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On Friday, Feb-06, 2026 UK Albums Chart 59 2,600 (estimated) Robbie Williams - BRITPOP Waiting for next Friday! Very interesting to see.

Well, seems I read this article not so attentively :)))

I was interested is there a tribute song to Liam on the album (I'm sure you know it perfectly) and just learned there is. It's still very very sad but a good song. I'd say it's a little bit reminded to Snow Patrol's Run if it would be just a song. But it's not 'just a song'. Thanks, Louis.

Well, guys, last year was perfect for us based on Better Man activity first of all. While it's already February, 2026 I just wanted to say thank you all for our Forum. You know how great the old Robbie's forums were in the past. Sorry, I'm not so familiar with old TT forums but I'm sure they were great too. In the era all these forums passed away, BJ is a good place to share the emotions and news. Still like forums more than all social medias. Again, thank you for being here and for opportunity be together!! All the best to you and our faves. Anyway, let's see what we already did during this month - 2 times on 1st place! Still got it...comparing to 1D 😎 18th January 2026 01 86 Robbie Williams and Take That 02 78 Little Mix 03 63 Lady Gaga 04 45 Harry Styles and One Direction 05 31 Kylie and Dannii Minogue & 1st February 2026 01 98 Robbie Williams and Take That 02 96 Spice Girls 03 75 Lady Gaga 04 61 Little Mix 05 60 Harry Styles and One Direction

Is the date of its release already confirmed?

But in overall, it was a still good review anyway. But thank you for educate this person a little bit :) Listening the album now. I agree with somebody who told that all songs on it have a good an remarkable chorus. That's true.

Improving some literature skills - great advice! :)

Not official but good extended version of AML

Sure, waiting for that!

On BBC today with Kate Hudson and Paloma Faith

Congrats, Louis! I really like him and his style of music. Good luck with that era and next steps in his carreer.

Another fantastic review. And I'm not talking about any marks or how this man liked this album but I'm talking about the style of writing the review. From time to time I write texts about music, reviews but I would never write something like this. And yes, special thanks for 100% Beau, my fave song of the album (by now). BRITPOP - Robbie Williams- a reviewSean Bw Parker Jan 31, 2026 Noel Gallagher once called Robbie Williams ‘the fat dancer in Take That’, around the time Williams was extricating himself from his boyband past, determined to rock out. Then Angels and debut solo album Life Thru A Lens came along, and stole a by-then past-it Oasis’ Northern Ballad Anthem crown. That doesn’t stop Robbie channelling Liam Gallagher on BRITPOP’s All My Life, while scrutinising - or rather taking the piss out of - mental health jargon: ‘Go ahead, let’s have an intervention...maybe I’ve been crazy all my life’ he rasps. Since RW has been ‘a thing’, around the turn of the millennium, a familiar pub table round has been the females of the group loving his cheeky chappy ways, either wanting to take care of him or shag him. Meanwhile, the (heterosexual) male part of the gathering generally consider him to be a bit of a tosser. Jealousy? Maybe, but also a distrust of someone permanently presenting art-as-pisstake, and revelling in it as our hero so does. As long as you’re not expecting Dostoevsky, the lyrics are by turns very profound and a hoot, as seems to be the ADHD-tinged mind of their creator, ‘I keep reading my lyrics, they keep making me paranoid’ he sings on You, shortly after the creator of the original Paranoid riff, Black Sabbath’s Tony Iommi, kicked off the album on Rocket. Sometimes Robbie goes brilliantly punk, as on Comments Section and Bite Your Tongue, both circling around ‘free speech/censorship issues’, but he constantly lets the listener off in the chorus, going to the anthemic and predictable. It would be great to hear him pummel our synapses from beginning to end one day, because he does it very well. Speaking of Bite Your Tongue, it echoes fellow enormo-star Taylor Swift’s CANCELLED!, whose parent album shunted the release of BRITPOP to now, so as to maximise profits for his record company, i.e. not get ignored. This subtle willingness of big artistes to grasp the nettle of ‘forces’ telling them to mind their p’s and q’s is refreshing, not to mention important. The kids are paying attention (Robbie no doubt hopes). Old mucker Gary Barlow pops up as co-writer of Morrissey, wherein fellow northerners cite the guilty pleasures of The Smiths frontman’s utterly based ways, but who came up with his being ‘lost and lonely, hurt and abused’? Robbie or Gary? ‘I’m a little like you but a lot less worthy’ sounds more like it. Ah, these charming men. Desire with Laura Pausini, official FIFA anthem, almost lets the entire album down with its lazy, pointless, Coldplay-channelling ‘whoah-ohs’, almost as if it’s a required contractual requirement as a tie-in by the totally post-corruption football organisation and RW’s record company. Almost. Human, featuring Jesse and Joy, gets us back on sweet ‘n simple humanitarian Aquarian ground, and is Robbie at his most unaffected. But it’s Selfish Disco which the albums peerless high point to these ears, uniting the loner dweebs with the party girls under the Umbrella of Robbie, incredibly catchy, but also fun and honest. Best thing he’s ever done? Lazy Days and Rock DJ are banging millennial pop songs, but at 50 Robbie has pulled one out of the hat with this one too. Parallels to Lily Allen about, the West End Girl to Robbie’s Oldham Rock ‘n Roll Survivor, witty, semi-serious, still awash in now highly suspect celebrity stardust. Overall though, despite its postmodern mix n’ match pretensions, BRITPOP is also a love letter to wife of 16 years Ayda Field, as all his witty cultural psycho-spiritual insights are balanced with an acknowledgement that there is no counselling that can compare to the wit and warmth of a genuine loved one. And the album? As he says on 100% Beau - ‘Let’s not mess with the magic’. BRITPOP - Robbie Williams- a rev...BRITPOP - Robbie Williams- a reviewNoel Gallagher once called Robbie Williams ‘the fat dancer in Take That’, around the time Williams was extricating himself from his boyband past, determined to rock out.

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