Song · Robbie Williams
“Angels” by Robbie Williams
From the album Life Thru a Lens (1997)
“Angels” by Robbie Williams appears on 4 radio countdowns from 1 station between 2001 and 2005. It was first released in 1997 on the album Life Thru a Lens. Its best result is #4 on the Virgin Radio Top 500 Songs of All-Time (December 2001). In the combined RockLists rankings it is #2,629 alternative song of all time.
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"Angels" came out on Chrysalis on 1 December 1997, the fourth single from Life Thru a Lens, Robbie Williams' debut solo album. He wrote it with Guy Chambers, who arranged it and produced it with Steve Power, and it builds the way a great power ballad should: hushed and confessional at the start, then swelling into a big, gospel-lit chorus with Chris Sharrock's drums and a wall of guitars pushing it skyward.
Britain took it to heart. It reached number four on the UK singles chart, sold more than a million copies there, won the Ivor Novello Award for Best Song Musically and Lyrically in 1999, and at the 2005 Brit Awards it was voted the top song of the past 25 years. That same year, a public vote picked it as the song people in Britain would most like to hear at their own funeral.
Written with AI assistance from RockLists chart data, MusicBrainz and Wikipedia.
RockLists rankings
Alternative & Modern Rock
All Rock Formats
All-time and decade countdowns
| Year | # | Station | Countdown | of |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2001 | 4 | Virgin Radio | Virgin Radio Top 500 Songs of All-Time (December 2001) | 500 |
| 2004 | 5 | Virgin Radio | Virgin Radio Top 500 Songs of All-Time (December 2004) | 500 |
| 2005 | 5 | Virgin Radio | Virgin Radio Top 500 Songs of All-Time (December 2005) | 500 |
| 2005 | 9 | Virgin Radio | Virgin Radio Top 100 Brit Songs of All-Time (May 2005) | 100 |
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