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Its all over the web and the newspapers today that Robbie Williams has bottled out of a chart showdown with Justin Timberlake...

The prince of pop (oh dear) has delayed his new album release - called 1974 - so it won't go head-to-head with Justin's latest, FutureSex: Love Sounds. Both cds were due out on Sept 11th, but now Robbie has held his back until the beginning of October...

It's a surprise move by Robbie as rumour has it, it's his best and most experimental album to date. Its got to be better than Intensive Care, which I have to admit has slowly grown on me, but is still no classic...

1974 will be preceded by a single called Rudebox in September followed by Lovelight - a ballad that will come out just in time for the Christmas charts. He apparently has also recorded two rap-style tracks called The 80s and The 90s about his days in Take That... and I read here that there is a pet shop boys collab called She's Madonna and a cover of the Robert Friend track We Are The Pet Shop Boys. Plus i remember reading that the album will also contain a cover of Stephen Duffy's Kiss Me and Human League's Louise...

With Pet Shop Boys production and great sounding tracks (though the proof of the pudding, etc) i think its a shame that Robbie is backing off from a chart throwdown with Justin (who you know i love all of a sudden...)... September is going to be a GREAT month for new music :)