Search results
Minogue has eight number-one albums on the ARIA Albums Chart, the most for any female Australian artist. [ 2 ] [ 3 ] In the United Kingdom, she holds the record for being the first female artist to score a number one on the Official Albums Chart in five consecutive decades, from the 1980s to the 2020s.
- Nick Levine
- ‘Fever’ (2001) Minogue’s eighth album could have been overshadowed by its era-defining lead single, ‘Can’t Get You Out Of My Head’. That it wasn’t is a testament to the project’s effortless confidence and strength in depth. ‘
- Aphrodite’ (2010) Eleven albums in, Minogue had earned the right to compare herself to the Greek goddess of love and pleasure. Executive produced by Madonna and The Killers collaborator Stuart Price, ‘Aphrodite’ is cohesive, stylish and polished to a gleaming sheen.
- ‘Light Years’ (2000) Following the “Indie Kylie” era, Minogue pivoted back to pure pop. Led by the brilliant Number One hit ‘Spinning Around’ – “threw away my old clothes / got myself a better wardrobe” – ‘Light Years’ is the campest album in a discography not exactly known for macho moments.
- ‘Impossible Princess’ (1997) The mid-’90s is often referred to as Minogue’s “Indie Kylie” era, partly because she teamed with Nick Cave and the Bad Seeds for the hit murder ballad ‘Where The Wild Roses Grow’.
In November 2020, Kylie's 15th studio album DISCO landed at Number 1 on the Official Albums Chart, and helped Australian singer Kylie make chart history as the first ever female artist - and...
- Kylie
- Enjoy Yourself
- Let’s Get to It
- Kiss Me Once
- Golden
- Rhythm of Love
- Disco
- Tension
- Kylie Minogue
- Aphrodite
Then famous in her native Australia as Charlene in the soap opera Neighbours, Minogue became an unlikely pop star when her cover of the 1962 hit “The Loco-Motion” became an unexpected international smash. The 19-year-old was plopped onto English production trio Stock Aitken Waterman’s assembly line, where it sounds like she was forced to suck down ...
There isn’t a whole lot to differentiate Minogue’s sophomore effort from its predecessor, right down to the oversized hat on the album’s cover. Released just over a year after the singer’s debut, Enjoy Yourself repeats the first album’s sonic template almost verbatim, including a cover of a classic pop song (in this case, the 1958 doo-wop hit “Tear...
On her final album for PWL Records, Minogue continued to peel herself away from the SAW hit factory that helped make her a star. New jack swing, hip-hop, and house are more prominently featured, though none particularly successfully. Produced by the first and last thirds of Stock Aitken Waterman, tracks like “Word Is Out,” “Too Much of a Good Thing...
Minogue’s first album not to spawn a U.K. Top 10 hit since 1997’s Impossible Princess, Kiss Me Once lacks a distinct sonic point of view, incorporating pop-rock, disco, dubstep, and R&B in equal measure. If there’s an overarching theme to the album, it’s sex and its various consequences: Minogue fantasizes about it on “Sexy Love,” she sweats about ...
The Nashville-inspired Golden, whose title commemorates Minogue’s impending 50th birthday, is the singer’s most personal album since Impossible Princess. Both her anxiety about and joyful resistance to her mortality is apparent in songs like “Dancing,” “Live a Little,” and the title track. “Sincerely Yours” is a “love letter” most likely directed a...
From the disco-infused “Step Back in Time” to the techno-pop “Shocked,” the potency of Rhythm of Love’s singles alone makes it the strongest of Minogue’s PWL albums. With “Better the Devil You Know,” the singer had begun to shed her girl-next-door image, but the album also saw producers Stock Aitken Waterman developing their signature sound, which,...
Nothing on Disco reaches the high camp of 2001’s “Your Disco Needs You,” but the infectious “Monday Blues,” which boasts intertwining strands of disco DNA from both Chic and Kool & the Gang, makes a valiant attempt. Occasionally, Disco ventures into parody, but while the album might be a purely derivative work, its period arrangements—all sweeping ...
Kylie Minogue’s Tension may be the Australian pop singer’s first non-themed album in nearly a decade, but an unambiguous sonic thread links all 14 of its songs. From “Things We Do for Love,” perfect fodder for a top-down cruise along the PCH, to “You Still Get Me High,” which sounds like a cut from an imaginary Molly Ringwald rom-com, Minogue is fu...
After churning out four albums in as many years with Stock Aitken Waterman, Minogue parted ways with the production team’s label in 1993 and signed with Deconstruction Records. The pop star’s first album with the label resulted in a creative rebirth that’s reflected in the eponymous album’s title and embrace of club music. (Perhaps emulating classi...
Like Fever before it, Minogue’s 11th album, Aphrodite, has aged like a fine cheese. Slick and futuristic, thanks to producer Stuart Price’s slick synth beats and canned strings, the album is the sound of Minogue playing to her base following two albums that largely strayed from the anthemic club songs that put her back on top in the early aughts. T...
In the following years, Minogue became the only female artist to have a number-one album and a top ten single, from the 1980s to the 2020s in the UK charts, with Disco (2020) and "Padam Padam" (2023) respectively.
Sep 25, 2023 · Kylie Minogue storms ahead in the race for this week’s Official Number 1 album, with Tension currently outselling the rest of the Top 20 combined. Kylie’s 16th studio album – preceded...
Sep 29, 2023 · Kylie Minogue celebrates her ninth Official Number 1 album with Tension. The Australian superstar’s 16th studio album, featuring recent Top 10 single Padam Padam and title track Tension, earns...
