British pop star Robbie Williams has quit record label EMI after 15 years and signed a lucrative new deal to relaunch his solo career. The Angels singer has been on EMI’s talent roster since quitting Take That and launching himself as a solo artist back in 2006, but he has now announced he will be joining Universal Music to make his comeback with a new album next year (12). Read the rest…
The singer – who recently finished a tour with his old boy band Take That – has been working on lyrics for his ninth album at his Los Angeles home, and thinks the results are his best ever. He wrote on his blog: “Lyric progress? I wrote everything I needed to finish – aren’t I a good boy? Read the rest…
Band’s new LP is ‘fastest-selling album of the century’, according to the Official Charts Company
Two weeks after smashing the record for ticket sales with their comeback tour, Take That’s new LP, Progress, has become the “fastest-selling album of the century”, according to the Official Charts Company. While this is just a hyperbolic phrasing of a more modest truth – it’s the fastest-selling album since 1997 – the LP sold a staggering 235,000 copies on the day of release.
Despite Take That’s mammoth Monday success, they have still to beat Oasis, whose third album, Be Here Now, sold a bewildering 424,000 copies on 21 August 1997. Over the next two days, Oasis saw first-week sales grow to 696,000. Take That may yet unseat Oasis for the overall first-week record, but only through canny scheduling, releasing Progress so early in the week. Read the rest…
Here’s a tracklist of the upcoming Take That album “Progress”.
Take That have unveiled the artwork for their first album as a five piece in fifteen years. The manband, who will release Progress on 22nd November, have stripped off for the album cover which shows the lads recreating the famous human evolution scene on a bright yellow background. Read the rest…
Robbie Williams in Take That with Gary, Mark, Jason and Howard sings brand new song “The Flood”. The single premier was today (October 8th 2010) on BBC Radio One. Single premier as digital download will be on November 14en, CD single will be out on November 15en. Video premiere will be on Friday OCT 15en. 30 seconds teaser is on Youtube: www.youtube.com/watch?v=bANe1h1ELIk.
The video for the single was filmed on Dorney Lake in Berkshire, which will play host to the rowing events at the 2012 Olympics. The video features the five members of the band racing against another crew in specially-made five-seater Sculling boats, wearing old-fashioned white rowing kits, bearing a custom-designed Take That crest.(source: Wikipedia)
Take That have revealed that their new album, which features Robbie Williams for the first time in fifteen years, will be called Progress. The newly reunited manband will release their first LP together in just over a decade on 22nd November, thought to be the same date as boyband JLS’ second offering. Read the rest…
Re-live 20 years of Robbie’s career with a trio of new formats, just added to his “In And Out Of Consciousness: The Greatest Hits 1990-2010 album range”. The three new additions offer something for everybody, including B-sides and rarities, a music video collection and even a previously unreleased live DVD! Read the rest…
Robbie Williams song “Morning Sun” will be released as this year’s single for BBC charity Sport Relief.
The song, taken from his album “Reality Killed The Video Star”, will be released on 8 March, ahead of the Sport Relief weekend which runs from 19 to 21 March. Williams said he was “very happy” to be involved. “Please join us in helping this very worthwhile cause,” he added. This week, the singer is due to record his contribution to the Helping Haiti charity single “Everybody Hurts”. Read the rest…
Williams announced last week at BBC Electric Proms that the next single will be “You Know Me”.
“You Know Me” follows hot on the heels of Bodies, Robbie’s biggest selling single since Rock DJ in 2000. Bodies charted in the top three across Europe, with No.1s in Germany, Austria, Switzerland and Italy and entry to the UK charts at No.2. Read the rest…
Brand new Williams’ album will be available in US market in digital version on November 10th by EMI’s Virgin Records.
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