elisabeth1974

We had really some great Robbie treats the last months and weeks. What do you think is next until the concerts start again in 4 months? Family time?

yes

I agree, his art is impressive. Musicwise it might be the future to do what he likes to do without any huge album. I read Gary Barlow sold his music catalogue entirely to BMG in January. As much as I could google, Rob has sold some admin rights but not his catalogue, so he can still have a huge cash in with that if he wants to do it. What will the tours look like? How often? It will be interesting still.

Robbie/Ayda and clothing lines do net get hand in hand too well. I liked Farrell at its time a lot.

I doubt it more and more

so what plan do we suggest him to follow? :-)

oh Alex now I feel yesteryeared. Who is Olivia Dean? I have to check :-(

It is a difficult situation for most established artists. I am not following the charts actively, but I see that national music is taking quite some momentum in countries like Germany. I also read that very few of the artists who have been huge in the nineties and noughties see a huge amount of albums or have hit singles, aside they are doing a collab. Well, the collabs of Rob had also not been very successful. The one with Avicii was aside in the UK, but that is the last I remember as success. While people attend his concerts for the show this never lead to higher sales in the countries he visited in the last 15 years. For Take That it is worse as they do not sell even tickets in Europe despite they had been huge. I think Coldplay might be the only ones who maintained sales figures despite being around long. Don't know when I heard the last U2 hit single. Then you check out the hyped new artists like Youngblud (Hope I spelt it right) and you see that his sales are also limited. Simply strange times or times where variety counts. I think Robbie is the first who knows.

do we know if the rumour about the House in the Bahamas had been true?

wouldn't that be funny? Maybe they can do a duet

as far as I know Intensive Care was his best selling album, even better selling than Escapology. I often wonder what kind of fact check the writers of these articles do

It is very difficult for people in the UK to realize that while still many know TT from the nineties, but that's it. They had a great momentum in 2006 when they came back, but anything afterwards aside of Progress and the Progress tour was difficult to sell and venues often kept being empty. A reason why they are also not bringing the big tours to Europe not even the Circus the first time around. For many reasons people bought into Robbie in the rest of Europe but not into TT newer work. Like Katheryn said either you need to be invited for a slot in a show or talk show or bought in. Neither seem to have promised so important for Netflix as promising revenue that it had been done

Somehow I have always thought that Robbie would do an appearance at the BRITS. I cannot see this now with Harry Styles being invited.

I like that they all have aged gracefully, but how long 35 years are. Do you think that TT and Robbie have aligned their promo? They are separate acts but still they are also eternally linked and they all seem to be very supportive

this honesty is when I like him most

I don't get how they count it. The streaming and the sales of this week now and the pre-orders in February? As I think this must be a far higher quantity.

I wondered about this...... would be a further Brit Award record

I hope they have overthought the release on streaming and physical. Maybe they already know that the amount of physical albums sold will secure the top spot in February. They must have an overview about how many copies they shifted. And maybe they think that if it works very well he can have a no one based on downloads already next week.

Nice to see you here, Lucy. A very special place for interesting discussions about Rob and his projects, very honest and inspiring

this sounded very special, I like that he is now doing so much more than the 'obvious'

I love the album and reviews

what would it mean 'not taking too seriously', Tess. I mean I understand what it means, but not linked to the album

Merry Christmas

but what will he do from February to August? I mean I don't see a the strategy yet.

I would have loved him to write further with Stephen Duffy. What a great album this is.