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The official Kylie thread; New album "Golden"
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Kylie Minogue: 50 golden chart facts about the original pop princess

With 50 UK Top 40 hits under her belt and new album Golden out now, Official Charts brings you 50 chart facts about the pop superstar.

Imagine a world without Kylie Minogue. On second thoughts, don't go down that hole, because we have and it wasn't pretty. Thank goodness we have her.

Anyway, with a mighty 50 UK Top 40 hits to her name and new album Golden out now, Official Charts brings you 50 chart facts about the pop superstar. See what we did there? Right, deep breath...

1. Kylie Minogue has had 7 UK Number 1 singles – the same number as Michael Jackson, Robbie Williams, Elton John and George Michael. They are: I Should Be So Lucky, Especially For You, Hand On Your Heart, Tears On My Pillow, Spinning Around, Can’t Get You Out Of My Head, Slow.

2. Across those seven singles, she’s logged a total of 16 weeks in pole position.

3. She’s spent a total of 20 weeks at Number 2 over the years. Argh!

4. Rihanna, The Spice Girls and Madonna are the only female acts to have more UK Number 1 hits than Kylie Minogue.

5. Kylie’s singles have so far spent 316 weeks in the Official Singles Chart Top 40.

6. Of that, 118 of them were in the Top 10.

7. Kylie is the most successful Australian on the Official Chart. Her Neighbours chum Jason Donovan trails her, with four visits to the top spot.

8. 11 of Kylie’s singles peaked at Number 2 on the Official Singles Chart. Only Madonna has more, with 12.

9. She’s had plenty of Number 2s (if you know what we mean) but only two Kylie songs have peaked at Number 3 – In Your Eyes in 2002 and All The Lovers in 2010.

10. Kylie has been kept off Number 1 by the same band on three separate occasions with three different songs, but who is this chart nemesis? It’s Scottish quartet Wet Wet Wet.

11. Kylie has scored at least one Number 1 album across four decades, 80s, 90s, 00s and 10s.

12. Kylie has landed at least one Top 10 single across four decades, 80s, 90s, 00s and 10s.

13. After Kylie’s fourth Number 1 Tears on my Pillow, she had to wait ten and half years for the next one — Spinning Around in 2000.

14. Wow peaked at Number 5 – the highest charting ‘Wow’ song in the UK. Kylie’s track peaked higher than songs by Kate Bush, Lil Bow Wow, Blackstreet and The Stylistics. Wow! Check out the full list here.

15. Only six artists have more Top 10 hits than Kylie – she has 34 as a soloist, and 36 if you include her involvement in the Band Aid II and Helping Haiti charity singles.

16. Four of Kylie’s Top 10 hits are collaborations, the first being Especially For You with Jason Donovan in 1988, and the last being 2011’s Higher with Taio Cruz.

17. Between 1988–1991, Kylie had 13 consecutive Top 10 singles in the UK. Word Is Out broke the run, peaking at 16.

18. Kylie’s last Number 1 single to date is 2003’s Slow.

19. Slow is also Kylie’s lowest selling Number 1 – 169,000 sold.

20. On a happier note, Slow was the first Number 1 on which Kylie had a writing credit.

21. Kylie has scored 50 UK Top 40 singles, apt considering she is turning 50 in 2018. Her first was I Should Be So Lucky in 1988, and her latest was Santa Baby in 2017.

22. Speaking of Santa Baby, it was originally released as a B-side in 2000, and took 17 years to hit the Top 40.

23. Santa Baby is also Kylie Minogue’s most streamed song, with 14 million plays.

24. Santa Baby is among five cover versions that Kylie has taken Top 40 – The Loco-Motion was first in 1988, Tears On My Pillow was next, hitting Number 1 in 1990, she then released two in the same year, Give Me Just A Little More Time and Celebration, both in 1992.

25. Kylie Christmas is the 15th best-selling Christmas album of the century. Check out the full list here.

26. I Should Be So Lucky is Kylie’s longest reigning chart-topper, sitting pretty at Number 1 for 5 weeks. It’s sold over 700,000 copies.

27. Kylie Minogue has two million-selling singles, 1988’s Especially For You and 2001’s Can’t Get You Out Of My Head.

28. It took Can’t Get You Out Of My Head just over four months to sell a million, but Especially For You took over 25 years.

29. Can’t Get You Out Of My Head is Kylie’s longest-running single on the Official Chart, notching up 30 weeks in the Top 100.

30. Peaking at Number 7, Can’t Get You Out Of My Head was Kylie’s first Top 10 single on America’s Billboard Hot 100 since The Loco-Motion reached Number 3 13 years earlier.

31. The Loco-Motion is Kylie’s biggest selling single to peak at Number 2, with 434,000 copies sold.

32. When The Loco-Motion entered the chart at Number 2, it was the highest entry ever by a female artist on the UK charts at that time (Whigfield would break this record in 1994 when Saturday night debuted at Number 1).

33. Kylie has five Number 1s on the Official Albums Chart. They are: Kylie (1988), Enjoy Yourself (1989), Greatest Hits (1992), Fever (2001), Aphrodite (2010). Only two women have more: Madonna (12) and Barbra Streisand (7) - see the full list of here.

34. Kylie’s first album also spent longer at Number 1 than any other of her releases, spending six weeks at the top.

35. Across her five Number 1 albums Kylie has spent a total of 11 weeks at the top of the Official Albums Chart.

36. Kylie’s debut album yielded her strongest run of singles from an album – five Top 2 hits.

37. Kylie’s self-titled debut was released in July 1988 and was the biggest selling album of the year, shifting 1.29 million copies in that six months alone.

38. Kylie has two Top 10 albums both with the same title. Her 1998 studio album, originally entitled Impossible Princess, was renamed ‘Kylie Minogue’ in Europe following the death of Diana, Princess of Wales. When re-released in 2003, it reverted to its original title.

39. Only two of Kylie’s 13 studio albums have missed the Top 10 on the Official Albums Chart: Let's Get To It (1991) and Kylie Christmas (2015).

40. Kylie and her sister Dannii’s collaboration 100 Degrees was the 17th best-selling single on vinyl in 2016.

41. In June 2017, Kylie’s album Fever reached Number 4 on the Official Vinyl Albums Chart after being released on wax for the first time.

42. Love at First Sight peaked at Number 2 on the Official Singles Chart in 2002, but did you know Kylie had previously released a song of the same name? The first LAFS appeared on her debut album from 1988.

43. All The Lovers is Kylie’s most downloaded song in the UK, with 361,000 downloads.

44. All The Lovers has sold more copies than three of Kylie’s Number 1s, and more than 10 of her Number 2s – it truly is the one that got away for Kylie.

45. Spinning Around was Kylie’s first song to debut at Number 1, with first week sales of 82,484.

46. Kylie’s first headline single to miss the Top 40 was Put Your Hands Up (If You Feel Love), the fourth single from her 2010 album Aphrodite.

47. Kylie’s longest gap between studio album releases is four years, from 2003’s Body Language to 2007’s X (though she did release a greatest hits in between).

48. Kylie’s biggest ‘non-single’ (i.e album track) is Love Affair from 2001’s Fever album.

49. Kylie is all about the love – three of her singles feature the word: Love At First Sight, All The Love(rs) and Put Your Hands Up (If You Feel Love).

50. When Chocolate went to Number 6 in 2004, it was the second time Kylie had seen all the singles from three consecutive albums reach the Top 10, starting with Light Years’ Spinning Around four years earlier. Her last streak had been with her first three albums from 1988–1991. Strictly speaking, she improved on that when the two singles from her Ultimate Kylie hits collection also went Top 10, giving her four Top 10-producing albums in a row.

http://www.officialcharts.com/chart-news/kylie-minogue-50-golden-chart-facts-about-the-original-pop-princess__21489/
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Let's have an albums rate!

1. Light Years
2. Body Language
3. Golden
4. X
5. Rhythm of Love
6. Fever
7. Aphrodite
8. Kylie Minogue
9. Enjoy Yourself
10. Kiss Me Once
11. Impossible Princess
12. Let's Get To It
13. Kylie

By the way, I even enjoy the lower ranked ones, but for me, the top 3 are pretty much all killer, no filler!
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1. Light Years
2. X
3. Impossible Princess
4. Body Language
5. Rhythm of Love
6. Kylie Minogue
7. Fever
8. Golden
9. Aphrodite
10. Kiss Me Once
11. Kylie
12. Enjoy Yourself
13. Let's Get To It

She has never released a truly awful album. There's a bunch of songs to love on each and every one of them.
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Apr 9 2018, 10:26 PM
She has never released a truly awful album. There's a bunch of songs to love on each and every one of them.
So true!
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You both put Fever at 6 or 7????
Oh My God. Such a wrong lists! I'm thinking on mine.
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1. Fever
2. Light Years
3. Kylie
4. Kylie Minogue
5. Golden (still thinking, too early)
6. Aphrodite
7. Rythm Of love
8. Let's Get To It (guilty pleasure, and I adore Finer Feelings)

Albums I don't like or barely care about (yes I have them, starting from the least favorites):
1. Body Language (Red Blooded Woman is the worst thing like EVER). Hate the album, Kylie gone very 'current'
2. X (The One is very gay and nice though)
3. Impossible Princess
4. Kiss Me Once

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Music's Too Sad probably her best song. So perfect.

Yeah, I should have put Golden way higher. A grower. Addictive as fuck.
Her vocals are so pure. Unbelievable album.
Two first singles gave a very wrong feeling.
Edited by Anastasia Beaverhausen, Apr 10 2018, 10:28 AM.
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https://youtu.be/IEt-0Uv0vt0

Something's wrong with putting videos on here .
This guy is so sexy!!!! Google him!
Edited by Anastasia Beaverhausen, Apr 10 2018, 10:51 AM.
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Apr 10 2018, 08:01 AM
You both put Fever at 6 or 7????
Oh My God. Such a wrong lists! I'm thinking on mine.
I've never been a huge fan of Fever. Half of it is very good, but the other half is really poor. I've also never been a big fan of CGYOOMH. It's far too simple and repetitive. In Your Eyes and Love at First Sight are the standouts.
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Apr 9 2018, 07:59 PM
What a wonderful performance. Great vocals and good God, she's really looking stunning these days. BMG are definitely pulling all stops with the promo.

Number one album should be in the bag. Riv's right, BMG nailed it with all those physical formats available for pre-order. Quite interestingly, Dancing is also number 16 in midweeks what with it climbing back to itunes top 20, but streaming numbers have not been added yet. Not sure if sales of 7 inch physicals are included, though. They could make all the difference if there's a decent shot at a top 40 peak.
Golden is on 37.5k as of today. Dancing is #28 in today's midweeks now that the streaming data has caught up.
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You both put Fever at 6 or 7????
Oh My God. Such a wrong lists! I'm thinking on mine.
I've never been a huge fan of Fever. Half of it is very good, but the other half is really poor. I've also never been a big fan of CGYOOMH. It's far too simple and repetitive. In Your Eyes and Love at First Sight are the standouts.
You just called best pop-dance song of all times mediocre?
:spank:

I know it's beyond being overplayed, but still. :files:
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Apr 10 2018, 08:01 AM
You both put Fever at 6 or 7????
Oh My God. Such a wrong lists! I'm thinking on mine.
I've never been a huge fan of Fever. Half of it is very good, but the other half is really poor. I've also never been a big fan of CGYOOMH. It's far too simple and repetitive. In Your Eyes and Love at First Sight are the standouts.
Guess I really need to see the poor one half. You can't. You couldn't and wouldn't. Shouldn't.

(Still can't find the right verb).
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So there will be a Kylie musical... :alexz: :files: :voodoo: :celebrate:

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Today's UK midweeks!

1 Kylie Minogue - Golden (40.7k) *
2 Motion Picture Cast Recording - The Greatest Showman (23.7k)
3 George Ezra - Staying At Tamara's (14.9k)
4 Thirty Seconds to Mars - America (13.5k) *
5 The Courteeners - St. Jude Re:Wired (11.7k) *

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Oh gosh.
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Thursday midweeks

1 Kylie Minogue - Golden (43.9k) *
2 Motion Picture Cast Recording - The Greatest Showman (28.6k)
3 George Ezra - Staying At Tamara's (17.3k)
4 Thirty Seconds to Mars - America (14.2k) *
5 The Courteeners - St. Jude Re:Wired (11.8k) *
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Apr 10 2018, 01:11 PM
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Apr 10 2018, 08:01 AM
You both put Fever at 6 or 7????
Oh My God. Such a wrong lists! I'm thinking on mine.
I've never been a huge fan of Fever. Half of it is very good, but the other half is really poor. I've also never been a big fan of CGYOOMH. It's far too simple and repetitive. In Your Eyes and Love at First Sight are the standouts.
You just called best pop-dance song of all times mediocre?
:spank:

I know it's beyond being overplayed, but still. :files:
Most of Fever was mediocre for Kylie's standards, but the singles were such dazzling, iconic highlights. Can't Get You Out Of My Head is probably underrated these days because of ridiculous overexposure over the years. However, I still remember that hot Sunday afternoon in August 2001 listening to it for the first time on the radio and instantly thinking this was quite a glorious moment in the history of pop music.
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Apr 12 2018, 06:53 PM
Thursday midweeks

1 Kylie Minogue - Golden (43.9k) *
2 Motion Picture Cast Recording - The Greatest Showman (28.6k)
3 George Ezra - Staying At Tamara's (17.3k)
4 Thirty Seconds to Mars - America (14.2k) *
5 The Courteeners - St. Jude Re:Wired (11.8k) *
Not only 6th Number One is in the bag but opening with 45K+ is an amazing feat regardless of multiple formats sold with album bundles. It's not the fanbase buying 3K copies on a daily basis, looks like the general public are responding positively.

HOWEVER
Dancing is 36 in Thursday midweeks. It'd be an absolute triumph if she could get a top 40 hit regardless of lack of streaming. The single deserves it, too, it's been moving up and down on itunes chart for three months now. I know itunes performance matters a little at this climate but, still, it does indicate an broader appeal beyond her usual niche market.

Chart debuts of Golden in Australia and Germany are going to be interesting, too. Australia seems to have embraced her once again, while the album is number 2 in German midweeks.
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You made me listen to Fever. To find that other half of the album, which is mediocre.
The most weak song seems to be Dancefloor, but still it's like from Light Years (with that retro feeling). As Burning Up also.

Such a perfect album. All the other songs are pure pop perfection. Low for Kylie standards??? So wrong. I'm breathless. Speechless.
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