First act to debut in US Top 10 with two singles simultaneously

On the Billboard Hot 100 dated 28 January 2017, British singer-songwriter Ed Sheeran debuted at No.1 with "Shape of You" and No.6 with "Castle on the Hill" – the first singles released from his third studio album ÷ ("Divide"). In the 58-year history of the Hot 100, no act had ever scored two Top 10 debuts in the same week. "Shape of You" was Sheeran's first US chart-topper.

Two acts, Beyoncé and J Cole (both USA), have both narrowly missed simultaneous Top 10 debuts on the Hot 100. On the chart dated 14 May 2016, Beyoncé bowed at No.10 with "Formation" and No.11 with "Sorry". On 31 December 2016, J Cole (Jermaine Cole) debuted at No.7 with "Deja Vu" and No.11 with "Immortal".

"Shape of You" bowed at No.1 on Billboard's Digital Song Sales chart with 240,000 downloads sold. "Castle on the Hill" debuted at No.2 on the same chart with 171,000 downloads sold.

Sheeran was the first act in the 64-year history of UK's Official Singles Chart to debut in the top two positions ("Shape of You" at No.1, "Castle on the Hill" at No.2), on the chart dated 19 January 2017, with 227,000 and 194,000 combined units (downloads and streams) respectively. Furthermore, both songs smashed the UK's one-week streaming record – 8.9 million for Drake's (Canada) 2016 hit "One Dance". "Shape" and "Castle" racked up streams of 13.4 million and 11.07 million, respectively, for the week ending 19 January 2017. One Direction's (UK/Ireland) 24-hour record – 4.76 million streams for "Drag Me Down" – was also lost to the irrepressible Sheeran as "Shape of You" attracted 6.13 million streams on 6 January and 7.24 million streams on 9 January 2017.

In Australia, the two songs matched their chart start in the UK, which was a first for any act on the ARIA Singles Chart. "Shape of You" and "Castle on the Hill" also debuted at No.1 and No.2 across Europe and in territories such as Canada and New Zealand, breaking chart numerous records for simultaneous Top 10 new entries.