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It is interesting that despite Candy being a huge seller and shifting over half a million it didn't make the top 20 best sellers of the year, yet the album was the 13th best seller of 2012 despite it's sales being disappointing. Goes to show how low albums are these days.

I am sure he will perform at the BRITS - would be good promo for the third single (Be A Boy or Gospel but should be Into The Silence) but he will probably end up doing 'Candy;. I can see him getting nominated for Best Male and at the push Best Video or Single but I'd be surprised if he won another BRIT. Olly Murrs or Ed Sheeran are surely the faves?

Enjoy it? People seem to love it or hate it. I have it on my list to watch but am addicted to Boardwalk Empire at the moment. Nearly finished it now - one of the best shows on TV at the moment - although nothing comes close to Breaking Bad :wub: Saw the Dark Knight Rises and really enjoyed it - nowhere near as good as the Dark knight but still very enjoyable. Tom Hardy was great as Bane. Cannot wait to Tarantinos new film Django Unchained - looks amazing.

Different is by far the biggest flop of his career. Very odd seeing as it's a very normal sounding Robbie song. Coming off Candy which has now become the third biggest selling song he has ever released - it's an odd one. I fear this on top of the fact that the album has not performed as well as expected could well lead to an entire album of Candys :o

I can't pass up on seeing Bruce again - when I saw him three years ago it was probably the best gig I have ever seen. How much are there in Glasgow? I suppose when you considering he plays twice as long as most acts (4 and a half hours at a gig during the summer :o ). Various articles saying Rob could break his own record as the fastest selling tour in world history. Don't see how as even with the added dates there are not enough to sell over 1.6M tickets. Even if he sold all the dates out I doubt it would be over 1.5M tickets. He will be selling more in the UK than in 06 though which is interesting. http://www.digitalspy.co.uk/music/news/a44...h-new-tour.html

Delighted everyone her got tickets :D Are you going to go to both nights Jups? :P Still waiting on the Aviva date to be announced. It appears MCD (the promoter) are waiting till next week to announce it as they have a lot of gig announcements lately and probably need a sizable amount of Rihanna's Aviva tickets to sell before announcing another big stadium show that may impact on sales (not that there would be much of an overlap in Rob and Rihanna fans mind). They have also added a second Olly Murrs date at the O2 Dublin so may want to wait till they are happy with his ticket sales too. Either way all signs are that he will play here on June 14th- maybe even the 13th as well but as popular as Robbie is I can't see a second date, especially seeing the prices. I mean even the UK prices are a rip off so god knows how expensive they will be here. :lol: A lot of stadium gigs here this year has sold very poorly. It's really the first year that concert ticket sales have been effected in any significant way due to the recession. Madonna only sold about 33,000 at the Aviva during the summer and Lady Gaga only 37,000. Michael Buble is the only act to sell it out (he actually did two nights in 2010 but as there were seats on the bitch it was still less than 50,000 per nights. The full capacity of 65,000 has yet to occur. It appears the dates are selling very well - 4 nights at Wembley. I'id imagine there will be a fifth eventually - matching what he managed in 2006 (although obviously they had to be moved to Milton Keynes). Very odd he isn't doing the Millenium Stadium in Cardiff though. :blink: Hopefully it gets announced early next week though - our dreaded budget is on Wednesday so they need to get a move on before people truly are broke :lol: Bruce Springsteen tickets are on sale the day after the budget and are €100 each. No Dublin though - Limerick, Cork and Belfast. What I would do to be able to go to all three :lol:

Great interview here along with Jon Bon Jovi where Rob takes over and starts interviewing Jon himself :lol: O1cWWx--k9U

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Some great performances from The Voice - this time from Holland. His voice sounds great here - LMEY the best he's done in yonks. :D The Candy performance has been taken down. <_< HQClpLw97rk He needs to start singing other album tracks though. It's getting silly at this stage. Surely he is sick of singing Candy all the time?

All we need now is the tour announced :D I wouldn't be surprised if it happens this week while he reigns supreme over both charts but it may also be the week before the O2 gigs with tickets on sale the Monday following the TV broadcast.

The Daily Mail on Rob's side for once :o Blacklisting Rob has really backfired on R1 - the media have really latched onto Robbiegate :lol: Take That Nick Grimshaw! Robbie Williams's double delight as Take The Crown hits No.1 in album chart

But surely considering it's mainly young people who download the most - Candy's huge success proves he clearly is relevant to younger audiences too? If he was just selling albums you would have a point - but for someone of his age to have such a big hit - #1 for two weeks with likely sales exceeding 200K in total already clearly it is appealing to teenagers and 20 somethings. Most of his core fanbase would've got the single first week and the album this week - so I have no doubt loads of those downloading are not even typical Robbie fans at all. It does have a childish sound to it so it doesn't surprise me if it's appealing to kids. :lol: That Grimshaw person seems to be a tad dim though from his comments. Never heard a Robbie song? He's in his late 20's FFS - not 15. Robbie has been the number one pop act for most of Grimshaw's lifetime and he has somehow managed to avoid hearing a single track, despite "really liking him" :lol:

Most likely but also people and cherry picking tracks to download and not buying the whole album which is having a big effect. But really album sales are really bad these days - I had hoped he would've sold 150K + though but we will have to wait till tomorrow morning to find out. He better have sold over 100K anyway or I will be severely displeased. :smoke:

I haven't updated those sales in ages so I will need to have a look at them all this week when adding in TTC and Candy. :D Singles sales have always been difficult to calculate for Rob as his record company never gave them, although I do recall when IC was released - IE Music had on their website that he had sold 14M or 15M (can't remember which) singles. However I am nearly sure when I&OOC came out - single sales of 11M were claimed by EMI. Clearly this is way too low as his single sales in the Uk and Germany alone nearly amount to that. I think 15M up to 2005 is too high, although at one point it was claimed at 'Feel' had sold 4M copies globally and was by far his biggest selling song worldwide. I don't see where this figure could come from but it was a big hit internationally and even if it's peak positions were not very high (due to it being released after Escapology) it's chart runs were very impressive. It went top 10 in Canada and spent over a year in the chart for example. It sold at least 600,000 in the UK/Germany and France alone (GER and FRA sales are for a long time ago for with digital sales added it would be far more now). So it's difficult - 19M singles is most likely too high as I did add the 4M that was reported for 'Feel' - but I think he has easily exceeded 15M singles at this stage. As far as the TT sales go - I think the two Greatest Hits albums should be included as he sung on nearly every track on them. TT sales globally are very hard to calculate - but including the GH albums I would say around 19-20M albums - and about 11-12M singles globally - bringing the total to over 30M records with TT. The total record sales combined solo and TT without question exceeds 100M. ^_^

I can't see him selling 160K. He only sold 50K on Monday and Tuesday according to MW - looking at the other fast sellers of the year - by the Wednesday update: Emily Sande sold 66K (ended up selling 113k), Lana Del Rey shifted 70K (ended 116k), and Muse recently did 70K and ended on 108K - so it will be difficult to sell more considering he sold 50K. You never know though - but I am preparing to be disappointed by the sales but I reckon it will sell very well in the run up to Xmas and especially once his O2 show is broadcast. There has been zero promo on TV for the album this week which I don't get at all. And the promo from last week on the XF and GN was for Candy - no other tracks from the album have been performed, including the second single 'Different'. He needs to be showcasing the album so I don't see why he wasn't on the likes of Daybreak and This Morning like he was for RKTVS performing other tracks. Universal have done a good job so far so maybe it's part of a long term plan. :wacko:

Hopefully we will get sales soon. They will no doubt be a disappointment compared to his previous opening weeks but him getting the double #1 will help make up for it :D If you add the #1's he had as part of TT - he now has 14 #1 albums and 14 #1 singles. :lol:

Rob has achieved a double #1 this week - 'Take The Crown' is his 10th #1 solo album (14th #1 including TT albums he was apart of), putting him ahead of Michael Jackson, Abba, Queen and Bruce Springsteen and tied with U2 in the position of 4th most #1 albums in UK history. Candy is #1 for the second week - the first double #1 he has had since SwingWYW/Something Stupid in 2001. UK Albums Top 10 1 Robbie Williams - Take The Crown http://www3.hmv.co.uk/hmv/Large_Images/HMV/3716807.JPG Chart Run: 1 [1 wk] Release date: 05-11-2012 Format: CD Number of Discs: 1 Catalogue Number: 3716807 Label: island Video here: gtOV7bp-gys Candy As Robbie Williams looks to the future with the release of the incredible 'Take The Crown' – his ninth studio album – it might also be interesting to remember some his considerable achievements so far. In a career strewn with awards, Robbie has quite simply sold more records than any other British solo artist in history. Having sold a staggering 60 million albums over his solo career, Robbie has also won more Brit awards than any other artist in history (a grand total of 17, to be precise). - HMV "After the Take That reunion – a busman's holiday, a break from my career which re-energised me in many, many ways – i wanted to come back with a massive solo album. My main priority was to write what I consider, and hopefully what the world would consider, to be hits. I'm very excited". Robbie Williams Track Listing 1. Be A Boy 2. Gospel 3. Candy 4. Different 5. Shit On The Radio 6. All That I Want 7. Hunting For You 8. Into The Silence 9. Hey Wow Yeah Yeah 10. Not Like The Others 11. Losers-Feat. Lissie Deluxe Edition 12. Reverse 13. Eight Letters Album Chart history (Year peak title): 1997 01 Life Thru A Lens 1998 01 I've Been Expecting You 2000 01 Sing When You're Winning 2001 01 Swing When You're Winning 2002 01 Escapology 2003 02 Live At Knebworth 2004 01 Greatest Hits 2005 01 Intensive Care 2006 01 Rudebox 2009 02 Reality Killed The Video Star 2010 01 In And Out Of Consciousness - Greatest Hits 1990 - 2010 2012 01 Take The Crown http://www.buzzjack.com/forums/uploads/group_images/of_50.png Thanks to Jester

Combined 'Candy is still about 6% ahead and considering it's been 10-15% ahead Sunday-early today then it's looking good for another week at #1 but sales are going to be very close.

Grimshaw 'total nob' for calling Robbie Williams too old for Radio 1 The Guardian Magic DJ Neil Fox in Twitter tirade after rival breakfast host defends station's decision to omit Candy from playlist BBC Radio 1 breakfast host Nick Grimshaw has been branded a "total nob" by a rival breakfast DJ for declaring Robbie Williams "irrelevant" to his listeners, despite the artist claiming the No 1 slot in the charts for his latest single, Candy. The Tuesday morning war of words was sparked after Grimshaw told 5 News that Williams was too old for his audience, confirming that Radio 1 has deliberately omitted Candy from the station's playlist. "I don't know if he's now for a Radio 1 audience. I've never listened to a Robbie Williams song, but I really like him," said Grimshaw. "To 13- and 14-year-olds, he's not relevant – they've got One Direction. I liked Take That when I was little, but I'm not little anymore," the Radio 1 DJ added. Williams's single, his 14th No 1, sold more than 130,000 copies last week to reach the top spot in the official chart on Sunday. The 38-year-old is one of the most successful British artists of the past 20 years, launching a solo career in 1995 after quitting Take That and selling tens of millions of albums in the UK and Europe. He was reunited with Take That in 2010 for a new album, Progress, and sellout tour. Radio 1's decision not to give Candy much airplay will be seen as part of a strategic repositioning for the station, which is seeking to focus more tightly on its target audience of 15- to 29-year-olds, as set out in its BBC Trust remit. However, Magic Breakfast presenter Neil Fox reckons it is a sign of how out of touch Radio 1 is with its listeners. He tucked straight into Grimshaw on Tuesday morning, tweeting "Brainless @grimmers @R1Breakfast claims @robbiewilliams is too old & irrelevant for today's teenagers! Some advice.. Stop being a total nob." In a second tweet, Fox said: "Scary how many people seem to agree with my thought re @grimmers being a #totalnob over his @robbiewilliams comments! It's true though." Agreeing with Fox, Andrew Gemmell, one of his followers tweeted: "@NeilDoctorFox @r1breakfast It's crazy that R1 have an age limit of 22 or so. Imagine who we'd have lost if that was true 20 yrs ago!" Candy was left off the playlist at Radio 1 because station chiefs felt that it was too old for the station's demographic, whilst new acts such as One Direction and Calvin Harris are on heavy rotation according to Radio Today. Fox told Radio Today the decision "smacks of desperation" and will backfire on Radio 1. "I'm not the voice of youth but Radio 1 are crazy for saying they're not playing his new song. He'll still be popular when One Direction have split up," he said. "I don't know Nick – I'm sure he's a nice guy, but it will be interesting to see how long he lasts now his honeymoon period is over." A spokesman for Radio 1 said Candy was not banned from the station but was not on the A list of highly rotated tracks, adding that Grimshaw had played the track on Monday's show. "Each track is considered for the playlist based on its musical merit and whether it is right for our target audience, with decisions made on a case-by-case basis. It is not a question of an artist's age but whether they are appropriate for our target audience of 15-29 year olds," he added. Insiders said artists like Adele and Ed Sheeran cross both Radio 1 and Radio 2, but Williams is deemed more suitable for the older audiences of the latter. The controversy was further fuelled after Jamie Oliver waded into the row demanding Radio 1 put him on the playlist. "We love Robbie what's the matter with them are they mad?" he said in an interview on 5 News. Radio 1 controller Ben Cooper, who took over in October last year, has been seeking to make the station appeal to a younger audience, following BBC Trust criticism that it was not focusing enough on its 15-29 target demographic. Cooper's biggest move so far was replacing Chris Moyles – like Williams, 38 – with Grimshaw, 28, as Radio 1 breakfast show host last month. He has also moved on presenters of specialist shows including Gilles Peterson, who switched to BBC Radio 6 Music. Since joining Radio 1 in 2007 on the BBC's youth strand Switch, Grimshaw has had a turbo-charged career ascent, standing in for fellow DJ Annie Mac for nine months in 2007 and 2008 and then quickly promoted to the weekend breakfast slot where he reigned for nine months up to May 2009. He then landed the 10pm to midnight slot once occupied by John Peel and vacated after the departure of Colin Murray. The row has echoes of a dispute between Radio 1 and veteran rockers Status Quo, who started high court action after they were similarly kept off the play list for being "too dull" in 1996 as the station made a bid to improve its youth credentials. Radio 1 DJ John Peel applauded the writ as a cunning publicity stunt which got the band back in the headlines everywhere. In the same year Radio 1 also refused to put The Beatles' Real Love on its playlist, saying it was not what listeners wanted to hear. Paul McCartney wrote an angry comment piece for the Daily Mirror criticising the "kindergarten kings of Radio 1". The song went to number four in the UK singles chart. Three years later, Cliff Richard then 58, got his 14th UK No 1 with charity single The Millennium Prayer, despite being denied airplay on radio stations around the country including Radio 1 and Radio 2. The charity single, which was the Lord's Prayer sung to Auld Lang Syne was panned by the critics but it became the third-best selling single of his career up to then after a campaign through churches and the internet. Williams spokesman said he had no comment to make about Radio 1's decision. Candy is Williams first UK No 1 in eight years and the 14th of his career including Take That, putting him on equal footing with his former bandmate Gary Barlow and on a par with Cliff Richard. Candy is also Williams's fastest-selling single in the UK since Rock DJ hit the top spot 12 years ago, and with 137 000 copies sold this week, it's the fastest-selling male artist single of the year, and the third fastest-selling single of 2012 overall. Williams has played four dates this year and has three further sell-out gigs coming up at London's O2. Robbie Williams on Radio 1 row: If they play Madonna I'll break their legs METRO EXCLUSIVE: Robbie Williams says he’s not taking his Radio 1 ban to heart – but if the station plays Madonna or Coldplay, he’ll march over and ‘break their legs’. The Candy singer was full of spirit as we caught up at his Marmite Oxford Street Christmas Lights gig as he also happily explained the intention behind a new song he features on, singing about penises. On the Radio 1 row, the 38-year-old resisted rubbing his 14th No.1 in the station’s face... kind of. DJ Nick Grimshaw earlier defended Radio 1’s decision to ban Robbie Williams’s chart-topping single, Candy, from the playlist, questioning his ‘relevance’ to the station’s target demographic of 15-29. ‘I don’t know if he’s now for a Radio 1 audience,’ said Grimmy, who was quick to point out the attack was not personal. ‘I’ve never listened to a Robbie Williams song but I really like him. ‘To 13- and 14-year-olds he’s not relevant... they’ve got One Direction. I liked Take That when I was little but I’m not little any more,’ the 28-year-old radio jock told Channel 5 News. After topping the charts Robbie insisted he wasn't looking for revenge, saying: ‘It’s not really about having the last laugh. Radio 1 goes through the government. The government’s given them a remit to appeal to 17- to 24-year-olds, obviously I don’t fit in to that and that’s OK. ‘They’ve got a job to do and a business to look after and they’ve always been incredibly supportive of me and for that I thank them very, very much. If they never play a record of mine again, I thank them for the support they have given me and, if they do, then bless them too.’ Rounding off a sarcastic truce, he added: ‘Nothing’s personal, it’s not a vendetta against Robbie Williams but they better not play Coldplay or Madonna or I’ll break their legs.’ Turning his attention to his pants after featuring on a Chris Moyles track called I.L.M.P (I Love My Penis), he explained: ‘I haven’t written a song with Chris Moyles, I’ve appeared on a song that Chris Moyles has written and it’s about enjoying one’s penis.’ And in case you were wondering, the married star does that ‘by being an admirer of making love to yourself’. Meanwhile, the singer says he’s ready to expand the family already after he and his wife, Ayda Field, recently welcomed daughter Teddy. He added: ‘I do plan to have more kids. I don’t but the wife does.’ RW.com

Well the fact that is is looking likely that Candy will get a second week at #1 this week proves the theory that it's all down to the XF performance wrong (afterall he was zooming up the Itunes chart and was already #2 before the performance). He's done no TV performance of Candy this week and yet is still selling very strongly and considering his core fanbase would be buying the album this week and not downloading the single - it's clearly appealing to younger music buyers than you suggest. Many Robbie fans don't even like Candy and the initial reaction was very mixed but I knew it was clearly released to appeal to a younger crowd and it paid off for him. Why would the second single fail to make the top 40? The only flop single he's had is 'Morning Sun' and that was because he did no promo for it and had forgot he even had an album out at that stage and moved onto the whole TT reunion. His last second single (You Know Me) went to #6 and sold more than the lead single (Bodies). Different should go top 10 if it's promoted and has a good video. Radio airplay should be good as it's commercial - he will probably do it at the Royal Variety and is likely going to appear on SCD. And who knows - he may well be back on the XF final too. Most of the younger pop acts in the UK come, have a few hits and then very quickly lose relevance as the kids move on - Rob is the biggest selling British solo act in history and 22 years in the business and still having #1 singles and #1 albums and will no doubt sell out stadiums all over the globe next summer. He's certainly not irrelevant - if he was he simply wouldn't be selling singles by the bucket load, he'd only be an album seller. Or he would be properly irrelevant like so many older acts and sell feck all new music and would be reduced to doing a greatest hits tour and maybe release a Xmas covers album. It's very rare for someone around as long as he has and especially these days with downloading to still be getting #1 singles.

I would hope Music Week will give his up to date total UK album sales next week with TTC being released. RKTVS has sold either slightly under or slightly over a million now. Those figs Better Man posted were I last I could find too but Rudebox had sold 514,000 - I remember that beig the last updated fig for it. According to Music Week from late September - Rob has sold 14.1M albums so far since 2000 in the UK. If you add his 97-00 sales it brings the total to 19.85M in the UK. Your figures on your site look good Better Man - the latest official total is 60M albums. The exact sales of each album to bring it up to that total are difficult to estimate as EMI never give a breakdown. When RKTVS was released he was on 55M - a year later the figure was 'over 57M' for the IAOOC album. RKTVS has now sold around 3M and IAOOC probably near to 2M or maybe more considering it is shipments we are taking about = bringing it to 60M. Single sales wise - he was on 7.6M prior to 'Candy' - so he should be up to 8M by the end of the year.

Yep but they are nowhere as big as they were in 2009. :lol: I will be amazed if Rob doesn't get to #1. I am expecting over 200K first week sales. RKTVS did nearl 240K first week and has sold aroud 1M copies in the UK but that was in 2009 so if TTC can manage that in todays climate it will be a huge success.

Well done to Robbie - great to see him back at #1 after so long. I'm no fan of Candy but i'm delighted for it as you can really tell how much it means to him this time around and it's good to see how many non-Rob fans online are pleased for him. The sales are huge and it's still #1 on Itues. I can't see a second week at #1 but it will certainly sell very well this week, especially with the album version added on. The album should have no problem netting him his 10th #1 album - putting him ahead of Michael Jackson, Abba, Queen and Bruce Springsteen and tied with U2 in the position of 4th most #1 albums in UK history.

Robbie Williams returns to number one spot BBC News http://news.bbcimg.co.uk/media/images/63921000/jpg/_63921629_wy4228kd.jpg Robbie Williams is celebrating his first solo UK number one for eight years, after Candy topped the official singles chart. Some 137,000 copies of Candy were sold this week, according to the Official Charts Company - the fastest-selling single by a male artist this year. It marks the 14th number one for Williams, including his years with Take That, and his seventh solo number one. It draws him level with bandmate Gary Barlow, who co-wrote the current hit. Williams, 38, said he was "chuffed" to have reached "the top spot". "Good work Team Williams and thanks to everyone who got it there," he told the OfficialCharts.com. "I'm so excited about this album and this is a great start." The new album, Take The Crown, is released on Monday. Lukewarm response Following his departure from Take That in the mid-1990s, Williams went on to sell 60 million solo albums and win 17 Brit Awards. But his two most recent solo albums received a lukewarm critical response and failed to match up to the extraordinary commercial success of his earlier work. The star re-joined Take That in 2010, as the group released their first new music together for 15 years, touring with them on their record-breaking Progress UK stadium tour last year. Emeli Sande, who picked up three Mobos at the weekend, slipped back into second place in the singles chart with Beneath Your Beautiful, while Adele's James Bond theme tune Skyfall made the top five. Williams' contemporary, Kylie Minogue, failed to take the number one spot in the album chart, with her album The Abbey Road Sessions settling for second place behind DJ and songwriter Calvin Harris, with 18 Months.

He was great on the LLS. Best Candy performance so far - he got the crowd to sing it back to him much to his delight. :D Usually the LLS crowd are very bored looking but they were all up dancing with him going up the steps through the crowd and even snogging a women for ages (he later asked her if she had eaten garlic :lol: ). The interviewer is useless though and harped on endlessly with questions about Teddy and barely mentioned anything else. Rob went on about Candy being #1 in the UK and said it is #2 in Ireland and he pleaded for people to make it and the album #1. It was very funny :lol: