Ed Sheeran’s acclaimed album X has now reached million-seller status in the UK in 2014, new figures have revealed.
According to Official Chart Company data, the singer songwriter’s second album has become the first artist album to achieve this feat within a calendar year since Emeli Sandé’s Our Version of Events in 2012.
X has amassed sales for the year to date in excess of 1.005m copies across all recorded music formats (CD, vinyl and downloads).
Ed now joins the likes of Adele in 2011 (21 and 19), Take That in 2010 (Progress) and Susan Boyle in 2009 (I Dreamed a Dream) in hitting this million seller mark.
Ben Cook, president of Atlantic Records UK, said: ‘Ed is a phenomenal artist at the top of his game and his album reaching this impressive milestone so quickly only serves to underline that.
‘X is Ed at his original and inventive best - we're absolutely thrilled for him that it joins + in the ranks of the million-sellers and are delighted that so many people love it as much as we do.’
The album topped the charts in the UK for eight consecutive weeks following release while it also gave Ed his first ever US number one album.
According to Official Chart Company data, the singer songwriter’s second album has become the first artist album to achieve this feat within a calendar year since Emeli Sandé’s Our Version of Events in 2012.
X has amassed sales for the year to date in excess of 1.005m copies across all recorded music formats (CD, vinyl and downloads).
Ed now joins the likes of Adele in 2011 (21 and 19), Take That in 2010 (Progress) and Susan Boyle in 2009 (I Dreamed a Dream) in hitting this million seller mark.
Ben Cook, president of Atlantic Records UK, said: ‘Ed is a phenomenal artist at the top of his game and his album reaching this impressive milestone so quickly only serves to underline that.
‘X is Ed at his original and inventive best - we're absolutely thrilled for him that it joins + in the ranks of the million-sellers and are delighted that so many people love it as much as we do.’
The album topped the charts in the UK for eight consecutive weeks following release while it also gave Ed his first ever US number one album.
