Official Chart numbers and information for the United States should come out tomorrow or on Wednesday.
Kiss Me Once debuts at #2 in the UK. The album was kept from the top spot by George Michael's latest album, which sold 20,000 more copies than Kiss Me Once.
Official Chart numbers and information for the United States should come out tomorrow or on Wednesday.
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![]() Also a prediction that "Into the Blue" will be her 35th Top 10 single in the UK!
Next week Kylie releases her 12th studio album, and in this week’s Official Singles Chart she’s eyeing up her 35th Top 10 hit with Into The Blue. To celebrate Kylie’s return to the Official Charts, we count down each of Kylie’s Number 1 singles, from the very first in 1988, all the way up to her most recent in 2003 – in order of sales. ![]() UK fans can now purchase "Into the Blue."
"Sparks," the B-Side to "Into the Blue" can also be purchased in the UK by clicking here. You can listen to "Sparks" on Tumblr as well by clicking here. **Note: "Sparks" was not uploaded by this site or anyone associated with it. "Into the Blue" Worldwide iTunes Chart Positions #26 United Kingdom #29 Ireland #38 Switzerland #42 Germany #42 Ireland #55 Austria #83 Botswana #87 Czech Republic #87 Spain #90 Philippines #93 Ukraine #108 Lithuania #140 Estonia #174 Luxembourg #184 United Kingdom #201 Vietnam #207 Chile #208 France #213 Italy #217 Belarus #225 Russia #232 Belgium #254 Kyrgyzstan #264 Thailand #266 Hong Kong #338 Taiwan #355 Lebanon Kiss Me Once Worldwide iTunes Chart Positions #7 Cape Verde #38 Czech Republic #61 Kyrgyzstan #73 Switzerland #84 Belarus #95 Uzbekistan #97 Dominican Republic #107 Ukraine #116 Germany #122 Belgium #135 Australia #138 Ireland #166 France #175 Russia #176 Honduras #202 Bulgaria #216 Italy #231 Singapore #301 Austria #350 United Kingdom #362 Greece Source: Kworb ![]() Kylie Minogue beats Madonna in time between chart toppers
LONDON – Kylie Minogue dethroned Madonna as Britain’s longest-reigning pop princess Monday, as measured by the time between first and last chart-toppers, after the Australian singer’s latest single went straight to No.1 in the music charts. The song “Slow” gave Minogue her seventh No. 1 in Britain – 15 years and nine months after she first hit the top of the charts with “I Should Be So Lucky” in 1988. Madonna went 15 years and one month between her first British No.1 1985’s “Into the Groove,” and her last, “Music,” in 2000, according to officials with the periodical “British Hit Singles.” ![]() Kylie Minogue: Still so lucky
From pop puppet to self-assured siren, Kylie Minogue's career has taken her to the musical wilderness and back again. In the week she sits once again at the top of both the UK album and singles charts, Caroline Frost of the BBC's News Profiles Unit examines the enduring appeal of this diminutive diva. In 1988, a pop phenomenon swept both Britain and Australia. The word Kylie entered the UK's national vocabulary, babies were named after the Australian star and now, 13 years later, it seems it may just happen again. She may only be five feet in height, but Kylie Minogue is walking tall this week. The song Can't Get You Out of My Head has become her biggest worldwide-selling single to date, and with her eighth album, Fever, she once more takes her place at the pinnacle of pop. She made a cameo appearance in the recent hit film Moulin Rouge, and last year sang in front of an audience of billions at the Sydney Olympics. Not bad for someone who came to the public consciousness from the underside of a broken-down car. As the dungaree-clad, grease-streaked mechanic Charlene in hit Australian soap Neighbours, young Kylie proved an unlikely superstar. But with her big, blue eyes and bigger bubble perm, she captured the late 1980's zeitgeist. When Kylie and boy-next-door Neighbour Jason Donovan walked up the television aisle to the strains of Angry Anderson, international celebrity was assured for both. Revelations of their off-screen affair did nothing to hinder their popularity. The young couple were both signed to formulaic hit-makers Stock, Aitken and Waterman. They had no control of their own music, but the collaboration capitalised on their fresh-faced appeal and spawned a catalogue of hits. These days Donovan has been consigned to performing to indifferent audiences, but Kylie's career has long exceeded the usual shelf life of a teenage icon. If Kylie felt constrained by her squeaky clean image, she soon turned it on its head by starting a romance with the bad boy of Australian rock, the late Michael Hutchence. Kylie's music and appearance became dramatically less innocent, and heralded her gradual divergence from her fan base. According to Kylie, however, Hutchence didn't corrupt her. "He wasn't as bad as everyone thought," she said, "and I wasn't as good. We met somewhere in between." Her fans remained equally nonplussed when, in 1992, Kylie changed record label and made an attempt at musical reinvention. Collaborations with Nick Cave and the Manic Street Preachers followed. Kylie reportedly found "singing at the Jazz Café with Nick Cave more important than having a number one single" - just as well, as her newly-found credibility didn't exactly make for a host of hits. By 1998, Kylie Minogue was without record label and, apparently, a future. Like all real divas, Kylie came into her own when the chips were down. Her ability to hit the high notes and camp up her own outrageous glamour had long earned her a loyal gay following, and so in 1998, she went out on the road, dressed like a trapeze artist, and played to the gallery of these appreciative audiences. And now she's back, a fully-formed doyenne of disco, happy to live with the contradictions that her career have brought her. Australian to the core, Kylie is regarded as a British national treasure and a straight lads' fantasy figure. Her performances are flirtatious, but she's sharing the joke. What has always been beyond doubt is that Kylie can actually sing, and her talent continues to pull her through. In a business that has seen multitudes of grinning starlets fall off the branch, Kylie is back at the top of the tree, better for the years in the wilderness. She says, "You can't manufacture a relationship with your audience. If you're pretending, you can't get away with it." Gay audiences can spot a phoney from the back of Hammersmith Palais, and they all adore her. She has travelled a musical odyssey, and come back to what she does best. Kylie Minogue remains an unashamed pop puppet, but this time around she's pulling her own strings. |