Team Ed Sheeran are hoping to hit No.1 and No.2 on Friday’s Official Singles Chart after returning with a surprise double single last week.

Sheeran debuted not one, but two new songs – the rocky Castle On The Hill and the more
R&B-tinged Shape Of You (Asylum/Atlantic) – online at 5am on January 6, to kick start the campaign for the most hotly-anticipated UK album of 2017.

“We decided to sell two sides of the story,” Sheeran’s manager, Stuart Camp ...