As a young, precocious redheaded boy growing up in Framlingham, Suffolk, Ed Sheeran decided he wanted to be a musician. He started writing songs and playing instruments like so many hopefuls do ...

(In 2018, the Billboard staff released a list project of its ... you wouldn't have known that Ed Sheeran's "Shape of You" was the most successful song of 2017. (My cousin went most of the year ...