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Robbie Williams
Solo artist Stoke-on-Trent United Kingdom
Robbie Williams is an artist from Stoke-on-Trent. Robbie Williams has 29 chart appearances on 10 radio countdowns from 2 stations on RockLists, spanning 1997–2006. The most successful song on radio countdowns is “Let Me Entertain You”, which appears on 6 lists with a best position of #4. The station that charted Robbie Williams most often is Virgin Radio (United Kingdom), with 28 appearances. The artist’s biggest year on year-end countdowns was 1998.
Robbie Williams got famous in Take That, the pop group he sang with from 1990 to 1995, and in 1996 the Stoke-on-Trent lad struck out on his own. Life Thru a Lens, his 1997 debut, traded boy-band gloss for a brash, Britpop-flavored swagger: "Old Before I Die" and "Let Me Entertain You" strut and preen like glam rock with a wink, and "Angels", a big, weepy ballad, became the best-selling single of his career.
I've Been Expecting You, in 1998, raised the stakes, with the lush, sweeping "Millennium" and the tender "She's the One" giving him his first two UK number ones, while "Strong" and "No Regrets" showed a rougher, more rueful side. Sing When You're Winning followed in 2000 with the disco-strutting "Rock DJ".
What came after is the stuff of pop lore: a record 18 Brit Awards, 3 nights at Knebworth in 2003 for more than 375,000 people, a return to Take That in 2010 for Progress, and a biopic, Better Man, in 2024.
Written with AI assistance from RockLists chart data, MusicBrainz and Wikipedia.
Songs by Robbie Williams on radio countdowns
| # | Song | Strength | Lists | Best | #1s | Peak year |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Let Me Entertain You | 6 | #4 | – | 1998 | |
| 2 | Angels | 4 | #4 | – | – | |
| 3 | Rock DJ | 4 | #126 | – | – | |
| 4 | She's the One | 2 | #34 | – | – | |
| 5 | Millennium | 2 | #25 | – | – | |
| 6 | Angles | 1 | #21 | – | – | |
| 7 | Eternity | 1 | #171 | – | – | |
| 8 | Strong | 2 | #193 | – | – | |
| 9 | No Regrets | 1 | #415 | – | – | |
| 10 | Old Before I Die | 2 | #10 | – | 1997 | |
| 11 | Old Before I Do | 1 | #87 | – | – | |
| 12 | Supreme | 1 | #466 | – | – |
Albums with charting songs
Where each song was first released, from MusicBrainz.
Year-end chart timeline
Combined year-end countdown points per year. Taller bars mean more songs placing higher across more stations.
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