Robbie Williams Triumphantly Returns to pick up the 'Outstanding Contribution to Music' Award At the 30th BRITs Ceremony. The UK's recorded music association, The BPI, today unveiled the recipient of the prestigious Outstanding Contribution to Music Award.

Robbie Williams, who has won more BRITs than any other artist, will be awarded with the coveted trophy at The BRIT Awards 2010 with MasterCard on Tuesday 16 February. Robbie will take to The BRIT Awards stage to close the show with a sensational live performance sure to entertain the packed audience at London's Earls Court as well as the millions of viewers watching live on ITV1.

Ged Doherty, Chairman of The BRITs Committee said, "Robbie is one of the outstanding artists and performers of his generation. It will be an absolute thrill to have him at the BRITS 30th anniversary show receiving the Outstanding Contribution Award. We are delighted."

With a career spanning twenty chart topping years, Robbie Williams made his first appearance in 1989 as a member of Take That. As a solo artist Robbie's career went stratospheric selling more albums in the UK than any other British artist and holding the astounding record of winning more BRIT Awards than any other artist - he already has a staggering eleven in total. He carved out a successful run of number one hit songs including 'Angels', 'She's The One', 'Rock DJ' and 'Something Stupid' and amassed over 55 million album sales worldwide while his stadium tours saw 1.6 million tickets being sold in a single day.

Robbie Williams has made a spectacular return to the limelight with his hugely successful new single 'Bodies' taken from his eighth studio album 'Reality Killed The Video Star' which will be released on November 9 on EMI's Virgin Records.

The BRIT Awards 2010 are proud to have Robbie Williams return to its stage. He was awarded his first BRIT in 1999 for Best British Male Artist and went on to consecutively win more categories for another five years running. In 2005 he performed his biggest hit 'Angels' live on stage alongside songstress Joss Stone and at an earlier BRITs, 1998, he dueted with one of his heroes Tom Jones.

Robbie's track record at The BRIT Awards is remarkable:

As Robbie Williams

- British Male - 1999, 2001, 2002, 2003

- BRITs 25 - Best Song Award for 'Angels' in 2005

- British Single for 'Angels' in 1999, 'She's The One' in 2000, 'Rock DJ' in 2001

- British Video for 'Millenium' in 1999; 'She's the One' in 2000; ''Rock DJ' in 2001

As member of Take That

- British Single 'Could it be Magic' 1993

- British Single 'Pray' in 1994

- British Single 'Back for Good' in 1996

- British Video for 'Pray' in 1994

- Greatest number of BRIT Nominations....

32 nominations in total - 22 as a solo artist and has won 11.

He has also had 9 nominations as a member of Take That and won 4

Robbie Williams will receive this prestigious award, a gift from the Council of the BPI, and perform live at The BRITs 2010 with MasterCard on February 16.

Williams is also nominated in ‘British Male Solo Artist’.

(source: brits.co.uk)

The evening will forever go down in history as having witnessed the happy reunion of long lost pals who decided to jive together again on stage after 15 years for a cause.

At a musical night at the iconic Royal Albert Hall in London, in aid of the Children in Aid charity, crooner Robbie Williams jammed with front man Gary Barlow and other band mates from 'Take That'. It was a reunion that the world has been waiting to witness ever since the popular British band of the 90's resurfaced with their new album after a longish spell in the wilderness.

The band shot to fame in the 90's with their teen pop fare which went on to become a rage worldwide. For a time, they were even held in league with the 'Beatles' in terms of popularity. However, after the ruling the charts for a considerable length of time the band sadly split up in 1995 as Robbie decided to walk away to chart a successful solo career.

Speaking of his performance Robbie said, that he could barely help the tears before joining 'Take That' on stage and that he wanted to live the moment a bit longer since they felt happy being back together.

Said Gary of the reunion, "It's been lovely. There's been a good excuse to be at the Albert Hall tonight. It feels like this last year, we've had Rob back in our lives. Here we areon stage and let's hope it's the beginning of more of it." (source: newspostonline.com)

Robbie Williams has confirmed that he has already been with Take That in the studio to record new songs. The singer joined his old band briefly on stage at the London Royal Albert Hall for a Children In Need gig on Thursday (November 12), and now he has confirmed that rumours about studio sessions are true.

“Oh sod it, we’ve been in and the songs are absolutely amazing,” he said in a BBC Radio 2 interview set for broadcast on Christmas Day. He claimed that the songs sound “incredibly great”. Williams did not reveal any kind of release plan for the new material.

Ticket’s for Robbie’s live performance in Sydney on Wednesday, 25th November, are the hottest tickets in town and go on sale on 19th November, but ahead of that we have two pairs to give away!

Robbie will be appearing at The Metro at the end of the month to give an exclusive, full live performance at this very intimate venue and all you have to do to be in with a chance of being there on the night is answer the question: What Sydney venue did Robbie perform at in 2006 as part of his epic Close Encounters tour?.

The competition closes at 21:00 AEST on Tuesday, 17th November.

More details on: www.robbiewilliams.com/news-blogs/win-tickets-to-see-robbie-at-sydneys-metro

(source: robbiewilliam.com)

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