Ed Sheeran’s new album! By Darcey and Charlotte Ed Sheeran was born on February 17th, 1991, in Halifax, west Yorkshire in the United Kingdom. When he was young, he began playing guitar, showing early promise as a musical talent. His first album was plus ‘+’ his first song was out loud; he has written 120 songs. When he was younger he had a stutter he and his dad tried so many ways to get rid of it but they couldn’t a few days after his dad brought him an album with lots of rap songs on it, he learnt the words and wouldn’t stop rapping the songs and it finally got rid of his stutter. He has just released his new album divide, the album debuted at number one in the United Kingdom, selling 672,000 units in its first week, making it the fastest-selling album by a male artist there and the third-highest opening behind Adele’s 25 and oasis' Be Here now, It also topped the charts in 14 countries, including the United States, Canada, and Australia. "Castle on a hill" and "Shape of you", the album's lead singles, were issued on 6 January 2017.Sheeran teased the tracks on social media during the week leading up to their release, posting instrumental extracts and each song's opening lyric. All the songs are very different their Irish songs slow songs fast songs all of them are different but there all catchy and can make you love the songs straight away. His song “castle on a hill” was written about taking his children to his home town, and when he was younger. His success has global reach since the Brit's album is also expected to achieve the biggest first week sales of the year so far in the US. Ed previously reveals he hopes to beat Adele in terms of album sales, revealing that she is the 'benchmark' for the type of global success he wants to achieve. Ed explained on the Chris Evans Breakfast show on Friday morning that devising this structure help him in creating new songs. Ed even put himself out there on Twitter and asked for opinions on the full album after its release; he has received mostly positive response from fans around the world. .