Someone call Prime Minister Jacinda Ardern, tell her to give Ed Sheeran the Kiwi citizenship he keeps asking for, because it looks like we are already paying his salary.
The ginger Brit is sitting at the top of Apple Music’s lists of New Zealand’s top songs and top albums. He has three songs and two albums in our top 20 charts.
The man may not be part of our population yet, but he is definitely already a part of our playlists.
Watch our video to see what other strange news 2017’s listening stats turned out.
Top songs:
1 Shape of You, Ed Sheeran
2 Despacito (Remix) [feat. Justin Bieber], Luis Fonsi & Daddy Yankee
3 Castle on the Hill, Ed Sheeran
4 Rockabye (feat. Sean Paul & Anne-Marie), Clean Bandit
5 Human, Rag’n’Bone Man
6 24K Magic, Bruno Mars
7 How Far I’ll Go, Alessia
8 Green Light, Lorde
9 Something Just Like This, The Chainsmokers & Coldplay
10 Thunder, Imagine Dragons
11 Say You Won’t Let Go, James Arthur
12 I Don’t Wanna Live Forever (Fifty Shades Darker), ZAYN & Taylor Swift
13 I Feel It Coming (feat. Daft Punk), The Weeknd
14 That’s What I Like, Bruno Mars
15 Starboy (feat. Daft Punk), The Weeknd
16 CAN’T STOP THE FEELING! (Original Song From DreamWorks Animation’s Trolls), Justin Timberlake
17 Galway Girl, Ed Sheeran
18 Sign of the Times, Harry Styles
19 Dancing on My Own, Calum Scott
20 It Ain’t Me, Kygo & Selena Gomez
Top albums:
1 ÷, Ed Sheeran
2 25, Adele
3 Melodrama, Lorde
4 24K Magic, Bruno Mars
5 Moana, Various Artists
6 reputation, Taylor Swift
7 DAMN., Kendrick Lamar
8 Starboy, The Weeknd
9 More Life, Drake
10 Human, Rag’n’Bone Man
11 x, Ed Sheeran
12 Blurryface, twenty one pilots
13 Harry Styles, Harry Styles
14 21, Adele
15 4 Your Eyez Only, J. Cole
16 Trolls (Original Motion Picture Soundtrack), Various Artists
17 Greatest Hits, Fleetwood Mac
18 Christmas (Deluxe Special Edition), Michael Bublé
19 Purpose, Justin Bieber
20 Evolve, Imagine Dragons
