The record features "chipper" beats with staccato guitar riffs throughout. The Daily Telegraph found that the lyricism is based around subjects he cares about in his own life, performing with a "soft toned, flexible voice" with a hip-hop theme. Sheeran performs throughout the record with a small acoustic guitar, with "no band" and "no beats". + is influenced by rapper Eminem, hip-hop inspired duo Nizlopi and recording artist Damien Rice. Sheeran explaining the influence of the "Grime" style on +. I've started writing songs a bit more like that, lyrically." And me as a songwriter, that sort of fascinated me, like how can you get away with that? That really interested me. He'll do a two and a half bar rhyme and then stop, and go into something else. If you listen to Ghetts' flow, it's not necessarily like four-bar, four-bar, four-bar. Being a songwriter myself, I love the way they put lyrics together. "I'm always being introduced to new people that are really good.
Throughout the production of +, Sheeran knew "how wanted every single song to sound", and because of this they only took around one day each to record, with the final product featuring "the same sound", which he described as an achievement. His musical inspirations from an early age surfaced from The Beatles and Bob Dylan, but he noted Damien Rice as a larger influence on his music whom he met after an intimate performance in Dublin. Sheeran started performing with the acoustic guitar aged 11 and his love for the instrument was what "got into music and singing". įollowing this, Sheeran signed to Atlantic Records and was signed to Elton John's management team called Rocket, which Sheeran discussed, saying: "Elton walked in and said, 'Where's Ed Sheeran?' I was like, 'F-ing hell! He knows my name!' It's surreal, growing up listening to his music and now he is one of the people who sings my praises and helps my career and rings me up and actually has an interest in me".
In addition, Sheeran's appearances on YouTube also garnered success when he uploaded a performance of track "You Need Me, I Don't Need You", which garnered over half a million views, making him "one of the most talked about UK acts". Sheeran took the opportunity to record several tracks in the studio and attended several parties with Foxx, describing the time as "surreal".
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After performing on the radio show, Foxx gave Sheeran his number offering studio time free of charge. She invited him to perform, which he agreed to, and after the performance he was contacted by Foxx's manager, who then asked him to perform on Foxx's radio show. After performing a gig in the city, he was approached by Foxx's contact, who produced open-mic nights endorsed by Foxx. In early 2010, Sheeran was having what he described as a "rough time" in the UK, and he spontaneously left for Los Angeles to spend a month "to see what could happen". After spending four years performing in the British live scene, Sheeran met singer Jamie Foxx in Los Angeles, and Foxx liked Sheeran enough to "put on the path to success". Moving from place to place, he performed at open-mic nights across the United Kingdom, where he would sleep on his friends' sofas spending time self-releasing homemade EPs and albums. Sheeran performing at Academy 1 in Manchester.Īfter completing school at age 16, Sheeran spent his student grant on rail tickets. + is the ninth best-selling album of the 2010s in the United Kingdom. The album was the highest debut for a British artist's first studio album in the US since Susan Boyle's I Dreamed a Dream in 2009. The album performed well on the US Billboard 200, peaking at number five, selling 42,000 copies. Upon release, + debuted atop of the UK Albums Chart with first-week sales exceeding 102,000 copies.
The album was met with generally positive reviews from music critics. Worldwide, the album has sold more than 4 million copies. Three additional singles-" Drunk", " Small Bump", and " Give Me Love"-were released throughout the year, all charting within the top 25 of the UK Singles Chart. " Lego House" was released on 11 November 2011 as the album's third single and matched the chart success of its predecessors, peaking at number five in the UK. Media interest surrounding + was heightened by its two preceding singles-" The A Team" and " You Need Me, I Don't Need You"-which peaked at numbers three and four on the UK Singles Chart, respectively.
Jake Gosling and Sheeran produced the majority of the album, with additional production by American hip hop producer No I.D. He previously released five EPs independently. The album is considered Sheeran's commercial breakthrough. It was released on 9 September 2011 by Asylum Records and Atlantic Records. + (pronounced "plus") is the debut studio album by English singer-songwriter Ed Sheeran.
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