Moving from place to place, he performed at open-mic nights across the United Kingdom, where he would sleep on his friends' sofas spending time self-releasing homemade EPs and albums. Sheeran performing at Academy 1 in Manchester.Īfter completing school at age 16, Sheeran spent his student grant on rail tickets. + is the ninth best-selling album of the 2010s in the United Kingdom. The album was the highest debut for a British artist's first studio album in the US since Susan Boyle's I Dreamed a Dream in 2009. The album performed well on the US Billboard 200, peaking at number five, selling 42,000 copies. Upon release, + debuted atop of the UK Albums Chart with first-week sales exceeding 102,000 copies. The album was met with generally positive reviews from music critics. Worldwide, the album has sold more than 4 million copies. Three additional singles-' Drunk', ' Small Bump', and ' Give Me Love'-were released throughout the year, all charting within the top 25 of the UK Singles Chart. ' Lego House' was released on 11 November 2011 as the album's third single and matched the chart success of its predecessors, peaking at number five in the UK. Media interest surrounding + was heightened by its two preceding singles-' The A Team' and ' You Need Me, I Don't Need You'-which peaked at numbers three and four on the UK Singles Chart, respectively. Jake Gosling and Sheeran produced the majority of the album, with additional production by American hip hop producer No I.D. He previously released five EPs independently. The album is considered Sheeran's commercial breakthrough. It was released on 9 September 2011 by Asylum Records and Atlantic Records.

+ (pronounced 'plus') is the debut studio album by English singer-songwriter Ed Sheeran.

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