On July 4, 1988, Australian singer and actress Kylie Minogue released her debut album, Kylie. While she was best known at that time for her role as Charlene Mitchell on the long-running soap opera Neighbours, singing a cover of “The Loco-Motion” with several of her co-stars changed her fate.
The Cover Song That Changed Everything
Shortly after seeing her perform “The Loco-Motion” in 1986, producer Greg Petherick convinced her to re-record it, and then began submitting it to record labels. It worked. The single’s buzz, paired with her Neighbours fame, was enough to convince Mushroom Records to sign her in 1987. A year later, she released her debut album, Kylie, and the rest, as they say, is history.
View this post on InstagramWhile Minogue has undeniably had an incredible music career, her status as an icon was cemented in 2020 by the Guinness World Records. That year, it was announced that the “Can’t Get You Out Of My Head” singer was the first female artist with five consecutive decades of No. 1 albums in the UK.
The album that secured the record was Disco, released during the pandemic. It became her eighth No. 1 album in the UK with 55,000 sales in the opening week, the best she’d done in a decade. Of course, that first No. 1 album, Kylie, had also earned her many accolades, including becoming the first album by a female solo artist to sell more than two million copies in the UK. It also earned her the title of youngest female artist with a No. 1 album in the UK, a title she held until Avril Lavigne dethroned her in 2003.
Despite only reaching No. 53 on the Billboard 200, she debuted at No. 2 on the UK Albums Chart before reaching No. 1, a position it held for six weeks. Along with Queen, Michael Jackson, and Dire Straits, Kylie was the UK’s fifth best-selling album of the 1980’s.
Five Decades and Counting
It’s rare for a debut album to double as the first chapter of a decades-spanning legacy, but that’s exactly what Kylie did. Thirty-plus years, eight UK No. 1s, and one record-breaking pandemic album later, Minogue is still writing her story.
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