
His third studio album, ÷, followed on 3 March 2017. Sheeran released two singles, " Shape of You", " Castle on the Hill", his first solo material in two years, on 6 January 2017.

× was also the best-selling album of the year in the UK, with almost 1.7 million copies sold. Five singles were released from the album: " Sing", " Don't", " Thinking Out Loud", " Bloodstream" (a collaboration with Rudimental), and " Photograph". It was the fastest-selling album of 2014 in the UK, shifting 180,000 copies in its first week of release. 1 in the UK, Ireland, the US, Australia, New Zealand, Canada, Germany, Finland, Denmark, Switzerland and Norway. In 2014, Sheeran released his second studio album, × (Multiply), which peaked at No. The final single from +, " Give Me Love", was released on 21 November 2012 and peaked at No. " Small Bump" was released in May 2012, peaking at No. " Drunk" was released in February 2012, becoming Sheeran's fourth consecutive top ten single when it peaked at No. The album spawned a further three singles, including " Lego House", which reached the top five in Australia, New Zealand and the UK. 1 on the UK Albums Chart, selling over 100,000 copies in its first week and was certified 7× Platinum by the British Phonographic Industry for sales of 2.1 million copies. Sheeran released his major label debut studio album, +, on 9 September 2011. The release was succeeded by a second single, " You Need Me, I Don't Need You", in August 2011, which peaked at No. The track attained international chart success, reaching the top ten in numerous countries including Australia and New Zealand, where it peaked at No. 3 on the UK Singles Chart with first-week sales of 57,607 copies.

Five months later, Sheeran released his first single, " The A Team", on 12 June 2011. Originally an indie artist selling music independently on his own label starting in 2005, Sheeran released nine EPs, steadily gaining public and critical acclaim, resulting in his signing to Atlantic Records in January 2011. The discography of English singer-songwriter Ed Sheeran consists of four solo studio albums, one collaboration album, seventeen extended plays, one video album, forty-three singles, including seventeen singles as a featured artist, seven promotional singles, one box set, and 71 music videos, 12 of which have been UK number-ones.
