Ed Sheeran breaks 2014 album sales

Ed Sheeran's "X" becomes 2014's fastest selling album

Singer-songwriter goes into the album charts at No 1, breaking Coldplay's first-week sales record for the year. 

Great Britain’s very own Ed Sheeran has ousted Coldplay of the fastest selling album of 2014, topping both Sam Smith and Lana Del Rey’s recent margins by moving 210,000 plus units of “x”. 

Ed Sheeran's album (pronounced as "multiply", not as the letter) has become the fastest selling album of the year so far, with 182,000 sales in its first week, 14,000 more than Coldplay managed with Ghost Stories in May. It features his first No 1 single, Sing.

You can buy "x" now, via iTunes.