Kylie Minogue EXCLUSIVE: Padam Padam becomes her first UK Top 10 song in 12 years

I read your previous post on this and it was clearly a disgusting and shameless act of sabotage. Did anyone write a piece on it, or try to take it further?

Not that im aware although digital spy did a piece and her social media accounts were bombarded. Of course it did whst most jealous execs wanted, trashed her debut single from interscope and the press labelled her a flop, which it wasnt! Far from it actually! From what i recall it was headed top 5 with over 50k sales and highly likely number 1. The fact is, interscope released the single AS a standalone track from the album without an actual single release of its own.... this is exactly what MOST stars do today. Pre order the album and get the debut single instantly, and get charged for it. Which is exactly what Interscope did with Madonna, later with Gagas Rain on Me & BMG with Kylie now.... but Madonna gets 2-3 days of sales discounted????

I think they saw their error with Madonna and allowed following acts to use that method. Madonna? We're still waiting for it to be rectified.

I will always say she had a number 1 album & single in 4 decades.... because she was cheated. And the Official Charts know it. Why else would they be allowing artists today to do the same marketing strategy?

Digital Spy did a lengthy piece and her socials at that time were on fire. She was cheated! It was a deliberate attempt to sabotage her 4th era, it worked. The single was on track to be her 14th UK number 1 or at the very least top 5. We were charged 99p for the single when we pre ordered the MDNA album and the single was downloaded. You could also purchase it from the album at 99p, as the remix EP & physicals came the following week... both strategies used in exactly the same way as BMG are with Kylie now and a myriad of artists new album launches since 2012.

I will always maintain she had a top 5 single in the 10's in the UK. They cheated her and it needs rectifying to bring her in line with others the Official Charts have turned a blind eye to

Talk about historical revisionism

It wont happen, the establishment has been chipping away at Madonna's legacy & influence for decades in a bid to lessen/weaken her achievements. In the end though, it wont come down to who has what in how many decades. Nobody is going to remember those boring statistics, how many times have you read Madonna's incredible chart achievements this past 2 decades??? We all know she got dragged off stage at the Brits, that her MDNA album didnt sell as much as her previous efforts or that she's had surgery ... but nobody talks about her albums going diamond or her latest studio album Madame X topping the charts in major music markets and its parent tour topping box office score records.... it doesnt suite the press narrative. That shes washed up, crazy, over, unstable LOL! Which she is none of those things.

Kylie fans have very short memories! Back in the 80's & 90's her music was laughed at. She was a joke. Not to be taken seriously. The only reason the media support her now, is because she plays everything safe, she takes no risks, has no opinion on anything nor does she stray from that lane. Essentially shes pandering to media and societal norms. And her fan base (although mostly old gay men!) are just as bad. Ridiculing Madonna for being sexually liberated and outspoken. Women like Madonna who are strong seem to offend conservative queer men. Its a bizarre state of affairs. And in the process they have placed their diminutive idol into a box forever. They've made it nearly impossible for her to diversify. This song wont last forever and people soon bore of the same agenda. Her disco effort may have hit number 1, but it was hardly ground breaking stuff. It bombed pretty much everywhere.

It will be interesting to see how the media react to an aged woman when she turns 64, trying to cling on to the lime light without resorting to new tactics. There's no way Kylie can continue in the lane shes coasting forever. And when she does switch it up, watch the media crucify her for it.

Radio 1 recently C listed Kylie on their rotation, this isnt an achievement! Madonna was C listed with Medellin and has been B listed weeks before with Popular. It all seems rosy for Kylie fans until she runs out of steam with her current rotation of conservative pop. What happens when people tire of it? They did in the 80's & 90's. And it will happen again

Well, that works both ways. Kylie getting a top 10 hit in one country doesn't give her fans the right to trash Madonna's achievements either. This site is not a Kylie Minogue website, yet her fans turn every article, and every chart update into a battleground and couldn't care less about spoiling it for others that may want to discuss their favourite artists. The fact that one of you actually went on Madonna's page last Friday, and started attacking her 3 hours before the charts were announced says it all, and it's not just here either, it's everywhere on social media. Her fans expect to dish it out, but can't take it. It's time the old queens grew up and accepted the fact Madonna will always be bigger and more successful (yes, I'm talking about you Miss Northcote). Padam getting into the UK top 10 doesn't change anything.

That will be amazing Damian!!

"She didn't need to collaborate with younger acts to get inside the top 10"? Kylie's previous top 10 was Higher (with Taio Cruz) (2011). It seems almost IMPOSSIBLE for the fans to enjoy Padam Padam without taking shots at Madonna.

Love them both! both talented artists...

Yeah we'll leave that to Elton John.......Britney Spears, Dua Lipa, Blue......over the years that's his trick. Mind you with all due respect he's been going that long there are probably not many older artists than Elton so collaborating with a younger one is a moot point. Lol.

Kylie was about 42 at the time of 'Higher', not exactly one foot in the grave. In defence of Madonna though, 'Masterpiece' is in my opinion one of the best songs she has ever recorded, and it was criminal that it didn't do better than it did. Should have been a top ten easily.

I don't think that was their point. Kylie's one and only top 10 of the 2010's was All The Lovers. The other singles from Aphrodite ALL failed to get into the top 10 despite the promo. Why do you think she jumped at the chance to work with someone who had 6 top 10 hits (including a #1) within two years after a string of flops? Fans keep gloating about Padam Padam going top 10, but It's funny to think she hasn't cracked the top 10 for 12 years and needed an avalanche of promo, cds, cassettes, remixes, extended versions to do so. 42 may not be old to us, but women of that age are seen as past it by R1 and it's young audience. Madonna (at a similar age) had 4 top 10 single's (including a #1) from the Music album alone - the very same album that blocked Light Years from #1. lol

Neither has Madonna cracked the top 10 since 2009 so your point?

And when Madonna was Kylie’s age the music business was way different and not stacked against older artists.

Well that's another lie. At 47, Tracy Chapman re-entered the charts with Fast Car in 2011, Jennifer Lopez went to #1 (it stayed in the top 5 for 6 weeks), and she also had a top 3 hit the following year. Kate Bush got a number 1 in her 60's last year, and yet according to you: "the music business was different and not stacked against older artists back then". lol

Jennifer Lopez was before streaming, Tracy Chapman and Kate Bush were hits due to going viral. Kylie has done this with an original song.

I don't know why Minoguettes are giving this the thumbs down. It's not like any lies were told.

Madonna hasn't had a top 10 since 2009 so that's even further back. Kylie's amount this week was 25,900 and 22,708 was streaming so she still would have been higher than Madonna on 12,400and vulgar on 4,000 lol. Kylie has had number one album in 5 decades and a top 10 hit in those same 5 decades and Madonna has not. Get used to it. Madonna may be the highest selling in the world but not the highest selling female in the USA it's Barbra Streisand. Canada and France it's Celine Dion and Madonna is not the top for everything. If Madonna hasn't broken a record and someone else has you say it's worthless, it would be worthless also then if Madonna broke the same record, so you contradict yourself.

Also worth remembering that Kylie has had two million+ selling paid for singles in the UK. Not many people can boast that.

Nobody's caring for Madonna..
We are all enjoying the Padam success

A few gays in the UK doesn't constitute worldwide. Madonna's 85 date tour is a global sell out, with south American dates to be announced. The joke's on you.

One with the help of Jason Donovan.

Dont know about gays cos Im not, maybe you can tell me better as you seem to be a hard die gay

Carry on clutching at straws, that still leaves the other one, which is STILL more than a lot of other people can manage. You know as well as I do that if 4 Minutes or Me Against The Music were million sellers, you'd be here making sure everybody knew about it. The fact that it was with Jason Donovan and not the likes of Timberlake or Spears makes it all the more impressive, she wasn't exactly riding on his coat tails.

You're the one clutching at straws and telling white lies.

What's so impressive about EFY notching up a million, sung by two talentless plebs playing up to their old characters? Everyone knows the UK had a fixation with Australian soaps, and Neighbours was attracting up to 10 million viewers twice a day. All the actors were treat like royalty over here, even Bouncer the Dog was a huge star. lol

Jason and Kylie were Australia's biggest exports, and their on screen romance was the reason it did so well in the first place. EFY was so sickly, it should've had a health warning and puke bucket attached to it.

Kylie loons would have everyone believe EFY being a 1m seller was all her doing, yet can't explain why ISBSL or any other song from her debut couldn't rake in 1m sales.

CGYOOMH was nothing but a blip on the radar, as the lack of sales from all the following singles have proven.

MATM was a Britney song, not Madonna's.

I can't abide 4 Minutes, so there's no chance of me gloating about that, but at least it has meaning and not some lovey dovey nonsense made for dweebs living their lives though Kylie and Jason.

Come off it. You're as bent as a bunch of Bananas. lol

So Kylie didn't have a million seller from her debut album, did Madonna? Or from any of her other albums? Like I have said before, I like both singers, and Madonna should have had million sellers, but the fact remains, she hasn't.

Jennifer Lopez went to #1 in 2011, so what stopped your disco dolly doing the same with any of the singles from Aphrodite (2010)? Tracey Chapman re-entered the chart because someone performed it on Britain's Got Talent. Kate Bush did go viral from Stranger Things, so at least you got something right.

Madonna wasn't gracing our screens twice a day like Kylie was in Neighbours, so Madonna's debut isn't comparable to Kylie's.

and Into The Groove is over 1 million now, so you're wrong.

Hahah....you're so funny stupid

55 actually.Sore loser 😂😂😂😂 top 10 in 5 decades not top 40 it's top 10 😂😂😂

give over man. it’s doing well on streaming and is a tiktok success - lots of hits nowadays stem from tiktok virality. the only reason it’s gotten media support is because kylie has done it across 5 different decades, which is rare for an artist (the bbc reported this because it’s a big deal). you’re butthurt and you know it, plus you’ll be 54 soon so shut up

Shes a local act whos done things at the whim of the media, but at a cost to the gay community. Shes where she is because she played it safe and she played it boring. They like their pop tarts simple, not strong, malleable, with no opinion and totally inoffensive. Gay icons are supposed to be anything BUT all that! And they certainly dont thank their only fanbase by playing gigs in arab nations where homosexuality is illegal. She is aimed AT the gay community. Sadly, some old queens out there still buy her fake persona

Exactly! I honestly don't know why they're celebrating when it was essentially the same gays repeatedly purchasing it that bumped it up the charts. Dear old Aunt Sally at number 52, or Sharon and Tim down the road couldn't care less about this Kylie song, and nobody else does either. Ask anyone outside of her demographic what a "Padam" is and they would look at you as though you were insane, and I can guarantee that those CDs and Cassettes will be on Ebay or in a landfill a year from now.

and still not enough to break Madonna's UK record of number ones, here or anywhere else for that matter.

You lot are are such hypocrites, just admit you are *ed because Madonna has not been able to achieve what Kylie has. No other legacy artist apart from Abba has done what Kylie has. Madonna is talented and we all recognise the icon she is, especially for paving the way for other female artists. But stop being so bitter and let us enjoy our Kylie achieving a massive hit in todays era when so much is stacked up against her. It's always the same accounts like to troll any page about Kylie. It just shows what sad lives you must leave. Perhaps turn off your computer and go out and enjoy the weather.
Kylie has a fan base outside of the gay community. So what if she has played in Arab nations which I'm sure Madonna has done in her career. But Kylie has supported us, when gay kiss wanted to be cut from All the Lovers she refused. Kylie will always support us gays. Anyway, happy for Kylie to enjoy her 35th top 10 hit in five decades.

My mum who is 61 knows this song and at her Zumba classes the song is being played every week. My 12 year niece and her friends loves the song. So it's has crossed over, this song will grow and could even go number 1.

How can Kylie be a local act? She is from Oz ffs, She has had hits all over the world, USA isn't the only part of the world that matters. Such arrogance.

i really like madonna (in fact i prefer her to kylie, just a personal preference) but she wasn’t even brought up in this conversation yet these mfs want to move the goalposts. i’ve said this before, but madonna wouldn’t like seeing these comments at all. like, can’t people just be happy about an artist’s success without comparisons, that’s all i want

sadly it’s not going number 1, maybe a further rise but dave/central cee have a healthy lead on streaming and olivia rodrigo is returning too

Look at Kylie's main artist page and all the comments are from the same idiots. You are so right Madonna and Kylie wouldnt like this silly competition of who is the best. They are icons in their own way and have both influenced pop culture.

maybe another no 2 to add to her many others

You could quite possibly BE the most hypocritical, braindead moron I've ever come across on the OCC. It was only yesterday that you went on Madonna's page (three hours BEFORE the charts were announced) to start your BS, and you were all over Madonna's page last week too, in fact, you've been spouting your BS on there for months, and you have the nerve to come here and say that?

You didn't detect the shady posts?

Why are people willing to believe Kylie's fans have never:

1- Done anything to provoke us

2- Gone on social media to trash Madonna at any opportunity

3- Been nasty or rude about Madonna's children, her lovelife, boyfriends, and her appearance

4-Started arguments on Sayhey with fans of both women and then cried to the mods until they had all Madonna threads closed/banned.

5- Trashed Madonna's music, art, videos on YT, ect, ran here to trash every article written about her, including start nonsense with fans on her own page?

All this goes back 30 years or more.
There's no excuse for ignorance just because you're young.

oh someone does not get irony

Madonna still sucking up the young ones to get some sort of legitimacy 🤣 Sam Smith and The Weekend, maybe she can get a UK #1 and #2, if her fans streamed enough🤷

I am shocked she never had a top 10 in the 2010s? Am sure Max Martin will get her another global #1, like when ABBA+ Stuart saved her with Hung

She was a UK citizen for almost 30 years. I'm surprised you didn't know that, or maybe you did and just playing ignorant to justify your petty stan war. "Hits all over the world" is another lie too considering the vast majority were flops. Not only is Madonna a global icon with so many global hits to her name, she's growing on Spotify too and well on her way to getting 40 Million monthly listeners.

Being a 'local' act is great. It means we get treated to it and no one does. Far better than 'Global' acts that everyone and his pet monkey gets. Bit boring that. What other country would enjoy the likes of Mr Blobby and Loadsamoney?! It's what makes the UK charts so fun and the others.....not!

Fun??? The only old act in the top 10 in 20 years is an Australian 🫣

LOL Tiao Cruz, Jack Savoretti, Ollie From Years & Years, jessie Ware, Dua Lipa, all these Z listers and still no hit single. Whos the youth sucker??? Every single from Confessions reached the UK top 10 on their own merit. Stay bitter at the fact Madonna re invented the genre she came up in during the 80's with Confessions. Kylie never even touched on Disco until Madonna's Music kept that cheesy Lightyears from number 1 in the UK & Australia. Since 2005 Madonna had 3 more hit albums around the world and one of the biggest selling singles of her career. Touring?? She still has the number 1 & 2 top grossing tours of all time for a female. Kylie is playing festivals up and down the UK 😂😂😂. Kylie hasnt had a global hit album since 2001 😂😂😂 nor single for that matter!

I think when you look at Madonna's chart success globally, she's very much still on top for a legacy artist over Kylie. But you know Kylie stans, local in every sense!

And the only reason Madonna is losing out certain numbers in the UK to her, is because she no longer has a real presence in the UK AND, lets be honest since 2012 Madonna's musical output has been unusually low. Just 3 studio albums and a remix album vs 4 studio albums and 3 hits packages for Kylie. Still Madonna continues to do what she does best... lead the pack. Even at 64 SHE led the way to where music is going discovering the power of TikTok with 2 remixed songs which both have garnered around 140 million streams WW. Frozen & Back That Up have even managed gold status in countries like France, the US, Italy and many others... because the charts are becoming obsolete. Madonna didnt need to lift a finger in promo with barely no physical copies and shes still landing GLOBAL hits at 64. But never mind smiley kylie is at number 9 in the UK only so it must mean she's the greatest female artist of all time? 😂😂😂😂😂😂

That pic of Madonna is beautiful...!!!

Jason I wouldn't bother feeding the troll on here. It has 2 other phoney profiles it uses to slag off at whoever is doing better than Madge... which these days is everyone.

False, but the accusations from Kylie fanatics are amusing to say the least. Jake something or other uses at least 6-7 phoney profiles to tarnish Madonna on here. Truth be known, yours is probably one of them.

Jog on, mate!

*Blocked*

Yes I suppose you are right it’s just frustrating that they seem to be all on anything Kylie. And then they have the audacity to call us trolls. Talk about projection. Better to not feed the trolls.

Sorry her recent “musical output” has been awful. Madonna hasn’t released anything good since 2005. UK charts has a lot of influence and one of the most popular charts in the world. Hence why people all over are using this site. So Kylie having a top ten in the U.K. today is a very big deal.

Hasnt released anything good since 2005???? LOL Well that is a matter of opinion and thankfully, the critics dont share that opinion. If you're basing it chart placings then you're deluded.. 90% of Kylies musical output has been critically panned, mediocre pop with no cultural significance or depth. Her albums rely on the same generic bland genre, basic pop. She has no Like A Prayer, Ray of Light, Evita, or culture defining albums like Erotica or Madame X which i might add, contain world music that would never cater to the air head gay fans who happily sit there listening to Kylies meaningless, repetitive rubbish shes be churning out since the 80's. Madonna is on another level. Her albums frequent The Times, Billboard, Rolling Stone lists of greatest albums, videos and songs of all time. I mean the last time Kylie tried to be experimental she got cancelled for the whole of the 90's. Shes been through that many record labels in a bid to stay in the game, she's no more labels left to try!

Comparing Madonna & Kylie is like comparing The Beatles & One Direction. You just dont! Since 2005 Madonna's output may have been half that of Kylies but the quality has been FAR superior both critically and commercially on a global scale. Want proof? Go watch the video to Madonna's Ghost-town or Living For Love, and then Watch Dancing or Say Something by Kylie..... its like class v trash

Madonna has played in Arab nations.

Yep. So how does that change the nationality or level of fun in the UK chart?

Or why does having an old act in the chart matter at all?

The sales didnt come from streaming, the streaming figures for this novelty song are poor, they came from multiple physical formats drip fed over weeks which proves shes not garnering a new audience at all, its just her usual crowd snapping limited drip fed formats. Most other artists are not doing this old fashioned approach. Its just streaming

An honorary Australian by accident at birth, we all know she is a true Brit really 😉