Ed Sheeran has moved almost 60,000 units of his new album Play, with the first set of Midweek numbers still missing streaming data from the weekend.

Currently on 57,085 sales, Play has 45,388 sales from physical, 8,318 from downloads and 3,379 from streams. Sheeran has the rest of the week to chase down the tallies set by the two fastest-selling albums of 2025 so far, Sabrina Carpenter’s 85,305 week one sales for Man’s Best Friend and Sam Fender’s unmatched ...