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Robbie Williams is planning on engaging in a work stoppage, threatening to withhold his next album from his label, EMI, while having his manager call belt-tightening Terra Firma chair Guy Hands a "plantation owner." Williams' forthcoming Mark Ronson-produced album is slated for this fall, but that might not happen until 2009 or so because he's really not looking forward to watching the label attempt to market it. (Although really, could their marketing result in a failure bigger than the one Williams endured while trying to break the States?) More»
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Robbie Williams, a self-confessed attention seeker, has garnered a reputation for pushing the envelope in regards to male nudity. Though it is quite common for female celebrities to appear scantily clad in photographs (and in fact often expected of them), this is far less common for men. Williams' tendency to pose provocatively has gone from somewhat light-hearted "mooning" and "pants-down" photos early in his career to more sexually explicit content. In 2004 the German website set up by his record label to promote his music posted an allegedly nude photograph of Williams with his crotch area blurred out. They promised that if one million people clicked on the photo they would unblur the area and reveal the nudity. Once unblurred it was revealed that Williams was in fact holding some sort of phallus in front of his actual genitals so that they could not be seen; 24 hours later even this was covered by a miniature cut-out of his album cover.
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Robbie Williams ended collaboration with his long-time songwriting partner Guy Chambers afer his 2002 album Escapology. His current album Intensive Care is composed of songs co-written by Stephen Duffy who was once a member of Duran Duran. Many music writers speculated that the break with Chambers would spell the beginning of the end for Robbie Williams, but his hit singles have continued to flow.
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Robbie Williams had initially announced that the album would not be released in North America, but popular demand led to its release on iTunes in the US and the UK. The album was released domestically in Canada. Williams said of his continued low popularity in the US, "I think the way for me to win America's heart is to perform, and if I was really concerned about breaking big [in the US] then there'd be a tour." Robbie Williams later indicated that he would neither release his album in the States nor tour there, claiming he has everything he wants without doing this.
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Robbie Williams has only released three albums in the United States, The Ego Has Landed (1999), Sing When You're Winning (2000) and Escapology (2002) - the rest of his catalogue has been released through iTunes and other digital stores. Robbie has sold an estimated 1 million albums in the United States of America.
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Since then, Robbie Williams has sold more albums in the United Kingdom than any other British solo artist in history. His sales stand at over 50 million worldwide. He has ... sold an estimated 15 million singles.This brings his total to almost 70 million records.
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