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    Robbie Williams

    Robbie Williams

    Awards & Honours

    78

    Awards Won

    4

    Honours

    7

    Rankings

    8

    Covers

    3

    Records

    Robbie Williams holds the record for the most Brit Awards won by any male artist, with 18. He is the only artist to win the Brit Award for Best British Male Artist four times in a row. His 2003 Knebworth concerts remain the largest UK music event by attendance at the time. In 2006, he set a Guinness World Record for selling 1.6 million tickets in a single day. He was inducted into the UK Music Hall of Fame in 2004 as the Greatest Artist of the 1990s, and in 2014 he received the Freedom of Stoke-on-Trent.

    Awards

    Honours & Distinctions

    UK Music Hall of Fame Inductee

    UK Music Hall of Fame·2004

    Voted the Greatest Artist of the 1990s.

    Freedom of Stoke-on-Trent

    Stoke-on-Trent City Council·2014

    Awarded the freedom of his hometown.

    Guinness World Record

    Guinness World Records·2006

    Most tickets sold in a single day by a solo artist (1.6 million).

    Guinness World Record

    Guinness World Records·2023

    Most Brit Awards won by a male artist (18).

    Rankings & Lists

    #7

    100 Greatest British Singers

    Rolling Stone·2023
    #1

    Top 10 UK Male Solo Artists of All Time

    Billboard·2020
    #15

    100 Most Influential People in Music

    NME·2002
    #23

    100 Best British Artists of All Time

    The Guardian·2012
    #1

    Top 100 UK Artists of the 1990s

    BBC Radio 2·2000
    #12

    100 Greatest Singers

    Q Magazine·2007
    #5

    Greatest UK Pop Stars

    MTV UK·2010

    Magazine Covers

    Rolling Stone (UK)

    December 1998

    Robbie Williams: The Bad Boy of British Pop

    Q Magazine

    November 1999

    Robbie: The King of Pop?

    GQ (UK)

    January 2000

    Man of the Year: Robbie Williams

    Vanity Fair (UK)

    September 2003

    Robbie: The $100 Million Man

    TIME (European edition)

    July 2004

    The British Invasion: Robbie Williams

    Hello!

    August 2010

    Robbie and Ayda: The Wedding

    OK!

    October 2012

    Robbie: My Baby Girl Teddy

    The Sunday Times Magazine

    December 2022

    Robbie Williams: 30 Years of Fame

    Records & Feats

    Most Brit Awards won by a male artist

    Awards·2023

    Williams has won 18 Brit Awards, more than any other male artist in history.

    Most tickets sold in a single day by a solo artist

    Career Milestone·2006

    Sold 1.6 million tickets in one day during his 2006 Close Encounters Tour.

    Largest UK music event by attendance at the time

    Historic First·2003

    His three concerts at Knebworth in 2003 drew over 375,000 people, the biggest UK music event to that point.