- Music
- 09 May 16
He's won an record winning 17Brit Awards and on top of that Williams has sold 70 million albums worldwide. So it's unsurprising that Sony Music UK have jumped at the chance to sign Robbie Williams.
The best-selling British artist of all time, 11 UK No.1 albums and selling 1.6 millions tickets in one day are only a handful of the accolades Williams is the beholder of.
Today Williams announced the news that he has been signed to Sony Music UK and that an album will be on its way in the coming year.
Managed to keep this secret for a whole week: I'm working on my new album with @SonyMusicUK x https://t.co/PSJoSN92cE #excited #newalbum
— Robbie Williams (@robbiewilliams) May 8, 2016
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This is a first in Williams career and will see him leaving his home of Universal Music. The lucrative deal with Sony will reunite Williams with Guy Chambers who collaborated on some of Williams biggest hits including 'Angels', 'Millennium' and 'Let Me Entertain You'.
Sony will oversee Williams eleventh studio recording which will be released through their subsidiary Columbia Records. Williams is thrilled with the new partnership; "The team at Sony are professional, incredibly hungry, and have a great energy. They're inspired, I'm inspired. I'm more ready than I ever have been and I'm totally convinced I'm in the right place. I look forward to working on this album, which is an album I'm immensely proud of, in this exciting new partnership with Sony Music."
No set date has been given to the album's release but it is expected to hit shelves in the forthcoming year. Watch this space.