With Robbie Williams back in the line up of the mega boy band, their new album Progress, according to the Official Chart Company, is set to be “The Fastest Selling  Album of the Century”. This comment comes after the band achieved the fastest selling ticket sales for their come back tour as a five piece.

On its first day of release the band saw 235,000 records fly off the shelf, and by releasing the album in the earliest part of the week, it is possible that Progress will outsell the current record holder Oasis, whose album Be Here Now, sold 626,000 copies in its first week.

Curiously, Robbie Williams’s contribution to Take That was quite limited and yet is the lure of so many people wanting to buy the latest album and see the band on tour. The songs of Take That were then, and are now, mostly sung by Gary Barlow the band’s front man. How much of a contribution Williams will make to the group is unclear.

What is also unclear is why Robbie Williams and Take That have rejoined. Neither seems to be suffering a loss in popularity, and neither seems to need the other one.

Nonetheless, the band’s phenomenal success continues. Take That, with all five members performed to the second biggest X-Factor television audience the show has ever had, and a documentary about the band was watched by 5 million viewers. 

Progress, is out release right now.