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

Mike Pell
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  • 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
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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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