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Robert
Peter Williams (born 13 February 1974) is a Grammy Award
nominated, 15-time BRIT Award-winning English singer-songwriter.
His career started as a member of the pop band Take That in 1990.
He left Take That in 1995 to begin his solo career, after selling
25 million records with the group. Since then, Robbie Williams has
sold more albums in the United Kingdom than any other British solo
artist in history. He has sold 70 million records worldwide. His
album sales stand at over 53 million, with singles sales over 17
million. Williams entered in the The Guinness Book of World
Records when he announced his World Tour for 2006, selling 1.6
million tickets in one single day. He has been the recipient of
many awards, including fifteen BRIT and six ECHO awards. In 2004,
he was inducted into the UK Music Hall of Fame, after being voted
as the Greatest artist of the 1990s. Robbie Williams is the artist
that is currently featured the most times in the UK Now That's
What I Call Music! series. In the first 68 Now!'s he has appeared
29 times (including 4 times with Take That). His first appearance
was with Take That on Now 22 and his most recent appearance was on
Now 66 with "She's Madonna". On 16 January 2008 it was
announced that Robbie had been working on some songs with former
Ian Dury and the Blockheads star Chaz Jankel ... more |
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