Swing When You're Winning
| Swing When You're Winning | ||||
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| Robbie Williams studio album | ||||
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Publication |
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| Label (s) | Chrysalis ( EMI ) | |||
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Title (number) |
16+ |
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running time |
73.59 |
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| occupation | Singing : Robbie Williams | |||
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Guy Chambers , Steve Power |
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Swing When You're Winning is a cover album in the swing genre by Robbie Williams . It was released in November 2001 and is Williams' fourth solo album.
Track list
| Track | title | Authors | Length (in minutes) |
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| 01 | I Will Talk and Hollywood Will Listen | Guy Chambers , Robbie Williams | 3:17 |
| 02 | Mack the Knife | Marc Blitzstein , Bertolt Brecht , Kurt Weill | 3:18 |
| 03 | Somethin 'Stupid (with Nicole Kidman ) | Carson Parks | 2:50 |
| 04 | Do nothin 'till you hear from me | Duke Ellington , Bob Russell | 2:58 |
| 05 | It Was a Very Good Year (with Frank Sinatra ) | Ervin Drake | 4:28 |
| 06 | Straighten Up and Fly Right | Nat King Cole , Irving Mills | 2:36 |
| 07 | Well, Did You Evah! (with Jon Lovitz ) | Cole Porter | 3:50 |
| 08 | Mr. Bojangles | Jerry Jeff Walker | 3:17 |
| 09 | One for my baby | Harold Arlen , Johnny Mercer | 4:17 |
| 10 | Things (with Jane Horrocks ) | Bobby in it | 3:22 |
| 11 | Ain't that a kick in the head? | Sammy Cahn , Jimmy Van Heusen | 2:27 |
| 12 | They Can't Take That Away from Me (with Rupert Everett ) | George Gershwin , Ira Gershwin | 3:07 |
| 13 | Have You Met Miss Jones? | Richard Rodgers , Lorenz Hart | 2:34 |
| 14th | Me and My Shadow (with Jonathan Wilkes ) | Dave Dreyer , Al Jolson , Billy Rose | 3:16 |
| 15th | Beyond the Sea | Jack Lawrence , Charles Trenet | 4:30 |
| 16 | Hidden track with outtakes (follows "Beyond the Sea" at 25:24) | - | 2:50 |
success
The album was internationally successful with several top 10 placements and reached number one in the album charts in Great Britain, Australia, New Zealand, Ireland, Germany and Switzerland. It is one of the 49 best-selling albums in the UK and stayed in the charts for 57 weeks. Over 7 million records were sold worldwide, including 2 million in 2001.
Songs
Somethin 'Stupid , a duet with Nicole Kidman , was the album's first single release. The cover version of the Frank and Nancy Sinatra hit became Williams' fifth number one hit in the UK, with approximately 100,000 records sold in its first week, as well as a number one Christmas hit . The song was also successful in Argentina, New Zealand and Lithuania and reached top 10 placements in many European countries. Over 200,000 records have been sold in Great Britain alone.
Another release from this album was the double A-side Mr. Bojangles / I Will Talk and Hollywood Will Listen . However, it was only published in Central and Eastern Europe. Mack the Knife was released solely as a radio single in Mexico. Robbie Williams recorded a version of It Was a Very Good Year for this album in which he sings a duet with the original voice of Frank Sinatra. Sinatra had died three years earlier.
Sales figures and awards
| Country / Region | Award | Sales |
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| Awards for music sales (country / region, Award, Sales) |
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 Argentina (CAPIF)
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 platinum
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40,000 |
 Australia (ARIA)
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4 × platinum
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280,000 |
 Belgium (BEA)
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 gold
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(25,000) |
 Denmark (IFPI)
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platinum
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(50,000) |
 Germany (BVMI)
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5 × platinum
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(1,500,000) |
 Europe (IFPI)
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4 × platinum
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6,000,000 |
 France (SNEP)
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gold
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(100,000) |
 Greece (IFPI)
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gold
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(15,000) |
 Ireland (IRMA)
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11 × platinum
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(330,000) |
 Canada (MC)
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gold
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50,000 |
 New Zealand (RMNZ)
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5 × platinum
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75,000 |
 Netherlands (NVPI)
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2 × platinum
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(160,000) |
 Austria (IFPI)
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4 × platinum
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(200,000) |
 Poland (ZPAV)
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gold
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(50,000) |
 Sweden (IFPI)
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platinum
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(60,000) |
 Switzerland (IFPI)
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3 × platinum
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(120,000) |
 Spain (Promusicae)
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platinum
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(100,000) |
 Hungary (MAHASZ)
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gold
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(10,000) |
 United Kingdom (BPI)
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8 × platinum
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(2,400,000) |
| All in all |
6 × gold 52 × platinum |
6,775,000 |
Main article: Robbie Williams / Music Sales Awards