Day 216 - Danes love Robbie Williams

Robbie Williams - formerly of the UK boy band Take That -  is in Denmark this week. I vaguely remember him in the States with the single Millenium.

It never really worked out for Robbie in the US. Maybe Americans just didn't have any room for an arrogant Brit pop star they had never heard of. Plus we already had plenty of American boy bands to love. He is, however, still a huge pop star in the UK / Europe. My coworker compared his popularity here to that of Justin Timberlake.

Anyway, he played Parken last night and will again this evening.  Parken is the stadium where the Danish national team plays football.

When set up for concerts, the stadium can accomodate 55,000 screaming 40-something-year-old Danish women. Robbie sold out both nights. 

To put this in perspective, there are 5.5 million people in all of Denmark.