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Robbie Williams has confirmed he makes music for the plenty as he achieves the fifteenth No 1 album of his profession, matching a report set by The Beatles.
The British pop star, 50, topped the charts within the UK this week with the unique soundtrack to his critically acclaimed biopic, Higher Man, wherein he’s portrayed as an anthropomorphic chimpanzee (dropped at life by means of CGI by actor Jonno Davies).
Higher Man depicts how Williams – who shot to fame as an adolescent when he joined the boyband Take That – went by means of a sequence of non-public struggles together with melancholy and substance abuse, whereas reaching enormous success as a solo artist with hits resembling “She’s the One” and “Let Me Entertain You”.
The Official Charts Firm studies that the Higher Man soundtrack out-sold the remainder of the High 5 mixed because it grew to become the Stoke-born singer’s newest chart-topper, following information together with 1997’s Life Through a Lens, 2013’s Swings Each Methods, and 2016’s The Heavy Leisure Present.
Featured on the album are up to date variations of traditional tracks, from “Rock DJ” and “Angels” to Take That’s “Relight My Hearth”, in addition to a brand new unique track, “Forbidden Street”.
“Thanks to everybody who has supported the album and the film,” Williams instructed the Official Charts Firm.
“What an enormous honour it’s to get my fifteenth UK No 1 album. A particular thanks to all my followers, whose assist I by no means take with no consideration.
“I’m so pleased with the movie Higher Man, so to have the soundtrack attain No 1 makes it much more particular.”
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He celebrated the event by sharing a photograph together with his No 1 trophy whereas carrying a T-shirt that reads “John & Paul & Ringo & George & Robbie”, in reference to his accomplishment equalling The Beatles.
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The achievement can be welcome information to Williams as Higher Man continues to bomb on the field workplace in each the UK and the US, regardless of glowing opinions from critics.
Made on a finances of round $115m and launched within the UK over the Christmas holidays, it had earnt simply $4.7m (£3.7m) by 15 January.
Within the US, it fared even worse, taking simply $1m in its opening weekend.
David A Gross, of the film consulting agency Franchise Leisure Analysis, instructed Selection that the movie was doubtless doomed by its excessive manufacturing prices.
“Robbie Williams performed by a digitally animated chimpanzee [is] an outlandish alternative,” stated Gross.
“For anybody complaining that the trade performs it too secure, that is your film. The chance-taking is superb, however $110m just isn’t practical for the style and for this musical artist. $25m to $30m would have made extra sense.”
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Different critics have theorised that the field workplace flop is because of the truth that Williams has made much less of a cultural impression within the US as he has within the UK, having didn’t crack the Billboard High 50 as a solo artist.
The pop singer addressed his failed makes an attempt to “break America” in his 2023 Netflix docuseries Robbie Williams, finally concluding that his anonymity within the States turned out to be a blessing when he moved to Los Angeles in 2001.
In a four-star evaluate for The Impartial, Clarisse Loughrey wrote of Higher Man: “If Superman made us imagine a person can fly, then Higher Man makes us imagine a CGI chimp can convincingly convey the agony and ecstasy of pop star Robbie Williams.
“Initially, it reads as little greater than a self-deprecating joke – when The Biggest Showman director Michael Gracey first spoke to Williams about placing his life up on display screen, the latter remarked that he’d all the time seen himself as a sort of ‘performing monkey’. But it surely works. Not regardless of the gimmick, however due to it.”
