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Robbie Williams admitted that he delayed the release of his new album Britpop to avoid competition with Taylor Swift’s The Life of a Showgirl as he chases a monumental U.K. music charts record. Britpop was originally slated to arrive today, Oct. 10, but in September (about one month after Swift …

An Australian politician has called for Snoop Dogg to be removed from the upcoming AFL final, set for Sept. 27 at the Melbourne Cricket Ground. Sarah Hanson-Young addressed the Australian Senate this week asking for the rapper to be taken off the bill for the match’s pre-game entertainment. The Adelaide …

Robbie Williams has returned with a rousing new single, “Spies.” The track comes ahead of the British musician’s forthcoming LP, Britpop, out Oct. 10. “Spies” was written by Williams with his long-time collaborators Karl Brazil and Owen Parker.The song sees Williams reflecting on times past as he sings, “We used …

Robbie Williams has brushed off the Oscars’ decision to boot his Better Man track “Forbidden Road” from the shortlist for Best Original Song. “Forbidden Road,” which Williams penned for his new primate-infused biopic, was disqualified from Oscar contention late last month after the Music Branch of the Academy of Motion …

Robbie Williams needs no introduction. Unless you live in America, in which case, let’s bring everyone up to speed: Born in 1974, Stoke-on-Trent’s favorite son was initially the designated bad boy in Take That, Britain’s late ’80s answer to New Kids on the Block. He lived up to his reputation …

Robbie Williams’ “Forbidden Road,” which was penned for his upcoming primate-infused biopic Better Man, has been knocked off the Oscars shortlist for Best Original Song. The song no longer appears on the official Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences webpage for this year’s Oscar shortlists, and members of the …

The first trailer for the Robbie Williams film Better Man has arrived and opens with a message from the pop legend: “This is my story. But I’m not gonna tell it in an ordinary way because I don’t see myself how others see me.” And Williams wasn’t lying about the …

Robbie Williams paid tribute to One Direction’s Liam Payne, sharing a note that both honored the late singer and tried to, as he wrote, “make sense” of the tragedy. On Instagram, Williams said that when he first heard the news that Payne had died after falling from his third-story hotel …

Robbie Williams is set to star in a biopic about his own life, with an unusual twist: Instead of appearing as himself on-screen, he will instead lend his singing voice to a CGI monkey. The teaser trailer for Better Man arrived Tuesday, with the film billing itself as the “true …

Netflix has shared the new trailer for its four-part docuseries focused on British hitmaker and Take That singer Robbie Williams. Robbie Williams, hitting the streaming service on November 8, features “30 years of never-before-seen archive footage” to chart the singer’s career, from his start as a 16-year-old in the British …