AP/MTI/Mate Nandorfi
17 December 2013
Surely Robbie Williams isn’t on his uppers? The performer’s earnings have slumped thanks to declining record sales, his manager told MPs. Speaking about the music industry’s future, Tim Clark said: “It is damned difficult. It is difficult enough for Robbie Williams, whose revenues from recorded music have plummeted from what they were five or six years ago.”
Williams has amassed a £100 million fortune but it is his ability to sell out stadiums that currently maintains his income. “I have to justify what I do to Robbie every day of my life,” says Clark. “ If I am not performing, I will get the boot.” The Londoner can only hope Williams’s Swings Both Ways Christmas album sells enough copies to save Clark’s job.
