Charts analysis: Robbie Williams' Britpop debuts at No.1 as career consumption tops 21m units

Bigger than The Beatles? Eclipsing the Fab Four to become the artist with most UK No.1 albums in chart history, Robbie Williams returns to the summit with retro-styled new release, Britpop.

Debuting atop the chart a year to the week after his Better Man soundtrack set reached the summit, Britpop was unleashed unexpectedly last Friday (January 16), three weeks before its originally scheduled date, and racks up first week consumption of 34,157 units (16,536 CDs, 2,510 vinyl albums, 13,791 ...

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