How many robbie williams albums

Robbie Williams is a British singer, born in , who broke over the main audience as part of the teen pop band Take That in He then started a highly successful solo career in Robbie Williams is a pure UK pop singer, known for his catchy tunes and iconic ballads. He cleverly switches time to time to classier albums of Swing or Christmas music. Yes, numbers we post here show that while he did sell some records in the US, his success there is pretty irrelevant in comparison to his monstrous fame in Europe or in Latin America.

There is no rule about singers from bands going solo. This is the case of Robbie Williams who was only 15 when he embarked into the Take That story, a story primarily written by 3-years older Gary Barlow. This difference of status was visible when both debuted solo in The first two singles of the latter topped UK charts, following the route of Take That. By single 4, they were both already struggling to hit the top 10, failing to be as strong as their former band.

The 5th single is the pivotal one. The one of Barlow peaked at 16, the next one at 24 and then his career was gone for 10 years. The 5th one of Williams though was Angels. It debuted at 7, a good showing for him in a chart massively fan base-driven back then. When songs used to collapse instantly though, Angels held a Top 10 placing for an impressive 12 weeks, ultimately hitting 4 while selling over a million.

The rest is history. From that point, the singer became an unstoppable sales beast, getting hits after hits. If you are not yet familiar with the CSPC method, the next page explains it with a short video. I fully recommend watching the video before getting into the sales figures. Of course, if you are a regular visitor feel free to skip the video and get into the figures. There are two ways to understand this revolutionary concept. The first is the Scribe video posted below. If you are unaware of the CSPC method, you will get the full idea within just a few minutes.

If you are a mathematical person, and want to know the full method as well as formulas, you can read the full introduction article. The career of Robbie Williams replicated perfectly the one of Take That , but with even bigger numbers. That is, it started with a huge success, Life Thru A Lens at 4 million, and then new albums which sold more and more thanks to larger and larger success abroad.

It notably shifted over 1. By the time Escapology came out, Robbie Williams was hands down the biggest pop star in most of the World, although he was still failing to do well in the US, Japan and France. Escapology made him big in the latter country as well as in Latin America while destroying charts all over Europe. It sold almost 8 million units globally in spite of only 2. Then came Intensive Care , the first album not to out-do all its predecessors, which still sold a whopping 6.

Rudebox was a brutal flop. Of course, selling 2. The superstar went from breaking the World record for most concert tickets sold in a day at 1. While he never recovered in full after this severe backlash, Robbie Williams managed to retain a very decent level of popularity in the long run.

In he released Swings Both Ways , following the highly successful concept album he released 12 years earlier. This worked to perfection with nearly 2 million sales. The Heavy Entertainment Show was his first album to miss the million mark.

In , with no contribution from the US and Japan, this had to be expected. New album The Christmas Present , out for 3 weeks, has an estimated net shipment to date at ,, a figure which will likely end the year a bit higher. These sales add up for By the way, these numbers do not include The Ego Has Landed , the album issued in aiming to break through the US market, since it contains songs from the first two studio albums.

This set sold 1. As a reminder, the weighting is done with a 10 to 3 ratio between one album and one physical single. Stand-alone single Freedom , a , units seller, gave the opportunity to the singer to record and release a full album. At first, it seemed the opportunity was kinda wasted. Life Thru A Lens debuted at 11 and left the top after a mere 4 weeks, proof that singles failed to gained momentum among the general public.

This is exactly what Angels did. With it, the album moved from all the way up to 1 while popping up on charts of multiple countries. He then entered on a roll with all his singles going Top 10 in the UK. In fact, he got there 21 times in a row. It took the arrival of downloads, more democratic and less axed around fan base purchases, to see him miss this target.

Although the market was going down, the lack of hits from Rudebox is quite obvious. The only rebound afterwards has been made by Bodies. As a reminder, the weighting is done with a 10 to 1,5 ratio between one album and one digital single. The classic song remains very popular in the UK. Elsewhere, while it may not be as massive, it remains a pretty relevant hit, including in the US. It would be wrong to believe that the expect inflates scores of all songs from Robbie Williams.

A good example is Better Man , mostly unknown there but among his top tracks in places like Australia. Rock DJ and Feel add for other a million sales combined thanks to decent catalog sales in every continent.

Tripping was the first single to come out after the introduction of iTunes. The song was huge in Europe, especially in France where it was the 2nd highest seller of Once the digital market exploded, the pop star kinda lost it, failing to record new hits to fully enjoy this new sales avenue.

Bodies still did well in while Candy was quite big in both the UK and Germany in This success added to the much better context place it at the very top among his top digital sellers with 1. Streaming is made up of audio and video streams. Our CSPC methodology includes both to better reflect the real popularity of each track. The main source of data for each avenue is respectively Spotify and YouTube. In order to account for their real popularity in each relevant country, the below sources have been used along with the mentioned ratios that reflect the market share of each area.

Audio Stream value — plays equal 1 album unit Video Stream value — 11, views equal 1 album unit. While the top position occupied by Angels is no surprise, there is a lot of interesting information in this table. Starting with Angels , the song is on its way to hit million streams on Spotify.

Feel is a very solid runner up with , EAS from streams. But that doesn't mean it's Rob's best. It's by no means a bad album, but we rarely feel a need to listen to duets with Jonathan Wilkes, Jon Lovitz or Rupert Everett in Robbie returned to his love of swing 12 years later, and it's higher on the list than its predecessor purely because it has more original songs on it. Plus, the song choices are far less obvious.

Taking on the likes of 'Dream a Little Dream' and '16 Tons' is far more interesting. Time will tell if the duets on this album Olly Murs, Lily Allen etc will become dated like the first, but they're far better so far.

Best tracks: 'Be a Boy', 'Candy', 'Losers'. While Robbie launched Take the Crown with one of his most catchy and best-selling singles in years in the form of 'Candy', the rest of the album was nothing like it. Again, TTC is a decent collection, but there simply just aren't that many memorable bangers compared to his other studio albums. Plus, we prefer Robbie a bit less "Coldplay stadium anthem". This was the first album without co-writer Guy Chambers on board, and you can feel the difference, not that it's a bad difference.

Kicking off the album with the awesome 'Ghosts', and the aggressive first line 'Here I stand victorious, the only man who made you come', it's quite the statement. It's an album that does sound great as a whole, but it's mostly filled with relatively unmemorable songs once you've finished listening to it. This album got a total mauling when it came out. And it was unfair, because it's actually a pretty decent album that summed up the mid-'00s obsession with 80s-style electro.

The problem was that he launched it with the title track 'Rudebox', which is easily the worst song on the album. Plus, Take That were riding high and he hit rehab just before its release. It's a bit of jumbled mess, but minus a couple of duffers in the middle, it's genuinely great. Judging from that long list of tracks, you'd think this would be a shoo-in for number one. However, the other half of the album, while still a great listen, can't help but sound like filler when compared to such '90s brilliance.

Robbie's first album couldn't be more different to his stuff with Take That back in the day, and he well and truly went down the Britpop route. And it worked it almost didn't — we'll thank 'Angels' for that. His partnership with Guy Chambers simply clicked. You could call this his forgotten album.