Ed Sheeran made a welcome return to The X Factor this evening (26th October), performing his new single Thinking Out Loud on the hit programme’s results-show.

The performance, which coincides with the track’s rise to No.2 in this week’s Official UK Singles’ Charts, also saw the first time Thinking Out Loud had been played live on UK TV, and massively-justified the reason why Sheeran’s latest album X has become the fastest-selling album in the UK this year.

This weekend’s The X Factor saw fsdfjsfsd become the latest act to be eliminated from the competition.

Thinking Out Loud is out now via the iTunes link – press play below to watch the performance in full (LQ at the moment, but we’ll replace with a higher-quality recording when available).