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.

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