January News

27. Janurary
Life Thru A Lens went platinum last week!
And again Angels went up to No 7 in the UK single charts...

25. Janurary
Apart from Life Thru A Lens still being Top 3 in the album chart nothing happened lately.
That gave me some time to listen to the b-sides of Angels to finally add those words to the Lyrics page!

And Karin from Germany just brought the news that Angels entered the Top 10 at No 10 in the German charts last week. Congratulations Rob!

21. Janurary
Angels has sold more than 470,000 copies- making him the most successful solo Take That star!
He is way ahead of former band pals Gary Barlow, Mark Owen, Howard Donald and Jason Orange.
Only Gary's debut single, Forever Love which sold 300,000, has come close to Robbie's sales.
Angels has even outperformed all but two of Take That's hits in this country-Back For Good, which shifted 950,000 copies, and How Deep Is Your Love, 650,000 copies.
Life Thru A Lens is also doing well. Still at No 3 in the charts it has notched up 210,000 sales and could overtake Gary's 250,000 for Open Road in the next ten days.
Mark is lagging behind badly but at least he has had a record out, so what about Howard and Jason?

Here's a breakdown of the T.T. races:
ROB-Singles: Freedom (270,000); Old Before I Die (170,000); Lazy Days (70,000); South Of The Border(40,000); Angels (470,000). Total: 1,020,000. Album: Life Thru A Lens, currently at No 3. Total: 210,000.
GARY BARLOW-Singles:Forever Love (300,000); Love Won't Wait (190,000); Open Road (90,000); So Help Me Girl (70,000). Total: 650,000.Album:Open Road, currently No 59. Total: 250,000.
MARK OWEN-Singels:Child (200,000); Clementine (120,000); I Am What I Am (20,000).Total: 340,000. Album: Green Man, currently out of the Top 75. Total: 150,000.
HOWARD DONALD-Singles: None. But a spokesman says:"He is still signed to RCA and is still working on ideas."
JASON ORANGE-Singles: None. Here a spokesman says:"Jason is pursuing an acting career."

Rob in the meantime went off to Jameica to work on his new album which is planned for October this year.

19. Janurary
Rob performed "There are bad times around the corner" at the charity bash on January 15th.
That song will appear on the tribute album which is due in April but Rob might as well release it as a future single with profits going to AIDS charities.

12. Janurary
And the nominees are...
Best Male: Robbie Williams, Gary Barlow, Elton John, Paul Weller and Finley Quaye.

You can also vote for your favourite song 1997 and win tickets for the Brit Awards:
Old Before I Die has been nominated for Best Single 1997!
To find out more visit the Official BRITs Homepage.

So good luck, everybody! And good luck, Rob!

11. Janurary
It's a constant up and down for Angels in the charts. Today it went up again to No 6!
Life Thru A Lens also jumped up 9 places to No 3 in the official UK album charts this week!
Well done, Rob!!

But not only in the Uk is he riding high: In Germany Angels is at No 37 in the official charts and on VIVA, Germany's biggest music television broadcaster, Angels got to No 1 in the VIVA charts, voted for by the VIVA text readers.

8. Janurary
This years Brit Awards will be held on February 9th at London's Docklands Arena. A full list of the nominees will be announced this coming Monday.
Will Rob be one of them?...

7. Janurary
London's Park Lane Hotel will be the host of a charity tribute to Noel Coward on January 15th
and Rob, Elton John, Suede and many more will be singing Coward songs.

Tickets for the bash cost £300 but all profits go to the Red Hot Aids Charitable Trust.

6. Janurary
Robbie has been nominated by the NME as Best Solo Artist (voted by NME readers)!

The NME Awards will be held at London's Brixton Academy on January 27 and will be shown on Channel 4 as well as broadcasted live on Radio 1.

The other nominees are Paul Weller, Beck, Björk, Natalie Imbruglia, Morressey, Louise, Finley Quaye, Sheryl Crow and Beth Orton.

5. Janurary
Robbie will be contributing a song for a Noel Coward tribute ablbum. The album is assembled by Pet Shope Boys singer Neil Tennant and will be released in April.

Angels appears on 49 in the UK Top 50 Best-Selling Singles of 1997! (With Gary Barlow and Mark Owen nowhere to be found...)

4. Janurary
 Slipping down one place to No 7 Angels still is very hot in the Pepsi Charts and also get's airplay nearly every hour!

2. January
Rob conquered a position in the Melody Maker's Reader Poll 1997 in the category of 'Best Solo Artist'. Take a look at the Top 10!:

1. Beck
2. Bjork
3. Paul Weller
4. Finley Quaye
5. Sheryl Crow
6. Robbie Williams
7. Nick Cave
8. Kylie Minogue
9. Morrissey
10. Natalie Imbruglia

1. January
Happy New Year everybody!

I'm back and ready for an exciting 1998. How about you?!
And what a great start: Angels is still climbing the charts: last weekend it went up one place to number 6. And Rob's album Life Thru A Lens also climbed one place to number 12!!
Nevertheless a new single is planned for next month and Rob already started the work for his new album. Now isn't that something to look forward to?

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