<P> In October 2015, "Thinking Out Loud" set the record of most streams of a song on Spotify, having accumulated over 500 million streams . The company created the "Sheerio Index", an interactive graphic map which showed where Sheeran was most popular . The color - based map indicated that Sheeran was most popular in Denmark . It was surpassed a month later by "Lean On", a song by Major Lazer and DJ Snake featuring MØ . </P> <P> Emil Nava directed the video accompaniment to the single . Most of it was filmed in the Crystal Ballroom at the Millennium Biltmore Hotel in Los Angeles, California . The video was shot continuously using a 16 mm film camera . </P> <P> Unlike Sheeran's earlier videos, where he assumed a low profile, he took the lead role on "Thinking Out Loud". In the video, Sheeran executes a ballroom dance with Brittany Cherry, a contestant from the televised American dance competition, So You Think You Can Dance . The routine was choreographed by Nappytabs and with training help from Paul Karmiryan . While on concert tour, Sheeran spent five hours a day for three weeks to practice with Cherry . </P> <P> The video was released on October 8, 2014 . After the first 24 hours, the video had over 2.7 million views on video - sharing website, YouTube . As of October 2018, it has over 2.5 billion views, making it the 12th most viewed video on the site . The music video received four nominations at the 2015 MTV Video Music Awards including Video of the Year and Best Male Video . </P>

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