{"id":108626,"date":"2018-03-17T11:12:00","date_gmt":"2018-03-17T15:12:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/headlineplanet.com\/home\/?p=108626"},"modified":"2018-03-17T11:12:00","modified_gmt":"2018-03-17T15:12:00","slug":"ed-sheerans-shape-thinking-loud-reach-11x-platinum-australia","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/headlineplanet.com\/home\/2018\/03\/17\/ed-sheerans-shape-thinking-loud-reach-11x-platinum-australia\/","title":{"rendered":"Ed Sheeran&#8217;s &#8220;Shape Of You,&#8221; &#8220;Thinking Out Loud&#8221; Reach 11x Platinum In Australia"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Earlier this month, news broke that Ed Sheeran&#8217;s &#8220;Shape Of You&#8221; had been certified 10x platinum in Australia.<\/p>\n<p>That certification has already been upgraded.<\/p>\n<p>This week&#8217;s ARIA chart confirms that &#8220;Shape Of You&#8221; is 11x platinum in the Land Down Under.  The award confirms 770,000 in Australian units.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;Shape Of You&#8221; spent fifteen weeks at #1 on the ARIA Australian Top 50 Singles Chart.  Now in its 62nd week on the chart, the song is still prominently positioned at #20.<\/p>\n<p>&#8212; &#8220;Shape Of You&#8221; was not the only former Ed Sheeran #1 to cross the 11x platinum threshold this week.  Sheeran also received that honor for his ballad &#8220;Thinking Out Loud.&#8221;  Auspop confirmed news of the &#8220;Thinking Out Loud&#8221; honor.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"&#8220;Shape Of You&#8221; and &#8220;Thinking Out Loud&#8221; just reached impressive certification milestones.","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0},"categories":[1047],"tags":[314,8083,3215],"adace-sponsor":[],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO plugin v21.1 - https:\/\/yoast.com\/wordpress\/plugins\/seo\/ -->\n<title>Ed Sheeran&#039;s &quot;Shape Of You,&quot; &quot;Thinking Out Loud&quot; Reach 11x Platinum In Australia<\/title>\n<meta name=\"description\" content=\"Earlier this month, news broke that Ed Sheeran&#039;s &quot;Shape Of You&quot; had been certified 10x platinum in Australia. 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