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The BPI announces that Ed Sheeran's huge hit single, Shape of You has achieved 5x Platinum status in the UK. Only Elton John’s Candle In The Wind '97 and Band Aid's Do They Know It's Christmas? have now sold more copies in the UK. Since its release in January, Shape Of You has spent 14 non-consecutive weeks at the top of the Official Singles Chart, has been streamed over 224m times and been downloaded nearly 765,000 times.
Angele David-Guillou releases a new LP, En Mouvement, on Village Green Records in the UK.
100 Taylor Swift fans attend a 'secret listening party' in London, England, UK, Europe, to hear Swift's upcoming album Reputation in advance of its release.
At the Live UK Music Business Awards in the Radisson Blu Portman Hotel, London, England, UK, Europe, The Spectacle Of The Year Award is won by Ed Sheeran at The O2; Radiohead at Glastonbury Festival win for the Best Festival Performance, and Public Service Broadcasting win as Breakthough Artiste.
Liam Gallagher's debut LP, As You Were, enters the Official UK Albums Chart at No1 on sales of 103,000, outselling the rest of the top 10 of the chart combined. It also achieves the highest single-week vinyl sales in twenty years, with 16,000.