Edward Sheeran Top Songs and Awards
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Sheeran got an honorary degree from the University of Suffolk in Ipswich on October 19, 2015, for his “outstanding contribution to music.” “Suffolk is very much where I call home,” Sheeran said. It is an honour to be recognized in this way.”
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In the 2017 Birthday Honours, he was named a Member of the Order of the British Empire (MBE) for “services to music and charity.” On December 7, 2017, Sheeran accepted the award from Prince Charles at Buckingham Palace. He was made a baron of Sealand in 2012.
Sheeran has garnered several honors in addition to having the highest-grossing concert tour and being one of the world’s best-selling music artists with more than 150 million records sold. He has four Grammy Awards (including Song of the Year in 2016 for “Thinking Out Loud”), five Brit Awards (including British Male Solo Artist in 2015), and six Billboard Music Awards (including Top Artist in 2018) as of 2019.
In 2015 and 2018, he received the British Academy of Songwriters, Composers, and Authors’ Ivor Novello Award for Songwriter of the Year
Although Sheeran considers Suffolk to be his home, having relocated there as a child, he was recognized by his birth county in a 2018 survey, when he was ranked the fourth-greatest Yorkshireman ever, behind Monty Python comic Michael Palin and actors Sean Bean and Patrick Stewart.