PIPPED AT THE POST

Following his humiliating defeat to JLS in this week’s UK album chart battle, Robbie Williams maintains that chart positions aren’t important and all that matters is what his fans think.

We wholeheartedly believe him.

There’s no way he was desperate to be number 1. Just like he didn’t have the album reduced to half price in some stores, wasn’t offering free delivery through certain internet retailers and didn’t have his record company making frantic calls to supermarkets all week begging for more prominent shelf space.

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JLS TAKE THE LEAD!

The suits at EMI records must be getting nervous as it was revealed today that X Factor wannabes JLS have overtaken Robbie in the battle for this week’s number 1 album. Robbie has clearly fallen a long way from his peak, when he would easily have outsold newcomers like JLS by at least 3 to 1.

Our sources tell us that there’s only about 2,000 albums difference (less than 3% of the total) and so the race is far from over – watch this space for continued updates.

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