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Ed Sheeran was the most-played artiste in the UK last year, according to new data from music licensing body PPL, the BBC<\/em> reported.<\/p>\n The star also had the most-played song of the year with \u2018Bad Habits\u2019.<\/p>\n It\u2019s the fourth time in five years that Sheeran has been named the UK\u2019s most-played artiste, calculated by plays on radio, TV, pubs, clubs and shops.<\/p>\n The singer last topped the most-played song chart in 2017 with \u2018Shape Of You\u2019, over which he recently won a\u00a0High Court copyright case<\/strong>.<\/p>\n Sheeran\u2019s continued success is \u201ca testament to the quality of his output [and] the strength of UK music at a time when the global music landscape is more competitive than ever,\u201d said PPL chief executive Peter Leatham.<\/p>\n But Bedford-born singer Tom Grennan could be coming for Sheeran\u2019s crown.<\/p>\n The singer, who was\u00a0recently hospitalised after being attacked in New York, had the second and third most-played songs of 2021.<\/p>\n His Calvin Harris collaboration, \u2018By Your Side\u2019, took the runner-up spot, with his solo single \u2018Little Bit of Love\u2019 in third place.<\/p>\n The Weeknd\u2019s \u2018Blinding Lights\u2019 was the fourth most-played track of 2021, even though it was originally released in November 2019.<\/p>\n The song, which has sold three million copies in the UK, was also recently named the\u00a0biggest hit of all time\u00a0on the US Billboard charts, overtaking Chubby Checker\u2019s 1960 single \u2018The Twist\u2019.<\/p>\n \u00a0<\/p>\n \u00a0<\/p>\n \u00a0<\/p>\n \n\t<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" Ed Sheeran was the most-played artiste in the UK last year, according to new data from music licensing body PPL, the BBC reported. The star also had the most-played song of the year with \u2018Bad Habits\u2019. It\u2019s the fourth time in five years that Sheeran has been named the UK\u2019s most-played artiste, calculated by plays […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":1129805,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[9],"tags":[151,18435,18436,18437],"class_list":["post-1129803","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-entertainment","tag-artiste","tag-mostplayed","tag-sheeran","tag-uks"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2022\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1129803","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2022\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2022\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2022\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2022\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1129803"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2022\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1129803\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2022\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1129803"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2022\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1129803"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2022\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1129803"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}