<P> After being serviced to radio formats in US, the song made its first American chart entry on Billboard's component Adult Pop Songs at number thirty - eight . It also debuted at number 95 on the Billboard Hot 100 and has since peaked at number 16, becoming Sheeran's first top 20 hit on the chart . It also peaked at 29 on the Canadian Hot 100 . As of February 2015, "The A Team" has sold 2.3 million copies in the United States . </P> <P> The music video for the song was shot and edited by Ruskin Kyle (Rivers Rush Video Production Company). Sheeran refers to when he first created the demo for the song during an interview with 96.1 KISS, "Whenever I wrote songs in the past, I never recorded them down because I didn't have a recorder but I had a Mac computer and made a video version of it ." The original demos for "The A Team" were originally all recorded in this manner but not released to the public . When asked about his inspiration behind the Grammy nominated hit, Sheeran shared, "The A Team is written about a woman that I met in a homeless shelter ." </P> <P> The video was taken at around Angel underground station in Islington, London, and was uploaded to YouTube on 22 April 2010 . It narrates the story of a girl addicted to drugs, living on the streets of London, played by Selina MacDonald . She tried to sell The Big Issue magazines for money, but only managed to sell one to Sheeran . The girl struggled so much that she resorted to selling her body to earn money . She may not have loved it, but it provided her with a general income . Later on, the pain became too much for her to bear and she just wanted to end it all . She traded in her "dirty" money for drugs, referencing the lyric "...and in a pipe she flies to the motherland ." In the end, the girl succumbs to her drug abuse and dies . Some relative, or perhaps friend finds her dead, hence at the beginning of the video where she is found and someone is looming over her seeming to be mourning her death . An acoustic, unplugged version of the song was also uploaded onto the official Ed Sheeran YouTube page on 10 May 2011 . </P> <P> Ed Sheeran performed the song on Late Night with Jimmy Fallon on 30 March 2012 and on the talk show Conan on 8 May 2012 . Sheeran performed an acoustic version of the song live at the Diamond Jubilee Concert in front of Queen Elizabeth II on 4 June 2012 . Sheeran performed the song on The Ellen DeGeneres Show along with "Grade 8" on 4 October 2012 and on Jimmy Kimmel Live! along with "You Need Me, I Don't Need You" on 19 December 2012 . Sheeran also performed "The A Team" as a duet with Elton John at the 2013 Grammy Awards on 10 February 2013 . </P>

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