Ed Sheeran's awards: A timeline of his biggest accolades 🏆
He's one of the most renowned musicians of his generation!
Last updated 7th Aug 2024
Ed Sheeran needs no introduction. Whether you're a superfan or just a casual listener, it's safe to say that pretty much everyone across the globe will have heard at least a couple of his songs over the years, including some of the songs he nearly didn't release!
As such a talented singer, songwriter and performer, it's no surprise that Ed's won plenty of awards throughout his career. With seven BRIT Awards, four Grammys and plenty of other trophies under his belt, take a look through our timeline to discover just what he's won and when he won it...
All the biggest awards of Ed Sheeran's career:
2012
BRIT Awards:
British Breakthrough Act
British Male Solo Artist
Ivor Novello Awards:
Best Song Musically and Lyrically for 'The A Team'
2014
MTV VMAs:
Best Male Video for 'Sing' (featuring Pharrell Williams)
2015
University of Suffolk:
Honorary Doctorate of Music
BRIT Awards:
British Male Solo Artist
British Album of the Year for 'x'
Ivor Novello Awards:
Songwriter of the Year
MTV EMAs:
Best Live Act
Best World Stage Performance
2016
Grammy Awards:
Song of the Year and Best Pop Solo Performance for 'Thinking Out Loud'
2017
Member of the Order of the British Empire (MBE):
Services to music and charity
MTV EMAs:
Best Live
MTV VMAs:
Artist of the Year
2018: Ed won even more awards
BRIT Awards:
Global Success Award
Grammy Awards:
Best Pop Solo Performance for 'Shape of You'
Best Pop Vocal Album for '÷'
Ivor Novello Awards:
Songwriter of the Year
Most Performed Work for 'Shape of You'
2019
BRIT Awards:
Global Success Award
2021
MTV EMAs:
Best Song for 'Bad Habits'
Best Artist
2022
BRIT Awards:
Songwriter Of The Year
2023
Primetime Emmy Awards:
Outstanding Original Music and Lyrics for 'A Beautiful Game' (from Ted Lasso)
How many awards has Ed Sheeran received?
Ed has been nominated for over 300 awards in his time. His achievements include seven BRIT Awards; two in 2012 for British Breakthrough Act and British Male Solo Artist, two in 2015, British Male Solo Artist and MasterCard British Album of the Year for 'x' and for Global Success in both 2018 and 2019. Then, in 2022, he picked up the award for Songwriter of the Year.
In 2024, he was nominated for Song of the Year with Mastercard, for his song 'Eyes Closed', but lost out to RAYE's 'Escapism'.
Back in 2023, he was also nominated for Song of the Year for his collab 'Merry Christmas' with Elton John and Best International Song for 'Peru' with Fireboy DML - he lost out on both to Harry Styles and Beyoncé respectively.
Within his huge wins he’s also been bestowed an MBE, receiving his award from Prince Charles in December 2017. Upon collecting his award, the singer said: "My grandfather died on this day four years ago, so it's actually quite a nice full circle thing, I guess he'd be pretty proud."
In 2019, Spotify also confirmed that he’d set a new record for the highest number of global monthly listeners on the streaming platform.
In 2022, his single 'Bad Habits' was presented with the European Song of the Year Award at the 2022 BMI London Awards. Accepting the gong with co-writer Johnny McDaid of Snow Patrol, Ed said: "We had so much fun making the song and it has been so much fun playing the song out on the road and seeing the reactions of people all around Europe and I can’t wait to go out and do some more."
Johnny added: "Ed, I’m so grateful man for the fact that you still trust me to make music with you after over a decade of us writing songs together and I hope we have many more to come."
You can hear Ed Sheeran's biggest hits on the Hits Radio playlist.
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