Streaming now accounts for over 50% of UK music consumption, with a new milestone of 1.5 billion audio streams in a single week being recorded in December 2017.Īnother male solo artist secures the year’s second best-seller, Rag’n’Bone Man's Human. The news comes as the record labels' association, The BPI, revealed overall music consumption rose 9.5% in 2017 compared to the previous year. MORE: The Top 40 biggest songs of 2017 on the Official Chart The success of Ed’s latest album also caused an uplift of his previous collections second album X is the year’s sixth biggest, while his debut + ranks sixteenth. ÷ hit the top spot on seven separate occasions, a record among solo male artists.

The album accumulated 595,000 album equivalent streams across the year, and secured the most first-week streams ever recorded.Īnd those are not the only accolades that ÷ has to its name: the album features more Top 10 singles on it than any other studio album in UK chart history, had all 16 of its tracks chart concurrently in the Official Singles Chart Top 20, has yet to exit the Top 10 since its release, and achieved 19 non-consecutive weeks at Number 1. 2017 really was the year of Ed Sheeran, with ÷ finishing as the year’s best-selling album.Įd’s third studio record finishes 2017 with combined sales of 2.7 million, 672,000 of which were logged in its first week of release in March, making it the fastest-selling ever by a solo male, and the third fastest-selling album of all time behind Adele’s 25 and Oasis’ Be Here Now.ġ.7 million physical copies of the LP were picked up on CD and vinyl, while over 428,000 of you downloaded it.

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