The ballad gained in all metrics, holding at number three on Digital Song Sales (53,000, up 7 percent) and climbing 30–22 on Radio Songs (53 million, up 16 percent) and 35–27 on Streaming Songs (13.1 million, up 14 percent). On 30 October 2017, "Perfect" soared to the top ten on the Billboard Hot 100. It also lifted 4–3 on Digital Songs (50,000 downloads sold), 34–30 on Radio Songs (45 million) and 46–35 on Streaming Songs (11.5 million). In October, the song ascended to number eighteen and became the third song from ÷ to reach the country's top twenty. In the United States, ten songs from ÷ debuted on the Billboard Hot 100 in March 2017, including "Perfect" at number thirty-seven. As of 2021, it is the longest runner on the UK Singles top 75, with 130 weeks spent on that chart, breaking a 49 year old record that had previously been held by "My Way" by Frank Sinatra (124 weeks). Kirsty MacColl, Rita Ora and Mariah Carey to the Christmas number one spot and held the summit for six consecutive weeks before being displaced by Eminem's " River", which features Sheeran as a guest artist. Julia Michaels (Clean Bandit had gotten the previous year’s Christmas number one with “ Rockabye”), The Pogues ft. It became 2017’s Christmas number one single on December 22, 2017. With UK sales of 1,048,313, "Perfect" became Sheeran's tenth million-selling single. The Beyoncé version, released on 1 December 2017, drove consumption of the track to 89,359 sales (including 45,460 from sales-equivalent streams) as it became Sheeran's second number-one song from ÷, following " Shape of You" – and his fourth number-one single in total. After Sheeran's performance of "Perfect" on The X Factor on 26 November 2017, the song reached a new peak in the UK, advancing to number three and selling 32,507 units. "Perfect" peaked at number four and the song debuted at that position, selling 62,599 copies. Also, every single one of the sixteen tracks from his new album ÷ entered the top twenty. In March 2017, Sheeran broke the record set by Frankie Laine in 1953, occupying all of the top five positions in the United Kingdom, and placing nine songs in the top ten of the UK Singles Chart. The vocals span from E ♭ 3 to A ♭ 4 in the song. "Perfect" moves at a chord progression of A ♭ 5–Fm 7–D ♭ sus2–E ♭. The song is written in the key of A ♭ major ( G major in live performances) with a tempo of 63.5 beats per minute in 12Ĥ time (if using triplets). Another version with slightly different lyrics featuring Camila Cabello and Nicholas Galitzine is included in the Cinderella (2021 soundtrack).
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The full string orchestration was later used for the recording with Andrea Bocelli. This is the first time the brothers had collaborated on a song as it was the final wish of their grandmother to see the brothers working together before she died. It was recorded with strings orchestration from his brother Matthew Sheeran. Sheeran produced the song himself with help from Will Hicks. And the song happened and was sort of finished that day. I booked the studio for the day, and I had that and I was like, right, let me just flesh that out. He said: "Barefoot on the grass, listening to our favorite song, which happened to be Future's " March Madness". Sheeran revealed that the inspiration for the lyrics came after visiting James Blunt's house in Ibiza, where the two singers had listened to the rapper Future's music at six in the morning. The song is a romantic ballad focusing on traditional marriage, written about his wife-to-be Cherry Seaborn, whom he knew from school and then reconnected with when she was working in New York. "Perfect" was the first track Sheeran wrote for his third studio album ÷. The song and its official music video received three nominations at the 2018 MTV Video Music Awards. Another duet with Italian singer Andrea Bocelli, titled "Perfect Symphony", was released on 15 December 2017. The second version of the single, titled "Perfect Duet", with American singer Beyoncé, was released on 1 December 2017. "Perfect" became the UK Christmas number-one song for 2017 and also peaked at number one in sixteen other countries, including Australia, Canada, Ireland, and New Zealand.
It eventually reached number one on the UK Singles Chart and the US Billboard Hot 100 in December 2017.
Originally peaking at number four in March 2017, the song re-entered the UK charts later that year.
The song was serviced to pop radio on 26 September 2017 as the third single from the album in the United States (fourth overall). On 21 August 2017, Billboard announced that "Perfect" would be the fourth single from the album. After the album's release, it charted at number four on the UK Singles Chart.
" Perfect" is a song by English singer-songwriter Ed Sheeran from his third studio album, ÷ (2017).
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