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}} ''Take the Crown'' is the ninth studio album released by British singer-songwriter Robbie Williams. The album was released in the United Kingdom on 5 November 2012, via Island Records. ''Take the Crown'' is preceded by the lead single, "Candy", a track Williams co-wrote with Gary Barlow which became his seventh solo number one single in the UK and 14th career UK number one. The album also featured the original demo version of Take That's "Eight Letters", which is entirely performed by Williams. It is his first solo album in three years after his return to Take That in 2010. According to the International Federation of the Phonographic Industry (IFPI), ''Take the Crown'' was the 36th global best-selling album of 2012 with sales of 1.2 million copies. To promote the album, Williams started the Take the Crown Stadium Tour, which lasted from June to August 2013. ==Background== On 9 November 2009, Williams released his eighth solo studio album entitled ''Reality Killed the Video Star''.〔(【引用サイトリンク】title=Music – Reality Killed the Video Star by Robbie Williams )〕 The album incorporated elements of pop rock, dance-rock, alternative rock and adult contemporary music.〔(【引用サイトリンク】title=Reality Killed the Video Star )〕 ''Reality Killed the Video Star'' was viewed by critics and fans as being Williams' "comeback album" after the relative failure of his 2006 release, ''Rudebox''.〔(【引用サイトリンク】title=Madonna, Robbie Williams Rule in Europe )〕 The album produced four singles, including the worldwide hit "Bodies". Speaking of the album, Williams has claimed: "After the Take That reunion – a busman's holiday, a break from my career which re-energised me in many, many ways – I wanted to come back with a massive solo album. My main priority was to write what I consider, and hopefully what the world would consider, to be hits. I'm very excited".〔(【引用サイトリンク】title=Take The Crown: New Album Out 5th November )〕 Robbie met Melbourne musicians Flynn Francis and Tim Metcalfe through the brother of his wife Ayda Field.The like-minded trio immediately hit a rich vein of creative form, penning Take The Crown in just over a week. He said: "My brother-in-law, who’s in a rap combo called The Connects... his music got 40 per cent better overnight. I said, ‘What’s going on?’ He said, ‘Well, we met these Australian guys in a bar and they produce and write songs. And I said, ‘Well, get them up to the house.’ Within eight days we’d written the album. They breathed youth into the situation and naivety and hope. I found it to be a very fortuitous blend straight away, more so than anything I’ve ever done in the past." The album was made available to pre-order from midnight on 3 September 2012. Music industry magazine ''Music Week'' were given the chance to listen to the record in advance, and gave the following review: "Take The Crown is the big, brash, confident Robbie Williams pop record that his fans have been longing for but maybe didn't dare expect. If it had a sub-title it would be 'In Case You'd Forgotten'. Not wishing to denigrate the art of the record executive, but Island may as well have chosen the lead single by chucking a dart at the inlay sleeve. They couldn't have missed. Because there are no misses. Just hits – huge pop hits."〔 The album's lead single, the Williams/Gary Barlow-penned "Candy", was released on 29 October 2012. The track was originally rumoured to be titled "Vertigo". Williams said of the track: "It's a summer song, very much in a similar vein to 'Rock DJ', about a girl who thinks she's great. And she might be, but she's a bit nefarious with her ways. Some songs take an age to write and some songs just fall out of your mouth completely formed, and you don't have to think about it. I don't know why that fell out of my mouth and out of my brain at that particular time – it just did."〔 Williams has stated that he did not tour his last album as he wasn't "into it that much". Williams said "I want to impress on people that I'm fully in with this one. I want to dominate the charts. I want to take on the world. I want to be a top pop star. I'm re-energised and it's called ''Take the Crown'' for that reason." 抄文引用元・出典: フリー百科事典『 ウィキペディア（Wikipedia）』 ■ウィキペディアで「Take the Crown (album)」の詳細全文を読む スポンサード リンク
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