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Most Monumental Album Flops: No. 9
- Posted on May 24th 2007 5:00PM by Spinner
'The Ego Has Landed'
Robbie Williams, 1999
Rise: The former Take That popster is the U.K.'s all-time top-selling solo artist and has sold more than 53 million albums worldwide.
Fall: Despite a huge push from Capitol Records to break into the American market, 'The Ego' never got higher than No. 63 on the U.S. pop charts. Take that!
Stats: 'I've Been Expecting You' (1998), 5 million (worldwide); 'Ego,' 560,000 (U.S.)
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Faith
Honestly, I really liked "The Ego Has Landed." I bought it for "Millennium," of course, but I enjoyed almost every other track on the album as well, especially the powerful ballad "Angels," which was dismally covered by Jessica Simpson a few years later. "Ego" remains one of my favorite CD's to listen to.
August 13 2007 at 10:35 PM Report abuse Permalink rate up rate down Reply
Rommel
Does any one remember T REX , Mark Bolan he was also a Brit , and was top of the pops all over the world , but never really could bust the states , they wanted to DISCO instead , of learning how to Boogie / Bang A Gong !!
August 13 2007 at 10:12 PM Report abuse Permalink rate up rate down Reply
James
I'm surprised Robbie Williams didn't do even moderately well in the states. His song "Rock DJ" is a good tune.
Is it me or does Robbie Williams' photo on the album cover look like that dude from the Bazooka Joe comics? LOL!
Drew
Actually, Capitol took tracks from two of Robbie's albums that sold well world wide, so it was more of a compilation of "select" tracks from "Life Thru A Lens" and "I've Been Expecting You" which are only avaiable as imports in the US. Though "Ego" isn't bad, the two CDs that those songs came from were better. But then Capitol did album butchering jobs before to a little band called, oh what was their name? Oh, I got it.....THE BEATLES!
June 12 2007 at 9:00 PM Report abuse Permalink rate up rate down Reply
Nunyer
What you hoochies at AOL need to know is that Robbie Williams is a very talented singer.
The reason why the album sold moderately in the United States is because of the fact that many Americans have a very serious disorder-TTSMD, which stands for Tasteless, Talentless and Stupid Music Disorder. In other words, they would rather listen to trash such as Justin Timberlake and Fergie, than listen to quality music by quality artists such as Amy Winehouse and of course, Robbie Williams.
Nunyer
The reason why Robbie William's album sold moderately is because of the fact that Americans don't warm up to British music like they did back in the 1960's when the Beatles. True the album peaked at #63, but with sales at 560,000 copies that means the album should have at least went Gold. And going Gold is not considered a flop by any means.
June 01 2007 at 9:53 AM Report abuse Permalink rate up rate down Reply
jeff Holmes
This album rocks. So we (the US) don't get it. That's not so bad for a country that digs Daughtry....oh yeah and Kettle Korn.
May 29 2007 at 11:09 PM Report abuse Permalink rate up rate down Reply
daniel
I bought this album for $3 at the goodwill. Pretty good stuff.
May 26 2007 at 8:07 PM Report abuse Permalink rate up rate down Reply
Jim
I have no idea who the hell he is.....
May 26 2007 at 7:17 PM Report abuse Permalink rate up rate down Reply
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