What a way to close out 2021! Ed Sheeran is celebrating a massive achievement – his single ‘Shape of You’ is now the first song to reach 3 billion streams on Spotify.

 

 

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“I’ve just heard ‘Shape of You’ has reached 3 billion streams on Spotify, which is absolutely insane. I remember this song hitting a billion and thinking that that was weird.  The first song to hit 3 billion streams and I’m really, really chuffed with it. Thank you, Spotify, for your support over the years. We’ve had a great 10 years together and hopefully, we have a great 10 years more,” Ed said in an Instagram video.

 

Ed continues, “The song wasn’t meant to make the album … the album wasn’t done, and when I finished the song, Ben Cook from my record label was basically saying, ‘You  have to put this on the album, it has to be a single.’ I said to him, ‘I want ‘Castle on the Hill’ to be the first single, that’s going to be bigger.’  We agreed to disagree and put both songs out at once, and I have to say that Ben, I was wrong and you were very much right.”

 

 

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Shape of You is off of Ed’s 2017 album ÷ (Divide), it spent a total of 59 weeks on the Billboard Hot 100 chart, and 12 weeks at No.1.  Watch the music video below.

 

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