Fact #156962

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.