Swings Both Ways
by Robbie Williams
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Robbie Williams bestography
Swings Both Ways is ranked 12th best out of 20 albums by Robbie Williams on BestEverAlbums.com.
The best album by Robbie Williams is I've Been Expecting You which is ranked number 4409 in the list of all-time albums with a total rank score of 328.
(N.B. Bestographies include all albums by an artist (and their variations), but do not include albums ranked outside the top 100,000).
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Swings Both Ways track list
The tracks on this album have an average rating of 71 out of 100 (all tracks have been rated).
Swings Both Ways rankings
Calculated from aggregate positions across 60,000 charts (2 million album rankings). Click to see how the rankings are calculated (Last updated: 6 hours ago)
| Year | Source | Chart | Rank | Rank Score |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2026 | fabm0 | Platinum year 2013 | 21/43 | - |
| 2026 | fabm0 | List 2013 | 24/78 | - |
| 2024 | SD100852 | Top 15 Music Albums of 2013 | 11/15 | 2 |
| 2023 | SD100852 | Top 90 Music Albums of the 2010s | 62/90 | 6 |
| 2021 |  CharlieBarley | Top 63 Music Albums of 2013 | 38/63 | 2 |
| 2020 | Pretender | 2003. Best Songs, sort of ranked. | 17/41 | - |
| 2013 | laut | The 50 Best Albums of 2013 | 43/50 | 1 |
| Total Charts: The total number of charts that this album has appeared in. | 7 | |||
| Total Rank Score: The total rank score. | 11 | |||
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Swings Both Ways ratings
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| Rating | Date updated | Member | Album ratings | Avg. album rating |
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| ! | 08/26/2025 06:26 |  DommeDamian | 7,860 | 48/100 |
| ! | 07/28/2025 11:28 | fabm0 | 7,009 | 58/100 |
| ! | 01/24/2023 13:59 |  AlexSVK | 1,090 | 62/100 |
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This album has a Bayesian average rating of 63.6/100, a mean average of 55.0/100, and a trimmed mean (excluding outliers) of 55.0/100. The standard deviation for this album is 25.6.
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Robbie's second attempt at a swing/vocal jazz style album, some nice moments albeit it is pretty cheesy at times (especially tracks such as 'No One Likes a Fat Pop Star')
An album of swing music, including some covers of some classics. Take it or leave it really. It's a perfectly nice album but I prefer his pop albums.
Really didn't like this, probably requires a certain taste.
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