Ed Sheeran has been named the UK’s artist of the decade by the Official Charts Company.

Axar.az reports citing NME that the ‘Shape of You’ singer achieved the huge milestone after scoring a combined run of 12 number one albums and singles between 2010 and 2019 - more than any other artist in the UK.

Meanwhile, ‘Shape of You’ was the biggest hit of the 2010s after spending 14 weeks at number one and selling more than 4.5m copies.

“Thank you to everyone who’s supported me over the past 10 years, especially my amazing fans. Here’s to the next 10!” said Sheeran.

He has spent an overall 38 weeks at number one in the singles chart and sold 53.8m tracks, while his songs have also been streamed a staggering 4.6 billion times in the UK alone.

Last week, Spotify also announced Sheeran as one of the most-streamed acts of the 2010s.

Drake and Sheeran hold the number one and number two spots respectively as the streaming platform’s most-listened-to acts of the last 10 years.