<P> Worldwide, the song reached one billion streams on Spotify in June 2017 . It became the most streamed song on Spotify in September 2017, reaching 1,318,420,396 streams overtaking Drake's "One Dance". </P> <P> On 5 January 2017, to accompany the song's release, a lyric video for "Shape of You" was released on Sheeran's YouTube channel with "Castle on the Hill". As of April 2018, the official lyric video has amassed over 760 million views on YouTube . </P> <P> On 30 January 2017, the song's official music video, starring American dancer and model Jennie Pegouskie and retired professional sumo wrestler Yamamotoyama Ryūta (credited as "Yama"), was released on Sheeran's channel . It was shot on location in Seattle, and was directed by Jason Koenig . On 8 May 2017, 97 days after its release, it became one of the fastest music videos to reach 1 billion views on YouTube, and as of April 2018, the music video has amassed over 3.4 billion views on the site . and is the site's third most - watched video . </P> <P> The official remix of "Shape of You" features newly additional verses and guest vocals by English grime artist Stormzy . The remix premiered during Sheeran and Stormzy's live collaboration at the 2017 Brit Awards at The O2 in London on 22 February 2017 . Sheeran announced on Twitter that the remix would be released officially on 24 February 2017 . On the same date, various remixes of the song were released on digital music services . Sheeran teased the releases ahead of 2017 Brit Awards ceremony . "I've got two things dropping on Friday that are pretty interesting", he revealed in a BBC Radio 1 interview just hours before the big show . "One that gets debuted at the Brits, which I think people will go a bit nuts for ." He added, "It's something that I think nobody is expecting . I think it'll be decent ." </P>

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