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Robbie Williams breaks the Beatles’ record for UK No 1 albums, with 16th chart-topper

New studio album Britpop goes straight to No 1 in opening week, after Williams moved its release date to avoid a chart battle with Taylor Swift

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Robbie Williams overtakes The Beatles with album record

Britpop has become his 16th number one album as a solo artist after previously being tied with The Beatles.

Evening Standard

Robbie Williams on course to surpass The Beatles with record-breaking 16th UK number one album

Robbie Williams looks set to make UK chart history as his new record Britpop is on track to become his 16th chart-topper - meaning he would surpass The Beatles as the artist with the most number one albums.

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Robbie Williams on track to break The Beatles’ record for number one albums

The 51-year-old’s latest record, Britpop, is his first release in seven years.

Evening Standard

Robbie Williams surprise releases BRITPOP album three weeks early

Robbie Williams has delighted fans by releasing his new album BRITPOP three weeks ahead of schedule.

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Robbie Williams review, Britpop: An unabashed joyride from one of our most charismatic pop stars

3/5 Former Take That singer is on top form for his first proper album in a decade, throwing in a Gary Barlow reunion just for the hell of it

The Independent UK

Robbie Williams: Britpop review – a wayward yet winning time-machine trip back to the 90s

Framed as the music Williams wanted to make post-Take That, Britpop surpasses pastiche and swerves unpredictably. Homoerotic paean to Morrissey, anyone?

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Robbie Williams' Britpop: A Morrissey-dissing, gleefully weird triumph

4/5 Robbie Williams attempts to record the record he should have made after Take That split up, which is so wrong an exercise that it feels right

Evening Standard

“Yeah I want that more than anything in my career right now, of course I do”: Robbie Williams is gunning to break the Beatles' record of 15 UK Number One albums

It’s “the most important thing to me in the world” he says

MusicRadar

Robbie Williams says he will ‘ride again’ with Take That and reveals new albums

Britpop, his first album since 2019, is due to be released next month.

Evening Standard

Mountains, love and lube: The 10 most anticipated albums of 2026

Euronews Culture looks ahead to 2026 and picks 10 albums we can't wait to hear in the first months of next year.

Euronews

"The drums were recorded on a massive concrete staircase in an old Victorian brewery": Out of step with Britpop, one of the Levellers' biggest hits was inspired by Led Zeppelin

During the post-grunge era, the Levellers were derided as obsolete crusties, but one of their biggest hits was influenced by classic 70s rock

Louder

Robbie Williams was 'despised' by 'pretentious' Britpop stars

Pop star Robbie Williams has revealed he was "despised" by "pretentious bullies" in the music industry after he left Take That and was pictured handing out with Oasis at Glastonbury Festival in 1995.

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A Traitors cloak, Britpop Trumps and a very arty swearbox: it’s the 2025 Culture Christmas gift guide!

Put some artful oomph into your festive season with our bumper guide, featuring everything from a satanic South Park shirt to Marina Abramović’s penis salt and pepper pots

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Brett Anderson is 'proud' that Suede blazed the Britpop trail

Suede frontman Brett Anderson takes pride in the fact that the band "opened a lot of doors" for other Britpop acts.

The Conversation

A Different Class of social commentary: Pulp’s era-defining album turns 30

In the summer of 1995, an exceptional heat wave swept the country. The Usual Suspects delighted cinema-goers, and the British press engineered the so-called “battle of Britpop”.

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“Somehow all of these songs mean more to people now than they did when they were first released": Britpop becomes the latest genre to get a classical makeover, courtesy of Blur's Alex James

Reef singer Gary Stringer, Saffron from Republica and good old Phil Daniels are also attached to the project

Evening Standard

Blur bassist Alex James announces classical tour to bring Britpop ‘back to life’

He has teamed up with the Royal Philharmonic Concert Orchestra and vocalists from the London Concert Orchestra for the Britpop Classical show.

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Damon Albarn hails Oasis for making Britpop 'feel like the biggest thing on Earth'

Damon Albarn says former foes Oasis are doing a "very good job" at keeping the spirit of Britpop alive.

Louder

"It certainly rubbed some people up the wrong way": The story of the sexually ambiguous anthem that got Placebo a tour with David Bowie

A three-minute rush of hedonism, Placebo’s alt-rock anthem raised two fingers to Britpop and got them on Top Of The Pops – so why do they feel so ambivalent about it?

Evening Standard

Taylor Swift breaks UK chart records with album The Life Of A Showgirl

Swift’s album debuts at number one, with her tracks in the top three of the singles chart.

Louder

“I left my car with all the instruments in but I’d left the handbrake off and it rolled onto the motorway”: the tearaway Britpop teenagers whose knack of getting into trouble had Steven Spielberg on the phone wanting to make a TV show with them

Police arrests, car crashes and a very warped drumkit – the E.T. director foresaw some TV gold and wanted in

Evening Standard

Robbie Williams Long 90s Tour at Dingwalls review: Britpop is a mixed bag

3/5 The new album may have some snoozefest lyrics but he’s still a turbo-charismatic entertainer

The Guardian - UK

Robbie Williams review – tiny Camden gig offers blinding star wattage – and a surprising new song about Morrissey

Previewing new album Britpop to an audience of 600, the star promises ‘no stadium bravado’ and delivers droll new songs alongside stripped-back oldies

Evening Standard

Victoria Siddall's guide to London: The Old Vic, karaoke and Toklas

The National Portrait Gallery director shares her insider guide to the capital, and stories of living in Camden through the Britpop era

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