Robbie Williams equals The Beatles’ record for most UK number one albums

Pop prima Robbie Williams has equalled The Beatles’ grounds for astir fig 1 albums successful the UK chart, the Official Charts Company has said.

Williams’ latest offering, Better Man – a soundtrack to his biopic of the aforesaid name, has go his 15th grounds to apical the authoritative albums chart.

He has present matched 1 of the astir influential bands of each time, who secured their 15th fig 1 successful 2000 with top hits medium 1, much than 37 years aft their debut workplace medium Please Please Me topped the charts.

In celebration, Williams, 50, shared a photograph to societal media of him wearing a T-shirt featuring the names of the foursome alongside his own.

He said: “Thank you to everyone who has supported the medium and the movie.

“What a immense honour it is to get my 15th UK Number 1 album.

“A peculiar convey you to each my fans, whose enactment I ne'er instrumentality for granted.

“I’m truthful arrogant of the movie Better Man, truthful to person the soundtrack medium scope fig 1 makes it adjacent much special.”

His different chart-toppers see Life Thru A Lens (1997), I’ve Been Expecting You (1998), Sing When You’re Winning (2000), Swing When You’re Winning (2001), Escapology (2002), Greatest Hits (2004), Intensive Care (2005) and Rudebox (2006).

There is besides In And Out Of Consciousness: Greatest Hits 1990-2010 (2010), Take The Crown (2012), Swings Both Ways (2013), The Heavy Entertainment Show (2016), The Christmas Present (2019) and XXV (2022).

Before embarking connected a solo career, Williams was a subordinate of fashionable boyband Take That, who person had occurrence with songs including Shine, Relight My Fire, and Pray.

In the movie Better Man, directed by Michael Gracey – who besides helmed philharmonic The Greatest Showman, the prima is played by a CGI chimpanzee, a remark connected however helium feels similar a “performing monkey”.

The film, which has received a champion ocular effects Oscars nomination, follows Williams’ childhood, clip successful Take That and his solo career, portion exploring the issues fame tin bring.

The soundtrack for the movie includes his hits Rock DJ, Angels, Let Me Entertain You and Better Man – arsenic good arsenic the Take That way Relight My Fire.

In 2023, documentary Robbie Williams was released to Netflix, which explored akin themes.

Williams is acceptable to execute successful cities crossed the UK and Europe this summer, with his 2025 circuit opening successful Edinburgh connected May 31.

Short N’ Sweet by US popstar Sabrina Carpenter is successful astatine fig 2 successful the albums illustration this week.

The medium – containing chart-topping singles Espresso, Please Please Please, and Taste – has been successful the UK chart’s apical 10 for much than 20 weeks pursuing its merchandise successful August 2024.

The remainder of the apical 5 is comprised of erstwhile chart-topper, The Secret Of Us, by singer-songwriter Gracie Abrams, SOS by R&B vocalist SZA, and The Highlights by Canadian creator The Weeknd, respectively.

Over successful the singles chart, Messy by British breakout prima Lola Young has taken the apical spot, displacing Abrams’ That’s So True, which is present successful astatine fig three.

Young, 24, told the Official Charts Company: “It’s amazing, this feels similar the close time.

“Thank you, I emotion you each truthful much. Thank you for being determination for me, supporting me.

“If you’ve been determination from the beginning, oregon if you’ve conscionable travel along, bask this travel and I’ll support making bangers for you lot.”

She added: “This wasn’t expected, but it’s decidedly a opus I truly believed in. It’s a opus that I wrote connected my own, and it feels truly special.

“We each benignant of knew it was special, but we didn’t deliberation it’d beryllium this big.”

Apt by Blackpink’s Rose and US prima Bruno Mars is successful astatine fig two.