Ed Sheeran could steal a 26-year record set by Bryan Adams
Sheeran’s Shape Of You has spent a whopping 10 weeks at the top of the Official Singles Charts and is now only six weeks out from beating
Bryan Adams hit Everything I Do (I Do It For You), which holds the record (16 weeks) for the longest consecutive period at number one, set back in 1991.
Bryan Adams hit Everything I Do (I Do It For You), which holds the record (16 weeks) for the longest consecutive period at number one, set back in 1991.
With 10 weeks at the top spot, Shape Of You sits alongside Whitney Houston’s I Will Always Love You, Rihanna’s Umbrella, and David Whitfield’s Cara Mia in fourth place on the chart record; Drake was the last person to get close to toppling Bryan’s record but missed out at week 15 – can Ed hold on?
Adams infamously recorded Everything I Do (I Do It For You) back in 1991 in one 45-minute session, with the ballad used in the Robin Hood: Prince Of Thieves soundtrack.
‘We knocked it out, then sat back to listen to it for the first time, and we looked up at one another and grinned,’ Adams told Team Rock.
‘Straight away, we knew that we’d written something beautiful, but I had no idea of the impact it would have.”
Sheeran’s third studio album Divide continues to dominate the Official Albums Chart for a second week in, you guessed it, the number one spot, becoming the fastest-selling album ever released by a male artist in the UK, and the biggest selling album of 2017, shifting around 432,000 units in its first three days of release.
All 16 songs from Divide are currently in the Top 40, nine of which are in the Top 10.
Earlier in March, The Official Chart Company hit back at claims the charts were ‘broken’ amid Sheeran’s success, instead saying it was a ‘reflection of the tastes of a nation’.
In an official statement the company said: ‘The Official Singles Chart is a reflection of the tastes of the nation and, for that reason, the chart is dominated by Ed this week, because of the volumes of both streams AND sales that it has generated.
They went on to say: ‘And we will review chart methodologies, as we continually do, to see if there is something we could or should change.
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