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Ed Sheeran
Solo artist Halifax United Kingdom UK singer‐songwriter
Ed Sheeran is an artist from Halifax. Ed Sheeran has 15 chart appearances on 12 radio countdowns from 9 stations on RockLists, spanning 2012–2025. The most successful song on radio countdowns is “The A Team”, which appears on 5 lists with a best position of #10. The station that charted Ed Sheeran most often is 92.3 WTTS (Indianapolis-Bloomington, IN), with 3 appearances. The artist’s biggest year on year-end countdowns was 2012.
Ed Sheeran was born in Halifax, West Yorkshire, in 1991, grew up in Framlingham, Suffolk, and started writing songs at around the age of eleven. The Loose Change EP arrived in 2010, and in early 2011 he put out the No.5 Collaborations Project independently before signing with Asylum later that year. His tools are a voice, a guitar and a live looper, stacking up rhythms and harmonies on the spot.
His 2011 debut, +, topped the UK albums chart and carried "The A Team", a gentle, sorrowful ballad that became his breakout hit. In 2012 the Brits named him British Breakthrough Act and British Male Solo Artist.
Then came × in 2014, a bigger, slicker record that won the Brit for British Album of the Year. Its third single, "Thinking Out Loud", is a slow-dance soul ballad that won two Grammys, Song of the Year among them. Around then he also launched his own label, Gingerbread Man Records. What followed was stadium-scale success: ÷ in 2017 became the world's best-selling album that year, and in December 2019 the Official Charts Company crowned him the UK's artist of the decade.
Written with AI assistance from RockLists chart data, MusicBrainz and Wikipedia.
Songs by Ed Sheeran on radio countdowns
| # | Song | Strength | Lists | Best | #1s | Peak year |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | The A Team | 5 | #10 | – | 2012 | |
| 2 | Drive | 2 | #35 | – | 2025 | |
| 3 | Bloodstream | 1 | #12 | – | 2014 | |
| 4 | Castle On The Hill | 1 | #7 | – | 2017 | |
| 5 | Lego House | 2 | #32 | – | 2012 | |
| 6 | Thinking Out Loud | 2 | #28 | – | 2015 | |
| 7 | Photograph | 1 | #34 | – | 2015 | |
| 8 | Blow | 1 | #24 | – | 2019 |
Albums with charting songs
Where each song was first released, from MusicBrainz.
Year-end chart timeline
Combined year-end countdown points per year. Taller bars mean more songs placing higher across more stations.
Every countdown appearance
| Year | # | Song | Countdown |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2025 | 35 | Drive | 88.3 The Sting WBWC Top 88 Songs of 2025 |
| 2025 | 37 | Drive | WERG Top 90 of 2025 |
| 2024 | 740 | Thinking Out Loud | WXPN The 885 Greatest Songs of the 21st Century (2024) |
| 2019 | 24 | Blow | WMMR Top 25 Songs of 2019 |
| 2017 | 7 | Castle On The Hill | WTTS Top 50 Songs of 2017 |
| 2015 | 28 | Thinking Out Loud | WTTS Top 50 Songs of 2015 |
| 2015 | 34 | Photograph | WTTS Top 50 Songs of 2015 |
| 2014 | 12 | Bloodstream | WBER Listener Countdown 2014 |
| 2013 | 809 | The A Team | WXPN 885 Greatest Songs of the New Millennium (2013) |
| 2012 | 10 | The A Team | Lightning 100 Top 100.1 Songs of 2012 |
| 2012 | 17 | The A Team | WXPK Top 107 Songs of 2012 |
| 2012 | 32 | Lego House | Lightning 100 Top 100.1 Songs of 2012 |
| 2012 | 39 | The A Team | KFOG Foghead Favorites 2012 |
| 2012 | 57 | The A Team | 88.3 The Sting WBWC Top 88 Songs of 2012 |
| 2012 | 76 | Lego House | 88.3 The Sting WBWC Top 88 Songs of 2012 |
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