Ed Sheeran at No. 1
E d Sheeran’s ‘Thinking Out Loud’ became the slowest and longest climber to the top of the UK singles chart. Since debuting at the No: 26 position, the r&b track took 19 weeks to make it to the No: 1 spot. The previous slowest climber to the No:1 position on the UK chart was ‘Think Twice’ by Celine Dion in 1994 with took 13 weeks. ‘Thinking Out Loud’ climbed up one notch to take the UK singles crown from Meghan Trainor’s ‘All About The Bass’. Ed Sheeran’s chart topping is the second career No: 1 for the 23 year singer and song writer on home ground after ‘Sing’ topped the chart in June. ‘Thinking Out Loud’ is accompanied by the wonderful video clip which helped the song on its slow journey to the top of the chart. Sheeran co-wrote the song with Amy Wadge and it was produced by Jake Gosling. In its 19 weeks on the chart ‘Thinking Out Loud’ has sold over 365,000 copies, 89,000 in the last week alone. The track is the third top 10 hit from his current album ‘ X’. It appears ‘Thinking Out Loud’ may become a much in demand play at weddings and perhaps Valentine’s Day in the years ahead. T he only new entry on the UK top 10 this week is “Wicked Games” at No: 6. The German producer has pumped up a dance version of the haunting Chris Issak original of 1990 which peaked at No: 10 at the time. The current version features the vocals of Anna Natlab. O
“Steal My Girl”, which dropped out of the top 10 last week returned to the No: 7 spot on the strength of the video release. P
new album in 20 years ‘The Endless River’ has become Amazon’s most pre-ordered album of all time according to reports. It has overtaken One Direction’s 2013 record for ‘Midnight Memories’. The new album will be released tomorrow, 10th November. D
is to release his sixth album ‘Listen’ on November 24. The album will contain 18 t tracks featuring some t top vocalist and some budding ones too. Among them are Sam Martin, who has already rolled out a No:1 hit from the album ‘Lovers On The Sun’, Skylar Grey on the hit ‘Shot Me Down’, with others such as Sia, Emali Sande, Ms. Dynamite, The Script, Nico & Vinz, Nicki Minaj, Magic and Ryan Tedder of One Republic. T
has decided to donate a all proceeds from her n new single ‘Welcome To New York’ to help fund the city’s public school. Swift, who has now moved over to the Big Apple, has also been appointed to a new post of spokesperson on tourism for the city. J
who was one of the founding fathers of funk, and the ‘Godfather of Soul’, is to have 126th Street in Harlem, New York named as James Brown Way. The road naming will take place on November 22 attended by Brown’s relatives with the civil rights activist Rev. Al Sharpton making an address. James Brown died at the age of 73 in December 2006.