13-03-2017 10:31 via theguardian.com

Divide and conquer: Ed Sheeran album breaks chart records around the world

As well as dominating sales in the UK and US, the singer’s LP, ÷, has provided 16 songs that are concurrently in the Australian singles chartNot content with owning this week’s UK charts, Ed Sheeran has taken his quite frankly terrifying pop dominance across the world. After topping his home country’s album charts with ÷ (Divide) and filling nine of the top 10 places on the single charts, Sheeran set his sights on Australia. Divide is also a number one album there
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