“Supreme” by Robbie Williams

"Supreme" was the third single Chrysalis pulled from Sing When You're Winning, Robbie Williams's third studio album, and it hit the shops on 11 December 2000. It's a magpie's nest of a pop record: the strings come from a piece François de Roubaix wrote for Dernier domicile connu, José Giovanni's film with Lino Ventura and Marlène Jobert, and the bridge slips in a bit of Gloria Gaynor's "I Will Survive". The writing credit stretches from Williams and Guy Chambers to de Roubaix, Dino Fekaris and Freddie Perren.

Chambers arranged it, played keyboards and produced it with Steve Power, who mixed. It reached number four in Britain and topped the charts in Hungary and Poland, and Williams later cut a French version and, for Swings Both Ways in 2013, a swing remake called "Swing Supreme".

Written with AI assistance from RockLists chart data, MusicBrainz and Wikipedia.