Swing When You're Winning

Occupation

Swing When You're Winning by Robbie Williams is an album that - unusual for a pop singer - includes swing music. It was released on 21 November 2001 and is the fourth solo album by Williams.

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Success

The end of 2001 released album was an international success with several top - 10 finishes and achieved, among other number one on the album charts in the UK, Australia, New Zealand, Ireland, Germany and Switzerland. In the UK it is one of the 49 best-selling albums ever, and held it to 57 weeks in the charts. Worldwide, more than 7 million records, of which 2 million sold in the year 2001.

Songs

Somethin 'Stupid, a duet with Nicole Kidman, was the first single release of the album. The cover of Frank and Nancy Sinatra Hits was in the UK with around 100,000 records sold in the first week of the fifth number-one hit from Williams. In addition, the song was also successful in Argentina, New Zealand and Lithuania and reached Top 10 rankings in many European countries. Alone in the UK over 200,000 sound recordings were sold.

Another single from this album was the double A - side Mr. Bojangles / I Will Talk and Hollywood Will Listen. However, it was released only in Central and Eastern Europe. Mack the Knife was released exclusively as a radio single in Mexico.

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