{"id":119042,"date":"2025-01-04T00:02:04","date_gmt":"2025-01-04T00:02:04","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/lascrucestoday.com\/magic\/2025\/01\/04\/ed-sheeran-scores-eighth-1-uk-album-with-greatest-hits-compilation\/"},"modified":"2025-01-04T00:02:04","modified_gmt":"2025-01-04T00:02:04","slug":"ed-sheeran-scores-eighth-1-uk-album-with-greatest-hits-compilation","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lascrucestoday.com\/magic\/2025\/01\/04\/ed-sheeran-scores-eighth-1-uk-album-with-greatest-hits-compilation\/","title":{"rendered":"Ed Sheeran scores eighth #1 UK album with greatest hits compilation"},"content":{"rendered":"
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Ed Sheeran<\/strong> has scored his eighth #1 album<\/a> in his native U.K. \u2014 with a record that’s been out since September 2024.<\/p>\n

The album, +\u2013=\u00f7\u00d7 [Mathematics] (Tour Collection)<\/em><\/a>,<\/em> features Ed’s biggest hits from his “Mathematics” series of albums \u2014 Plus, Multiply, Divide, Equals<\/em> and Subtract<\/em> \u2014 as well as some of his singles from his 2019 album No. 6 Collaborations Project.<\/em> It also includes live recordings captured on his current Mathematics tour.<\/p>\n

The album initially reached #5 on the Official U.K. Album Chart, but when it was issued on vinyl for the first time over the holidays, it jumped to #1.<\/span><\/p>\n

Ed <\/span>wrote<\/span><\/a>\u00a0on Instagram, “<\/span>My 8th UK number one album. Thank you to everyone who streamed or bought it. What a way to cap off Mathematics, and what a way to start 2025. Feeling very very grateful. Happy new year folks, love you all<\/span>.”<\/span><\/p>\n

All of Ed’s studio albums have now reached number one in the U.K. In the U.S., he’s had four chart-topping albums.<\/span><\/p>\n

Ed had previously\u00a0<\/span>teased<\/span><\/a> 2025 as being “<\/span>a year of releasing, which i\u2019m very excited about.” Speaking to <\/span>Variety,<\/span><\/em><\/a> he described his next album as “big pop.”<\/span><\/p>\n

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Atlantic Records Ed Sheeran has scored his eighth #1 album in his native U.K. \u2014 with a record that’s been out since September 2024. The album, +\u2013=\u00f7\u00d7 [Mathematics] (Tour Collection), features Ed’s biggest hits from his “Mathematics” series of albums \u2014 Plus, Multiply, Divide, Equals and Subtract \u2014 as wellRead More →<\/a><\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":5,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[425,426,427],"tags":[701,702,227,527,700,490,528,276,703,648],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lascrucestoday.com\/magic\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/119042"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/lascrucestoday.com\/magic\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/lascrucestoday.com\/magic\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lascrucestoday.com\/magic\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/5"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lascrucestoday.com\/magic\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=119042"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/lascrucestoday.com\/magic\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/119042\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lascrucestoday.com\/magic\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=119042"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lascrucestoday.com\/magic\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=119042"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lascrucestoday.com\/magic\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=119042"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}