Ed Sheeran's Official Irish Singles Chart history - the numbers behind his success in Ireland

As Ed reaches 40+ Top 50 hits in Ireland, look back at his chart success so far on Irish soil.
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Ed Sheeran had the second-most Number 1 hits of the 2010s decade, so you could say he's pretty popular in Ireland.

As Ed's standalone 'fan track' Afterglow reaches the Official Irish Singles Chart Top 10, look back at the key chart feats of Ed's career so far.

Top 50 hits

Ed has impacted the Official Irish Singles Chart Top 50 on 42 occasions so far in his career, more than the likes of Calvin Harris, Beyoncé and Pink.

How many times has he cracked the Top 10?

Ed has claimed 30 Top 10 hits in Ireland, three more than his native UK. Impressively, 11 of those are off the same album, 2017's ÷. Again, it was Ireland where more songs from ÷ went Top 10 than in the UK. In fact, the week ÷ was released, the Top 16 of the Official Irish Singles Chart were tracks from the album, making it - you guessed it - even more popular on our chart than any other.

Aside from Number 1, the number Ed has peaked at the most times is Number 5, where he's topped out on seven occasions.

Number 1s

Ed has scored six Number 1s on Irish soil, the second-most this decade, tied with Justin Bieber and Rihanna. Ed's six chart-toppers in Ireland are: Sing, Thinking Out Loud, Shape of You, Galway Girl, Perfect and I Don't Care.

In 2017's year-end chart, Shape of You was the biggest song of the year, followed by Galway Girl at 6 and Perfect at 7, with Ed spending 20 weeks at the top in total. Shape of You is also the third longest-running Number 1 hit of all-time.

Ireland is the highest charting territory for many of his hits

The love for Ed in Ireland is so strong that some of his tracks have been bigger smashes here than anywhere else. One example is Nancy Mulligan; the Irish folk song peaked at Number 3 on the Official Irish Chart, it's only Top 10 placing worldwide. 

Back in 2014, Ed's song All of the Stars from the movie The Fault In Our Stars charted at 29 in Ireland, better than it's UK and US chart position, even after a highly-publicised performance on The Voice US with the late Christina Grimmie.

Ed Sheeran's Official Irish Chart Top 50 hits to date

TITLE ARTIST PEAK YEAR
THE A TEAM ED SHEERAN 3 2011
YOU NEED ME, I DON'T NEED YOU ED SHEERAN 19 2011
LEGO HOUSE ED SHEERAN 5 2011
DRUNK ED SHEERAN 7 2012
SMALL BUMP ED SHEERAN 17 2012
GIVE ME LOVE ED SHEERAN 10 2012
EVERYTHING HAS CHANGED TAYLOR SWIFT FT. ED SHEERAN 5 2013
I SEE FIRE ED SHEERAN 8 2013
SING ED SHEERAN 1 2014
DON'T ED SHEERAN 11 2014
THINKING OUT LOUD ED SHEERAN 1 2014
BLOODSTREAM ED SHEERAN & RUDIMENTAL 13 2015
I WILL TAKE YOU HOME ED SHEERAN 50 2015
PHOTOGRAPH ED SHEERAN 3 2015
ALL OF THE STARS ED SHEERAN 29 2015
LAY IT ALL ON ME RUDIMENTAL FT. ED SHEERAN 5 2015
CASTLE ON THE HILL ED SHEERAN 2 2017
SHAPE OF YOU ED SHEERAN 1 2017
GALWAY GIRL ED SHEERAN 1 2017
PERFECT ED SHEERAN 1 2017
NANCY MULLIGAN ED SHEERAN 3 2017
HOW WOULD YOU FEEL (PAEAN) ED SHEERAN 5 2017
HAPPIER ED SHEERAN 5 2017
NEW MAN ED SHEERAN 5 2017
WHAT DO I KNOW? ED SHEERAN 8 2017
SUPERMARKET FLOWERS ED SHEERAN 9 2017
BARCELONA ED SHEERAN 10 2017
DIVE ED SHEERAN 11 2017
HEARTS DON'T BREAK AROUND HERE ED SHEERAN 13 2017
BIBIA BE YE YE ED SHEERAN 14 2017
ERASER ED SHEERAN 15 2017
SAVE MYSELF ED SHEERAN 16 2017
RIVER EMINEM FT. ED SHEERAN 2 2017
I DON'T CARE ED SHEERAN & JUSTIN BIEBER 1 2019
CROSS ME ED SHEERAN FT. CHANCE THE RAPPER & PNB ROCK 6 2019
BEAUTIFUL PEOPLE ED SHEERAN FT. KHALID 2 2019
REMEMBER THE NAME ED SHEERAN FT. EMINEM & 50 CENT  4 2019
TAKE ME BACK TO LONDON ED SHEERAN FT. STORMZY 7 2019
SOUTH OF THE BORDER ED SHEERAN FT. CAMILA CABELLO & CARDI B 6 2019
OWN IT STORMZY FT. ED SHEERAN & BURNA BOY 3 2019
THESE KINDA NIGHTS EMINEM FT. ED SHEERAN 20 2020
AFTERGLOW ED SHEERAN 2 2020

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