one day’ streams for a track – a record Ed has continued to break week on week with “Shape Of You”, peaked at 10.1 million as of 3rd March 2017.
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  • He had the best FIRST WEEK streams for an album on Spotify, with 374m streams worldwide
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  • He gave Spotify their best ONE WEEK streams for an ALBUM, with 374m streams worldwide
    Ed Sheeran / Shape Of You
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  • By the week's end ÷ became the fastest-selling album by a male artist ever with a combined sales total of 672,000
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  • Ed had the biggest one-week vinyl album sale in more than 20 years
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  • All 16 songs on ÷ landed inside the Top 20, something that no artist has come close to achieving before
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  • Ed also held the entire Top 5 on the Official Singles Chart, again the first time an act has ever achieved this.
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  • He also set a new record for the landing the most Top 10 singles from one album (10), beating Calvin Harris' previous record of nine tracks from 18 Months
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