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Reply #60 posted 07/06/10 2:08pm

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Aphrodite sold 32,632 in its first day in the UK, more than double her nearest competitor, Eminem.

In comparison, X had first day sales of 27k three years ago during a stronger sales period (the UK just had its lowest-selling #1 album ever with Christina Aguilera's Bionic, which debuted in the pole position with only 24k sold for the entire week).


She will be the first artist to have #1 albums in the 80's, 90's, 00's and 10's.

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Reply #61 posted 07/07/10 10:26pm

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She will be the first artist to have #1 albums in the 80's, 90's, 00's and 10's.

woot! KYLIE!!!!

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Reply #62 posted 07/07/10 10:47pm

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and sorry Chico about Saturday... i thought i told my ride to pick me up after the DreamGirls Revue at Bourbon, he thought i said i'd meet him at Bacchus, but without my auto at the moment i was stuck. hope you had fun at the SD Kylie launch party.

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and sorry Chico about Saturday... i thought i told my ride to pick me up after the DreamGirls Revue at Bourbon, he thought i said i'd meet him at Bacchus, but without my auto at the moment i was stuck. hope you had fun at the SD Kylie launch party.

sorry?!? don't be!! you should've called. we could've picked u up. and THANKS for the info. got a few promo items. was an interesting night. to say the least whistling

and FYI, there are 3 more release parties this weekend up north. looking into it since i have to go to the Embassy anyway. biggrin

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and sorry Chico about Saturday... i thought i told my ride to pick me up after the DreamGirls Revue at Bourbon, he thought i said i'd meet him at Bacchus, but without my auto at the moment i was stuck. hope you had fun at the SD Kylie launch party.

sorry?!? don't be!! you should've called. we could've picked u up. and THANKS for the info. got a few promo items. was an interesting night. to say the least whistling

and FYI, there are 3 more release parties this weekend up north. looking into it since i have to go to the Embassy anyway. biggrin

yeah i thought of that after i got into bed. i think dj jon saved a couple things for me for the next time we have coffee. i'd love to go but Pride week starts for me tomorrow and i have date on saturday so i'll go in spirit.

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Reply #65 posted 07/08/10 1:06am

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(listening to Aphrodite)

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This must be Kylie's gaymostest record ever. Even more so than "Light Years".

I find her vocal delivery a bit unenthusastic throughout the record to be honest. confused

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Reply #66 posted 07/08/10 2:22am

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I've listened to the album several times now, and I like it quite a bit! I'm glad that she's back to the mode of crafting a unified "sound" as she had with Fever and Body Language but abandoned for X in favor of a pop kaleidoscope. It's probably my 4th or 5th favorite album of hers, and I'm quite happy with that. biggrin

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Reply #68 posted 07/11/10 2:08pm

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Reply #69 posted 07/11/10 11:55pm

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God. Look. At. The. Size. Of. That. Football. Compared. To. Her.

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God. Look. At. The. Size. Of. That. Football. Compared. To. Her.

you should know by now that Kylie is pocket sized. lol

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Kylie Minogue: Crazy for Kylie!
The Australian pop star's long-overdue arrival in the U.S. with a brilliant new album proves, once again, there's more to Kylie than "The Loco-Motion."
By Noah Michelson

On a sweltering June night, deep in the cool, cavernous belly of the New York Public Library, Kylie Minogue is dressed like Cinderella on her way to the Black Party. In a white Jean Paul Gaultier gown outfitted with a harness that stretches from its leather bustier to fasten around her tiny waist, she looks out over a sea of men pushing bits of rubbery lobster around their salad plates and asks, “Can you believe I’m here in New York?” The predominantly rich, gay, and famous audience -- Marc Jacobs, Cheyenne Jackson, and Lance Bass among them -- have put out $1,000 or more to see Minogue host amfAR’s Inspiration Gala honoring Gaultier and Ricky Martin, and they titter appreciatively in response, delighted to be in on her little joke. They know exactly what the diminutive Australian singer is getting at.

Minogue has sold more than 60 million albums worldwide, was the most-played female artist of the last two decades on U.K. radio, and has received an Order of the British Empire from Queen Elizabeth II for services to music and a Chevalier de l’Ordre des Arts et Lettres insignia, one of France’s highest cultural honors. But to most Americans -- the straight ones, anyway -- she is only vaguely familiar, a name they can’t quite put with a face but with whom they feel they might have once shared a brief, bright moment years ago.

Minogue came to America in the summer of 1988 -- a baby-faced 20-year-old pop pilgrim peddling a catchy, if slightly dorky, cover of Little Eva’s 1962 hit “The Loco-Motion” -- years before Britney or Christina bobby-pinned their first pairs of mouse ears on top of their heads. She came before Fergie had inhaled her first hit of meth, before Lady Gaga was bluffin’ with her muffin (in fact, her muffin was barely out of her mother’s oven). But the considerable fame the single brought her in the U.S. dried up faster than you can sing “chug-a chug-a motion.” By 1989, she seemed well on her way to being a one-hit wonder.
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Peter Waterman, one-third of the producing and songwriting team Stock Aitken Waterman -- better known as the Hit Factory and responsible for monster singles from ’80s acts like Bananarama, Rick Astley, and Minogue -- partly blames a lack of promotion for the sudden radio silence. “We couldn’t get [Minogue’s] people to commit to America,” he says. “You’ve got to give America respect -- it’s the biggest country in the world as far as record sales are concerned.”

Furthermore, by the early ’90s, rap and grunge were taking over the airwaves. Reigning pop queens Madonna and Janet Jackson were dirtying up their images and sound by shedding their inhibitions -- and more and more clothing -- on their albums and in their videos. It was difficult to pinpoint exactly how to pitch the squeaky clean Minogue to an increasingly pop-phobic nation. “It’s very simple to sit in a studio in London and think, This will be a hit in America,” Waterman says. “But how arrogant is that? We had no bloody clue what would be a hit in America.”

Undaunted by the American lockout, Minogue looked elsewhere and concentrated on promoting her ever-expanding empire -- which today, aside from 11 studio albums, three live CDs, and eight live concert DVDs, also includes bed linens, lingerie, and a line of fragrances. She came to be worshipped as a bona fide pop deity in almost every major market in the world, bar the United States. Minogue was an irresistible mash-up of the girl next door and the simpering sex kitten. Straight women wanted to be her, straight men wanted to bed her, and gay men -- overseas and in the U.S., where they make up the bulk of her fan base -- couldn’t get enough of her. “She’s like Glinda the Good Witch,” says Scissor Sisters’ Jake Shears, who befriended Minogue when they first worked together in 2004. “She has a really loving, open, sexy spirit that makes a lot of gay guys think she’d be a great best friend.”

In 2002, she released the throbbing, hypnotic “Can’t Get You Out of My Head,” a clear departure from the bubblegum pop of her previous singles, and the song shot to number 1 on nearly every European chart. Its deceptively simple “la la la” chorus was so inescapably catchy—and unlike anything else on the radio at the time—that even in the U.S. it launched into orbit in the Billboard Top 10. Still, she forewent touring here, dropping by for just a short spin around the late-night talk-show circuit, and instead chose to channel most of her energy into promoting the single in proven markets like Europe, Australia, and Japan. Other than her public struggle with breast cancer in 2005, it was the only time in the last 20 years that her name resonated in America.



Last September, U.S. fans finally got theirs when Minogue brought her For You, For Me tour to North America, for a short, six-city run. “I wasn’t here to prove anything or sell anything and that was absolutely liberating,” the 42-year-old Minogue says, all five-foot-one of her curled up on a couch in the Mandarin Oriental during a week of nonstop events in New York City, which culminated in a surprise midnight visit to Splash, the city’s most famous gay club, where she performed her new single, “All the Lovers,” and debuted snippets of her 11th studio album, Aphrodite. “That whole tour last fall was from the heart. I might as well have just burned hundred dollar bills because it cost me a fortune, but I didn’t care,” she says. “I thought, I have to do this now or I’ll regret it.”

This sudden urgency was, in part, set ablaze courtesy of one Lady Gaga, whose dizzying ascent to power has in a few short months changed the face of the music industry and whose influence on the market now offers Minogue the opportunity to finally win over America. But, paradoxically, rather than cashing in on the Auto-Tuned, electro-scuzzy craze now dominating radio and the iTunes sales chart (and which she has flirted with in the past, most notably on 2008’s X), Minogue is boldly going exactly where she began: back to 1988.

“Lady Gaga dropped a meteor in the middle of the pop landscape -- which is amazing,” Minogue says. “But it meant that we had to take that into account. It wouldn’t have made any sense to go down that road to try to fit in.” Instead, Aphrodite delivers lighthearted pop songs -- woozy with crushes, trampled hearts, and late-night excursions to the local disco -- made up of sweeping piano lines, fizzing synths, and layered background vocals, all of which would have sounded right at home on Minogue’s debut.

“The record isn’t trying to be clever -- it delivers exactly what we want from Kylie, which is pure pop,” says Shears, who cowrote the standout “Too Much” with Minogue and Calvin Harris. “When we were writing lyrics together, sometimes she’d put something down and I’d think, Oh, my God, that is the lamest thing I’ve ever heard! And then it comes out of her mouth and it’s absolutely brilliant. That’s the beauty of her and that’s the beauty of great pop music—taking something very, very simple and injecting it with meaning and emotion.”
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“We didn’t want to try to reinvent the wheel,” Minogue says. “We just wanted to make really good songs.”

Really good -- and really gay. Aphrodite was helmed by executive producer Stuart Price, who is responsible for some of the queerest -- and best -- pop music to emerge from the past decade including Madonna’s Confessions on a Dance Floor and Scissors Sisters’ recent Night Work. “I made some of the gayest-sounding songs I’ve ever made with Kylie and Jake,” Calvin Harris told the Sydney Star Observer. “I’d listen to it and think, Wow, this is really gay.... The old euphoric rush has something to do with pop music.” Shears agrees. “I can’t stand labeling something ‘gay music,’ but there is something incredibly anthemic about the album.” For her part, Minogue laughs and claims, “I don’t have any objectivity,” before conceding, “The songs definitely make you want to put your hands up, which probably makes Jake and Calvin think of being at the club. There’s a micro-rush in all of them -- we give you a minute to calm down and then it’s ‘whoop whoop’ all over again.”

But a trip to the club alone does not a gay man -- or gay sensibility -- make. And Minogue’s uncertainty regarding Aphrodite’s queer quotient is ironic. When her videos aren’t directly exploring queer themes -- in “All the Lovers,” (see above) for instance, Minogue casts herself as a goddess conducting and blessing a pansexual orgy from atop a writhing pyramid of half-naked bodies -- they’re soaked in homoeroticism, camp, and the kind of sexual empowerment that has long been an envy of the gay community. Her live shows have featured covers of Boy George’s “The Crying Game,” “Somewhere Over the Rainbow,” Madonna’s “Vogue,” and ABBA’s “Dancing Queen.” Her muscular, kinetic backup dancers are regularly cross-dressed and coupled in same-sex pairs for playfully raunchy numbers (like a shower scene in a men’s locker room). Sometimes they’re stripped entirely of their gender, reduced to H.R. Giger–inspired drones that worship Minogue, their alien queen, or dressed as a jubilant gang of futuristic pop-and-lockin’ androids. It’s almost as if Minogue is attempting to push past our obsession with sex and sexuality to free herself, and us, from its limitations.



Still, unlike other female pop stars, Minogue has never felt the need to pander to gay fans -- or to shock and titillate straight ones -- by flirting with bisexuality. In January, after a Mexican magazine published a story claiming Minogue had admitted to liking women, she responded via Twitter, “OMG such a load of hype and nonsense ... misquotes and an interview that never HAPPENED!!! Grrrrr!!!” Asked to clarify, Minogue says, “I didn’t speak with a Mexican magazine. They took a bunch of random quotes -- some of which sounded familiar and some they’d taken from somewhere that has nothing to do with me. So far my sexuality has been with men, but I stand by the video for ‘All the Lovers’ -- if it’s love, it’s good.”

Legendarily polite about her competitors (she calls Madonna, the woman to whom she has drawn the most comparisons, “inspiring” and Lady Gaga “brilliant”), Minogue doesn’t have much to say about their supposed penchants for same-sex dalliances. “I suppose it’s pretty trendy. I don’t even have a tattoo. I’m so untrendy,” she says, adding, perhaps metaphorically, “I think maybe I should have one -- I’d secretly like to have a galaxy somewhere.”

Whether or not that galaxy will end up including the United States remains to be seen. Aphrodite is the singer’s most cohesive and arguably best work to date, but with Americans still heavily favoring hip-hop and electro-pop, Minogue’s brand of pure, heady, and, yes, gay pop might fall on deaf -- or otherwise occupied -- ears. Waterman, the man who helped launch her career all those years ago, suggests no matter how good an album is or how heavily it’s promoted there are still too many factors to predict its success. “You can sit down and plan,” he says, “but the truth is it might be released on the wrong Tuesday, or the temperature might be too cold for people to come out to your gig, or you may turn up late because of some unperceived circumstances, and suddenly people think you’re arrogant and it’s over just like that.”

Minogue herself resents the notion that her career is any less successful because she hasn’t yet conquered the U.S. “It’s frustrating when people say ‘This is finally her push for America’ -- it’s not like that. It’s not centered around whether or not I make it in America, and I think that was poetically proven last year [with the For You, For Me tour],” she says. Shears thinks that at this point in her career, Minogue’s success on the charts is the last thing on her mind. “I think when she came and played [New York City’s] Hammerstein Ballroom last fall, it proved that there is a real hunger for her on stage here,” he says. “She just wants to connect with the people and whether that fan base remains the capacity of the Hammerstein Ballroom or it becomes the entire United States, it doesn’t really matter to her.”

Minogue would be lying if she said she didn’t care how the United States responds to Aphrodite, but she insists it all comes down to her fans. “It cuts like a knife if I read a bad review,” she says, stabbing at her chest. “But in the end, how the album is received by the press won’t make any difference to me -- I’d still come back. A few thousand people in a room sharing two or three hours together -- when all the other stuff gets too complex to understand, that’s a really good place to bring it back to.”



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Reply #76 posted 07/12/10 4:55pm

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I just heard All The Lovers for the first time, love it so much more than the dance stuff that's on the radio here from Kesha and them! Something about it remind's me of Obsession-Animotion too and Lights!

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I just heard All The Lovers for the first time, love it so much more than the dance stuff that's on the radio here from Kesha and them! Something about it remind's me of Obsession-Animotion too and Lights!

I love Kylie and I loved her ever since I heard 'Step Back In Time' way back in 1990... 'All The Lovers' is great, not too keen on the next single though 'Get Outta My Way' BTW I don't know if it is mentioned or not but 'Aphrodite' will most probably become her second US Top 40 album as it will probably enter in the 30s or even 20s in next week's BB200 which is a great thing

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Reply #78 posted 07/12/10 6:00pm

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This CD was sold out everywhere I looked. Finally tracked it down YESTERDAY (the deluxe version).

Congrats Kylie woot!

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Watermill Summer Concert With Kylie Minogue

The Watermill Summer Concert is a one-of-a-kind event on the East-End of Long Island combining the sleek beauty of Robert Wilson's Watermill Center and the breathtaking landscape of the grounds with a live outdoor performance featuring this unique pairing of pop singers. The proceeds of the concert will support Watermill's Fall and Spring Residency Program that provides young and emerging artists who embrace avant-garde, multidisciplinary approaches with space and time to explore and further develop their work. The artists exhibit or perform their work for the Hamptons, Long Island, and New York community as part of their residency experience.

Tickets range from $150 to $1000; the latter price including access to a backstage meet-and-greet with the artists after the show! For tickets, please visit The Watermill Center website, call the Byrd Hoffman Watermill Foundation at 212.253.7484 ext 18, or email

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eek another edition of the album!!

http://music.uk.msn.com/x...15507a1050

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Reply #82 posted 07/14/10 7:34am

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Like wow! She's such a knockout. Her man is a lucky fella.

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Like wow! She's such a knockout. Her man is a lucky fella.

i'll take her AND him!! nod drool

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Kylie Minogue: Web Exclusive PDF Print
Written by Robbie Daw | Wednesday, 14 July 2010
Tags: web exclusives, kylie minogue, aphrodite, soapbox, interviews, robbie daw

When former Instinct cover girl Kylie Minogue sat down for our Soapbox feature in the July/August issue, her new album Aphrodite was on the horizon, her birthday was just around the corner and her sister Dannii had yet to give birth to son Ethan Edward Smith. As it turns out, Ms. Minogue had a lot more to say than we could squeeze into the magazine. So crank up the foxy Aussie’s just-released 11th studio album (you have picked up a copy, right?), and dive into our Q&A with everyone’s favorite dance-pop diva from Down Under.

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Hello, Kylie! It’s lovely to be talking with you.

Well, it’s good to be having a bit of an Instinct moment again.

Yes—you were the September cover girl last year.

I loved that cover!

The mag gave me a ring to say they were interviewing you again, because they know I’m a bit bonkers for you.

They wouldn’t hear the end of it if they didn’t do the right thing.

Well, first of all—three days early—Happy Birthday!

Thank you!

Do you have anything special planned?

You know, I don’t. I’m so bad at doing those kinds of things. I think it’ll just end up being just a dinner with a few friends.

Those are sometimes the best birthdays.

Yeah. It’s just not the time. I’ve got to travel the next day, so I don’t want to stuff it up.

Congratulations on Aphrodite. I think the first thing you notice when listening is it’s a total “Kylie” album.

Oh, thank you!

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It’s you doing full-on you. And we’ll get to that in a minute. But let’s talk about the U.S. tour you did last year.

Did you manage to come to any shows?

I saw you at the Hollywood Bowl here in Los Angeles. It was amazing.

It was amazing for me. It was really a project from the heart. And I guess when you do something like that—very sincerely—the rewards are really great. That’s how I felt about that experience.

Now that the dust has settled on your first live jaunt through the States, how would you describe it all?

Oh, I was elated. It was magical. There was a lot of love in the air. And I guess the final thought is that it was inspiring. Very inspiring.

Did anything unexpected happen? Any moments that surprised you?

I just wasn’t expecting it to be so wonderful. I mean the response was beyond my dreams. It was amazing.

Are there plans to come over to this side of the pond again for Aphrodite?

I’m going to tour Aphrodite, and do all the old stuff as well, next year. So, my ideal thing would be to revisit the places I went to last time and perhaps add on some more. I feel confident enough that, if we can figure it out—you know, the team putting together the dates—to at least revisit where I was. I feel pretty confident I’d be able to sell tickets, basically.

Admittedly, I’m addicted to Aphrodite. Was it the intention to make such an “up” album?

Absolutely. That’s why we called upon the wizardry of Stuart Price. Because I’d started working with different writers and producers around the tracks, as a lot of pop stars do these days—and as I’ve done before. Sometimes it’s worked better than other times. But I really had a deep need that this album would be cohesive. I originally talked with my A & R team—they said, well, we don’t want to send you all around the place again. We’ve done that. We’ve learnt from that. But then one thing led to another, led to another, and suddenly I realized we were in the same position again. And that’s when we had to have a big old think and a slight battle—and I had to dig my heels in to find a way to not end up continuing down that road. Jake Shears with Scissor Sisters, they were working with Stuart Price at that time. I consider Jake to be the fairy godmother of this album, because he was the one who was quite insistent and very passionate about my project, which is amazing considering he had so much going on himself. And he thought it would be amazing [for me to work with Stuart], so that’s pretty much how that came around.

The day your single “All The Lovers” premiered, you tweeted, “Wherever you are, send love out into the universe.” Where do you draw your own strength from on a day-to-day basis.

There are days where I just really have to pick myself up to do it. But mostly it’s all a means to an end. And the end is to make music, which is what I love doing. Really, as long as I’m being creative, I’m happy—and that could be decorating my house or being in the studio or concocting the next tour. There are so many different outlets I have in my career. I just need to be engaged creatively. So, promo’s not the most fun time, but so far it’s been alright because I think there really is a kind of celestial energy with “All The Lovers,” and that seems to have translated. So I couldn’t be any more overjoyed with that.

For the rest of our interview with Kylie Minogue, pick up the July/August issue of Instinct.

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July 14, 2010 // 4:53 PM // Article by Team Bloginity

International Pop Icon Kylie Minogue returns to the Billboard 200 this week as her 11th studio album Aphrodite (EMI’s Astralwerks Records) debuts at #19, marking her highest U.S. chart position since 2002’s Fever. It is top 10 in such major markets as New York, Los Angeles, San-Francisco, DC, Seattle, Miami, Chicago and Boston. Aphrodite became Kylie’s fifth #1 album in the UK, hitting the top spot a full 22 years to the week since her debut album Kylie entered the chart. The album also made Kylie the first solo artist in the history of the UK charts to have a #1 album in four different decades. Around the globeAphrodite debuted in the top 10 in thirteen different countries including #1 in Mexico, #2 in Australia, Switzerland and Spain, #3 in Austria, France and Germany and top 5 in Belgium, Holland, Ireland and Taiwan.

Click here to download Kylie Minogue’s New Album, Aphrodite.

“I’ve been completely overwhelmed by the reaction to ‘Aphrodite’ around the world and to hear that the album has got to number 19 in theU.S. is the most amazing news. I am ecstatic!” said Kylie.

Aphrodite sees Kylie celebrate her dance-floor roots and features Stuart Price as Executive Producer. The list of songwriters includes Kylie, Stuart Price, Calvin Harris, the Scissor Sisters’ Jake Shears, Nerina Pallot, Swedish House Mafia, NERVO and Keane’s Tim Rice-Oxley. Critics and fans around the globe have been praising the album as one of Kylie’s best. The first single “All The Lovers” has been heating up airwaves and dancefloors around world since the start of summer. It reached #1 on the UK airplay chart and is currently #6 on the U.S. Billboard dance chart. The Joseph Kahn (Lady Gaga, Britney Spears, Katy Perry) directed video premiered on MTV’s LOGO last month and is also being played on Music Choice. Kylie recently graced the June/July cover of Blackbook Magazine and is currently on the August cover of Out Magazine which hit newsstands this week.

In the Fall of 2009 Kylie stormed America to sell out her first ever North American tour. The 6-city tour kicked off in Oakland and made stops in Las Vegas, Los Angeles, Chicago, Toronto and New York, wowing fans and critics alike at each stop. Entertainment Weeklycalled the show a “two-hour post-disco fantasia of strobe, bass, and glitter—an all-out spectacle.” The New York Times claimed “The concert (was) efficient, clobbering, expensive, generous…close to an alternate reality.” Kylie treated her U.S. fans with a new song “Better Than Today” which she played for the first time during the tour. Kylie is expected to make an announcement about a 2011 world tour soon.

Over the course of her extraordinary 20-plus-year-career, Kylie Minogue has been a global force in pop music and is one of the world’s most successful female artists with more than 60 million albums sold worldwide, 50 hit singles including the U.S. Billboard dance-chart toppers “Can’t Get You Our of My Head,” “Love At First Sight,” “Slow,” and the Grammy-Award winning “Come Into My World.” She has received countless awards and accolades including an OBE from the Queen, 8 sold-out world tours including the KylieX2008 tour which traveled to 21 countries throughout Europe, South America, Dubai, Asia, New Zealand and Australia. Minogue has released ten studio albums, three live CDs, eight live concert DVD’s, plus her Greatest Hits, Ultimate Kylie double album and Boombox The Remix Album 2000-2008. Kylie has her own successful bed linen line “Kylie at Home” and has released 6 fragrances, the latest “Couture” for women and “Inverse” for men. Her 7th fragrance “Pink Sparkle” was released this month.

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Reply #87 posted 07/15/10 6:12am

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The bonus tracks click with me better than most anything that's on "Aphrodite":

I'm not a huge fan of the record myself. I know it's quite close to her material from "Fever", but it just isn't entirely working for me. The arrangements are just a bit too busy and the filter sweep thing got old years ago. If this record is a good example of Stuart Price's production skills, then I have to say I'm not that impressed in overall. I was never really into his earlier Les Rhythmes Digitales or Zoot Woman projects either.

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love the b-sides!!! love

this album = cloud9

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Reply #89 posted 07/15/10 6:45pm

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European Album Charts Top 100

#1 album in Europe!

Gurls And A Goddess Put EMI At No. 1 On European Charts

July 15, 2010 - Global

By Paul Sexton, London

In a double victory for EMI, Kylie Minogue's "Aphrodite" (Parlophone) makes a No.1 debut on Billboard's European Albums chart while "California Gurls," (Virgin) by Katy Perry featuring Snoop Dogg starts a second week atop Hot 100 Singles.

Minogue's new set leads the way in the United Kingdom (on sales of 79,000, according to the Official Charts Co) and debuts at No. 2 in Switzerland, No. 3 in Germany, France and Austria, No. 4 in the Netherlands and No. 5 in Ireland. It also climbs 3-2 in Spain and 11-3 and 6-4 in the Belgian regions of Wallony and Flanders respectively. The Australian star's last album "X" debuted at No. 5 on the pan-European chart in late 2007; four years earlier,
"Body Language" opened at No. 9.
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