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...

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)

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)

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.

He had the best FIRST WEEK streams for an album on Spotify, with 374m streams worldwide

He gave Spotify their best ONE WEEK streams for an ALBUM, with 374m streams worldwide

By the week's end ÷ became the fastest-selling album by a male artist ever with a combined sales total of 672,000

Ed had the biggest one-week vinyl album sale in more than 20 years

All 16 songs on ÷ landed inside the Top 20, something that no artist has come close to achieving before

Ed also held the entire Top 5 on the Official Singles Chart, again the first time an act has ever achieved this.

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