Robbie Williams albums will be humanitarian aid for China

Record label EMI announced that over one million unsold copies of Robbie Williams’s last record Rudebox will be sent to China. They will be crushed, and the recycled end product will then be used in road surfacing and street lighting.

This does not mean that EMI has a lot of spare money. Company owner Guy Hands said: «Roughly 85 per cent of what EMI does get to release never makes a profit, partly due to ill-made bets on the number of CDs the market requires for particular acts».