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Kylie Minogue scores her sixth UK Number 1 album with Golden: “I am overwhelmed!”
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Kylie Minogue is shining bright at the top of this week’s Official Albums Chart as new album Golden, lands straight in at Number 1.
The Australian star’s 14th studio album shifted 48,000 combined sales, eclipsing the first-week totals of her last three album releases, The Abbey Road Sessions, Kiss Me Once and Kylie Christmas.
Kylie tells OfficialCharts.com: “I don’t know where to start… Thank you to everybody who has been involved in getting Golden to Number 1. I am so overwhelmed, happy, proud, emotional and very, very thankful and grateful. Much love and many, many, many thanks.”
Golden is Kylie’s sixth chart-topping collection in the UK and first in eight years, following Kylie (1988), Enjoy Yourself (1989), Greatest Hits (1992), Fever (2001) and Aphrodite (2010). Look back at Kylie’s complete Official UK Chart history here.
Golden is also Number 1 on the Official Vinyl Albums Chart this week. With 6,400 vinyl albums sold, it is the fastest-selling vinyl album of 2018 so far. The collector appeal doesn’t stop at vinyl; Kylie’s Golden is also the fastest-selling cassette of the year to date and has already outsold the best-selling artist album cassette of 2017, Kasabian’s For Crying Out Loud. Read on for 50 Golden chart facts about Kylie.
The record finished 13,000 ahead of its nearest rival, the The Greatest Showman soundtrack, which slips to Number 2 this week. Check out the Official Top 40 biggest albums of 2018 so far.
What’s more, with just over a month to go until Kylie celebrates the big 5-0, she’s already crossed the threshold in terms of hit singles – Dancing enters the chart this week at 38, giving the pop princess her 51st UK Top 40 hit of her 30-year career. View Kylie Minogue's Top 40 best-selling singles.
New entries and high climbers
30 Seconds To Mars log their highest ever chart placing this week with America at Number 4, one slot ahead of The Courteeners’ St. Jude Re:Wired at 5, extending their unbroken streak of Top 10 albums to six.
US rapper Cardi B opens at Number 6 with her debut album Invasion of Privacy, ahead of another debut release from Tom Misch – Geography is new at Number 8. Eels close the Top 10 at Number 10 with The Deconstruction, their 14th UK Top 40 record.
There are new entries in the Top 20 for Blackberry Smoke’s Find A Light (12) and Deeper by Lisa Stansfield (15), while the debut, self-titled record from Goat Girl impacts at Number 24 and was the best-selling album in independent record shops this week.
The Dead Daisies earn their highest charting album of their careers with Burn It Down at 28, while Arctic Monkeys’ former chart-topper AM returns to the Top 40 at Number 31 following the announcement of their new album Tranquillity Base Hotel & Casino.
Finally, Elvis Presley collects his 94th UK Top 40 album with The Searcher – Original Soundtrack at Number 32.
View this week's Top 100 Official Albums Chart in full here
Article image: Christian Vermaak
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Dneaeade
It sells well the first month because a lot of people were anxious to get a brand new album from Kylie (especially after a four year hiatus), but "Dancing" didn't set the charts on fire and "Stop Me From Falling" which is ten times better than "Dancing" is doing worse in the charts because it's not an obvious hit.
And since the album has no other charts stomper on it, I fear the album won't stay number 1 for a very long time because the greatest songs in there like "Lost Without You" or "Every Little Part Of Me" are bonus tracks, "Sincerely Yours" is adorable but hardly a hit single material and all the other tracks are boring ("A Lifetime To Repair"/"Music's Too Sad Without You") or nothing new ("Raining Glitter"/"One Last Kiss"). Shame almost all the other songs sound the same in there (handclaps and guitar, handclaps and guitar etc.).
DG
David Gibbs
I thought Elvis Presley-The Searcher would have entered higher than 34 after a fair bit of publicity.
MusicStan_1997
Well deserved. I've bought seven copies of Golden in multiple fromats, not including the bundle from Kylie's website, and I haven't stopped listening to it since it came out last week, it's a brilliant album from start to finish.
Kirk Bottoms
there say cassette sales for golden was doing well. but where can you buy cassette from what high streets or shopping centres
tarotworldtour.wordpress.com
Wonderful news! I wish I had been a direct contributor but I did share the song and sing its praises all these three months. Pretty awesome and hope it self-perpetuates to a wider audience because it is a record of merit. tarotworldtour.wordpress.com
Idrees Saleem
My girl Cardi gon be No.1 too <3
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Tamás
Congratulations, Kylie! Well deserved #1 for a brilliant album!
Josué Martínez
YAAAS!
CW
Chris Walton
yay Kylie - she truly deserves this number one for an album that she's put so much heart into :)
Piran
I think 'The Greatest Showman' will probably go back up to #1 again next week, but huge congratulations to Kylie! :)