ED SHEERAN - YOU NEED ME, I DON'T NEED YOU

YOU NEED ME, I DON'T NEED YOU

ED SHEERAN

SONGWRITER: ED SHEERAN

COUNTRY: u. k.

ALBUM: +

LABEL: atlantic records

GENRE: pop

YEAR: 2011

Edward Christopher Sheeran MBE (/ˈʃɪərən/; born 17 February 1991) is an English singer, songwriter, record producer, and actor. In early 2011, Sheeran independently released the extended play, Nº. 5 Collaborations Project. After signing with Asylum Records, his debut album, + (pronounced "plus"), was released in September 2011 and topped the UK Albums Chart. It contained his first hit single "The A Team". In 2012, Sheeran won the Brit Awards for Best British Male Solo Artist and British Breakthrough Act.

Sheeran's second studio album, × (pronounced "multiply"), was released in June 2014. It was named the second-best-selling album worldwide of 2015. In the same year, × won Album of the Year at the 2015 Brit Awards, and he received the Ivor Novello Award for Songwriter of the Year from the British Academy of Songwriters, Composers and Authors. A single from ×, "Thinking Out Loud", earned him the 2016 Grammy Awards for Song of the Year and Best Pop Solo Performance. Sheeran's third album, ÷ (pronounced "divide"), was released in March 2017, and was the best-selling album worldwide of 2017. The first two singles from the album, "Shape of You" and "Castle on the Hill", broke records in a number of countries by debuting in the top two positions of the charts. He also became the first artist to have two songs debut in the US top 10 in the same week. By March 2017, Sheeran had accumulated ten top 10 singles from ÷ on the UK Singles Chart, breaking the record for most top 10 UK singles from one album. His fourth single from ÷, "Perfect", reached number one in the US, Australia and the UK, where it became the Christmas number one in 2017. The world’s best-selling artist of 2017, he was named the Global Recording Artist of the Year. Released in 2019, his fourth studio álbum No.6 Collaborations Project debuted at number one in most major markets, and spawned three UK number one singles, "I Don't Care", "Beautiful People" and "Take Me Back to London".

Sheeran has sold more than 150 million records worldwide, making him one of the world's best-selling music artists. He has 84.5 million RIAA-certified units in the US, and two of his albums are in the list of the best-selling albums in UK chart history: x at number 20, and ÷ at number 34. In December 2019, the Official Charts Company named him artist of the decade, with the most combined success in the UK album and singles charts in the 2010s. Globally, Spotify named him the second most streamed artist of the decade. Beginning in March 2017, his ÷ Tour became the highest-grossing of all time in August 2019. An alumnus of the National Youth Theatre in London, as an actor Sheeran’s roles include appearing in the 2019 film Yesterday.

+ (/plʌs/) is the debut studio album by English singer-songwriter Ed Sheeran. It was released on 9 September 2011 by Asylum Records and Atlantic Records. The album is considered Sheeran's commercial breakthrough. He previously released five EPs independently. Jake Gosling and Sheeran produced the majority of the album, with additional production by American hip hop producer No I.D.

Media interest surrounding + was heightened by its two preceding singles—"The A Team" and "You Need Me, I Don't Need You"—which peaked at numbers three and four on the UK Singles Chart, respectively. "Lego House" was released on 11 November 2011 as the album's third single and matched the chart success of its predecessors, peaking at number five in the UK. Three additional singles—"Drunk", "Small Bump", and "Give Me Love"—were released throughout the year, all charting within the top 25 of the UK Singles Chart. Worldwide, the album has sold more than 4 million copies.

The album was met with generally positive reviews from music critics. Upon release, + debuted atop of the UK Albums Chart with first-week sales exceeding 102,000 copies. The album performed well on the US Billboard 200, peaking at number five, selling 42,000 copies. The album was the highest debut for a British artist's first studio album in the US since Susan Boyle's I Dreamed a Dream in 2009. + is the ninth best-selling album of the 2010s in the United Kingdom.

Now I’m in town, break it down, thinking of making a new sound

Playing a different show every night in front of a new crowd

That’s you now, ciao, seems that life is great now

See me lose focus as I sing to you loud

And I can’t, no I won’t hush

I say the words that make you blush

I’m gonna sing this now

See, I’m true, my songs are where my heart is

I’m like glue, I stick to other artists

I’m not you, now that would be disastrous

Let me sing and do my thing and move to greener pastures

See, I’m real, I do it all, it’s all me

I’m not fake, don’t ever call me lazy

I won’t stay put, give me the chance to be free

Suffolk sadly seems to sort of suffocate me

‘Cos you need me, man, I don’t need you

You need me, man, I don’t need you

You need me, man, I don’t need you at all

You need me, man, I don’t need you

You need me, man, I don’t need you

You need me, man, I don’t need you

You need me, man, I don’t need you at all

You need me

I sing, I write my own tune and I write my own verse, hell

Don’t need another wordsmith to make the tune sell

Call yourself a singer-writer, you’re just bluffing

Name’s on the credits and you didn’t write nothing

I sing fast, I know that all my shit’s cool

I will blast and I didn’t go to BRIT School

I came fast with the way I act, right

I can’t last if I’m smoking on a crack pipe

And I won’t be a product of my genre

My mind will always be stronger than my songs are

Never believe the bullshit that fake guys feed to ya

Always read the stories that you hear in Wikipedia

And musically I’m demonstrating

When I perform live feels like I am meditating

Times at the enterprise when some fella filmed me

Young singer-writer like a Gabriella Cilmi, yeah

‘Cos you need me, man, I don’t need you

You need me, man, I don’t need you

You need me, man, I don’t need you at all

You need me, man, I don’t need you

You need me, man, I don’t need you

You need me, man, I don’t need you

You need me, man, I don’t need you at all

You need me

‘Cos with the lyrics I’ll be aiming it right

I won’t stop till my name is in lights

At stadium heights with Damien Rice, on red carpets, now I’m on Arabian nights

Because I’m young, I know my brother’s gonna give me advice

Long nighter, short height and I’m going hyper

Never be anything but a singer-songwriter

Yeah, the game’s over but now I’m on a new level

Watch how I step on the track without a loop pedal

People think that I’m bound to blow up

I’ve done around about a thousand shows

But I haven’t got a house, plus I live on the couch

So you believe the lyrics when I’m singing them out, wow

From day one, I’ve been prepared with VO5 wax for my ginger hair

So now I’m back to the sofa giving a dose of what the future holds 'cos it’s another day

Plus I keep my last name forever, keep the genre pretty basic

Gonna be breaking into other people’s tunes when I chase it

And replace it with the elephant in the room with a facelift

Into another rapper’s shoes using new laces

I'm selling CD’s from my rucksack aiming for the papers

Selling CD’s from my rucksack aiming for the majors

Nationwide tour with Just Jack, I still had to get the bus back

Clean-cut kid without a razor for the moustache

I hit back when the pen hurts me

I’m still a choir boy in a Fenchurch tee

I’m still the same as a year ago but more people hear me, though

According to the MySpace and YouTube videos

I’m always doing shows, if I’m not, I’m in the studio

Truly broke, never growing up, call me Rufio

Melody music maker, reading all the papers

They say I’m up-and-coming like I’m fucking in an elevator

‘Cos you need me, man, I don’t need you

You need me, man, I don’t need you

You need me, man, I don’t need you at all

You need me, man, I don’t need you

You need me, man, I don’t need you

You need me, man, I don’t need you

You need me, man, I don’t need you at all

You need me, man, I don’t need you.