Robbie Williams (born Robert Peter Williams on 13 February 1974 in Stoke-on-Trent) is a Grammy Award-nominated and multi BRIT Award-winning British singer-songwriter. His career started as a dancer and singer of the pop band Take That in 1990, which he left in 1995 to launch his solo career. Robbie Williams as a solo artist has sold more albums in the United Kingdom than any other British solo artist in history and has won more BRIT Awards than any other artist to date. His album sales stands at over 55 million worldwide. Williams entered in The Guinness Book of World Records when he announced his World Tour for 2006, selling 1.6 million tickets in one single day. He has been the recipient of many awards, including ten BRIT and six ECHO awards. In 2004, he was inducted into the UK Music Hall of Fame, after being voted as the Greatest artist of the 1990s. He appears in the list of the all-time Top 100 biggest selling albums in the United Kingdom six times. It is also estimated he is currently the best selling non-Latino artist in Latin America at the moment with over 3 million sold. After leaving Take That, Williams launched his solo career starting things off in 1996 by covering George Michael's "Freedom", the single reached number-two in the UK Singles Chart, twenty-six places higher than George Michael's original.
Discography
Studio albums
* 1997: Life Thru a Lens
* 1998: I've Been Expecting You
* 2000: Sing When You're Winning
* 2001: Swing When You're Winning
* 2002: Escapology
* 2005: Intensive Care
* 2006: Rudebox
Compilation albums
* 1999: The Ego Has Landed
* 2004: Greatest Hits
Live albums
* 2003: Live At Knebworth
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