Talk:Shape of You

Protected edit request on 17 January, 2017

Updated chart position on Billboard Hot 100 ([1]), and addition of the category Category:Billboard Hot 100 number-one singles. TheKaphox T 19:57, 17 January 2017 (UTC)

Protected edit request on 18 January 2017

Update the charts section to add the Billboard Hot 100 #1 peak, per source. Trust, Gary (January 17, 2017). "Ed Sheeran Debuts Atop Hot 100 With 'Shape of You' & in Top 10 With 'Castle on the Hill'". Billboard. Retrieved January 18, 2017. —IB ^{[ Poke ]} 04:57, 18 January 2017 (UTC)

Protected edit request on 18 January 2017

Please up the Billboard Mainstream Top 40 chart position from 24 to 17, and update the accessdate to 18 Janaury 2017. Thanks.  — Calvin999 10:22, 18 January 2017 (UTC)

Dancehall and tropical house? One or the other

According to this, [2], dancehall and tropical house aren't the same and one song cannot be both, Richie Stephens and Mr. Vegas also hold these views (see here [3]).--Theo Mandela (talk) 23:07, 12 April 2017 (UTC)

Additional information

Please add this, it should be included due to its uniqueness in chart history:

"Shape of You is one of the all-time most successful songs worldwide, charting at No. 1 for at least 10 weeks in 15 countries: Australia, Austria, Belgium, Canada, Denmark, France, Germany, Ireland, the Netherlands, New Zealand, Portugal, Sweden, Switzerland, the UK and the USA."

Maybe someone could check whether this happened in that many countries before. I doubt it, but who knows... --94.46.67.91 (talk) 00:15, 14 April 2017 (UTC)

You can't use opinionated words like "successful" to describe a single, plus "One Dance" is officially the biggest song of the decade (words of the UK Music Video Chart, and "One Dance" didn't even have a video), had much more streams and sales, sorry.--Theo Mandela (talk) 10:28, 14 April 2017 (UTC)

Not done: please establish a consensus for this alteration before using the {{edit semi-protected}} template. -- Dane ^talk 03:45, 15 April 2017 (UTC)

One Dance spent 10 or more weeks at No. 1 in the following countries: Ireland, the Netherlands, New Zealand, the US. I think there is a difference between 4 and 15 countries. "Successful" is an opinionated word, but what about "countries with doubl-digit amounts of weeks at No. 1"? That is indeed factual and even if we exclude Portugal for the reason of fairness (songs might have been released before the introduction of the chart and therefore not been given the chance to make it to No. 1 there), I cannot think of another single that reached No. 1 for that many weeks in that many countries. --94.46.73.142 (talk) 01:58, 17 April 2017 (UTC)

Not done: According to the page's protection level you should be able to edit the page yourself. If you seem to be unable to, please reopen the request with further details. -- Dane ^talk 02:06, 17 April 2017 (UTC)

See also section

Edge4life42, please explain why you undid my edit. Per MOS:SEEALSO the links in the "See also" section should be limited to a reasonable number, and also if there are a lot of links in that section it doesn't encourage people to click to an article which is what the purpose of "See also" section is. --Hddty. (talk) 06:31, 1 December 2017 (UTC)

Hddty. It's okay to have that many look at Despacito's article plus you removed all of the important ones including UK's and the Billboard 100.

Orphaned references in Shape of You

I check pages listed in Category:Pages with incorrect ref formatting to try to fix reference errors. One of the things I do is look for content for orphaned references in wikilinked articles. I have found content for some of Shape of You's orphans, the problem is that I found more than one version. I can't determine which (if any) is correct for this article, so I am asking for a sentient editor to look it over and copy the correct ref content into this article.

Reference named "Ifpi2018":

• From Global Recording Artist of the Year: IFPI Global Music Report 2018 (PDF), International Federation of the Phonographic Industry, p. 9, retrieved 24 April 2018
• From List of best-selling singles: "Global Top 10 Digital Singles of 2017", IFPI Global Music Report 2018 (PDF), International Federation of the Phonographic Industry, p. 9, retrieved 24 April 2018

I apologize if any of the above are effectively identical; I am just a simple computer program, so I can't determine whether minor differences are significant or not. AnomieBOT⚡ 12:22, 6 May 2018 (UTC)

All-time charts

There are some all-time charts coming from (country)charts.com, but, if this is not a mistake, it's based upon points recorded by the website and not upon sales (199 points for a number-one song during one week, 1 point for a song that peaks at number 200). I deleted the french chart. But maybe we can delete others based upon this rules. --Land and travel (talk) 16:10, 15 June 2019 (UTC)

"Shape of You" intentionally sampled " No Scrubs" and Kandi Burruss discussed with Sheeran the royalties she would receiveBEFORE "Shape of You was released.

It is important to note tha — Preceding unsigned comment added by RDB18 (talk • contribs) 15:58, 30 September 2019 (UTC)

hi

... — Preceding unsigned comment added by 31.127.119.167 (talk) 19:38, 8 October 2019 (UTC)

Confusion over lyrics

If Ed Sheeran is English, as stated in the article, why does he use American forms as when he sings "(...) And how your family is doing okay" instead of the usual British form "(...) And how your family are doing okay"? --Fandelasketchup (talk) 14:54, 12 November 2020 (UTC)

External links: Videos

The first two links should probably be deleted:

• "New York Times video and text analysis of song" is linked to a now-non-existant page on an Indian website about industrial training. Suspect that, if it ever existed, it was a copyvio, now deleted
• This Shape of You on YouTube needs checking - for me, at least, it produces "Video unavailable - This video is not available" Davidships (talk) 19:29, 16 October 2022 (UTC)