{"id":433537,"date":"2026-01-24T02:46:09","date_gmt":"2026-01-24T02:46:09","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/433537\/"},"modified":"2026-01-24T02:46:09","modified_gmt":"2026-01-24T02:46:09","slug":"robbie-williams-breaks-beatles-record-for-most-uk-no-1-albums","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/433537\/","title":{"rendered":"Robbie Williams Breaks Beatles Record for Most UK No. 1 Albums"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"https:\/\/consequence.net\/artist\/robbie-williams\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener nofollow\">Robbie Williams<\/a>\u2019 decision to delay his latest album, <a href=\"https:\/\/amzn.to\/3LQMkZc\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow noopener noreferrer\">Britpop<\/a>, to <a href=\"https:\/\/consequence.net\/2025\/10\/robbie-williams-delayed-britpop-because-of-taylor-swift\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener nofollow\">avoid direct competition<\/a> with Taylor Swift has paid off, as the pop veteran now holds more No. 1 albums in the UK than The Beatles.<\/p>\n<p>The former Take That member has now landed a whopping 16 albums atop the UK Official Albums Chart, setting a new record. He had been tied with the Fab Four since January 2025, when <a href=\"https:\/\/amzn.to\/49RnksB\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow noopener noreferrer\">the soundtrack<\/a> for his unique biopic, <a href=\"https:\/\/consequence.net\/2024\/12\/better-man-review-robbie-williams-biopic\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener nofollow\">Better Man<\/a>, hit No. 1.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><a href=\"https:\/\/amzn.to\/3LQMkZc\" class=\"button button-ticket\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\">Buy Britpop on CD\/Vinyl<\/a><\/p>\n<p>In addition to the\u00a0Better Man soundtrack, 12 of Williams\u2019 solo albums, two greatest hits collections, and his 2022 compilation\u00a0XXV\u00a0have topped the Official Albums Chart.<\/p>\n<p>Related Video<\/p>\n<p>\u201cBritpop is the record I\u2019ve always wanted to make, and seeing it become my 16th Number 1 album means everything to me,\u201d Williams said in a press statement. \u201cThank you to all the fans who have been with me every step of the way. You\u2019ve made my dreams come true.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>The Beatles had owned the record since releasing\u00a0Sgt. Pepper\u2019s Lonely Hearts Club Band in 1967. Their most recent No. 1 was their 2000 compilation\u00a01, featuring all of their chart-toppers in the UK and US.<\/p>\n<p>Williams was fully transparent about going after the record when he announced the delay in October 2025. \u201cWe\u2019re all pretending [the scheduling change] is not about Taylor Swift, but it fucking is,\u201d he admitted to the crowd at a London show. \u201cYou can\u2019t compete with that.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>\u201cI was worried about making you [fans] all wait for the record,\u201d he continued. \u201cBut then I was like, \u2018Fuck it\u2019 \u2026 How many times in your life do you get to have the most No. 1 albums the U.K. has fucking ever had?\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Read our own Liz Shannon Miller\u2019s <a href=\"https:\/\/consequence.net\/2024\/12\/better-man-review-robbie-williams-biopic\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener nofollow\">review of Better Man<\/a> and see where it landed on our list of the <a href=\"https:\/\/consequence.net\/list\/best-music-biopics-movies\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener nofollow\">Best Music Biopics of All Time<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>Williams is currently gearing up for a brief UK tour performing Life Thru a Lens and\u00a0Britpop\u00a0in full, followed by a summer European run. Get tickets <a href=\"https:\/\/viagogo.prf.hn\/click\/camref:1101lumwA\/pubref:robbie-williams*beatles-no-1-albums\/destination:https%3A%2F%2Fwww.viagogo.com%2FConcert-Tickets%2FRock-and-Pop%2FRobbie-Williams-Tickets\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener nofollow\">here<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Robbie Williams\u2019 decision to delay his latest album, Britpop, to avoid direct competition with Taylor Swift has paid&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":433538,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[28],"tags":[64,63,134,136],"class_list":{"0":"post-433537","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-music","8":"tag-au","9":"tag-australia","10":"tag-entertainment","11":"tag-music"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/433537","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=433537"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/433537\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/433538"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=433537"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=433537"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=433537"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}