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Ed Sheeran Breaks Streaming Record

07/07/2014
. (Scoop) Ed Sheeran's new album, X (pronounced multiply), broke several streaming records during its first week of release on Spotify, including the biggest first week across the globe and the most streamed in a single week in the UK. Scoop sent over these details:

Following the album's release in the UK on Monday June 23rd, 'X' was the most streamed album in the UK ever on Spotify in a single week, with 6,248,130 streams. That topped the previous record for Daft Punk, who had 6,181,583 streams of their album "Random Access Memories").

Globally, 'X' scored the biggest ever 'week one' of album streams in Spotify history, with 23,792,476 streams, beating Eminem's 22,780,154 streams of The Marshall Mathers LP 2 in November 2013.

'X' also lived up to its name by setting the UK record for the most streams of an album in a single week so far in 2014 with over three times Lana Del Ray's previous record of 2,064,297 streams during the week of 16th June.

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