Kylie Minogue's Tension earns her ninth Number 1 album

lmao. This is obviously that fool with the Doll avi who was prattling nonsense on here a few months ago.  Firstly, 50,000 sales doesn't mean anything when you're selling 20 different variations and colours of the same album to rabid and obsessive fans who will do anything to get that #1, many of which are already being sold on ebay after the charts were announced yesterday. Secondly, Tension sold less than Disco did, which proves her sales are falling despite the desperate tactics. Thirdly, Kylie is not the Queen of Pop and she never will be. Stop trying to take Madonna's 30 year old status away from her. Nobody ever tried to take away Michael Jackson's King of Pop crown, so why Madonna? One has to be successful worldwide in order to become the Queen of Pop, and Kylie doesn't fit the bill. Sorry.

Not when you factor in it took 6 months of pre sales and over 20+ formats. She still needs 4 number 1 albums to beat Madonna, assuming Madonna never releases another album again. Her last number 1 was 2012, Kylie went 10 years between her hits package & Fever before she got a number 1 so dont write people off regardless of age! Singles??? Not a chance. Kylie needs another 7 number 1's to beat Madonna, overall sales!! Madonna eclipses Kylie with double the albums & singles sold in the UK with less albums certainly

Must we really have this every time Kylie releases an album? Nothing about Kylie success detracts anything from Madonna’s. No male artists are constantly compared with each other the way these two are just because they are female and make pop. You could say well done Kylie and look forward to Madonna’s tour. Stop being bitter.

Where were you the week when Madonna peaked at #3 with Finally Enough Love? Kylie fans were rampant with their hate for Madonna on here. Go back and see for yourself.  It seems to be one rule for them and a different set of rules for others.  No one's bitter except them.

Not every person is going to buy all variants, even if they did she still sold over 50,000 copies which not many artists do. I believe she has one of the highest weekly sales for an album this year. 

Most artists offer variants which Madonna does, lost count how many different versions she has released of her remix album. But nothing to see here, but if Kylie does it it’s wrong. Get a grip. 

Album sales have dropped since 2020 so the fact that she still sold similar amount to disco just shows how well she is doing. 

Most of these copies on eBay you talk about are ones from the pop up shop.

Exactly, and yet there she is congratulating herself for what is essentially a one woman race to the finish line. She does it every single time now and her fans talk as if she's in the same league as The Beatles, MJ and Madonna. lol. It's hilarious and yet sad at the same time. This is all about adding more #1s to her name so she can beat Madonna's chart record for #1 albums. It's so transparent.  However, The Queen of Pop is already gearing up to do another dance album, which will probably be a hit thanks to the GH's tour. A lot of people still love Madonna and the tour will remind people why she's the Queen of Pop. Kylie isn't fit to lick Madonna's boots, end of story.

Why do sad Madonna trolls always like to invade any articles about Kylie on this site. Just sad and bitter. Kylie and Madonna have no hate towards each other and won’t like this bitterness. Kylie has released her 16th studio album and achieved her 9th no 1 with massive first week sales. Not many artists can match this. Stop being so negative and give credit where it’s due. 

Respctfully disagree, because when you compare artists that are generational talents like Kylie and Madonna the problem is that they have evolved into their own different performers and cater to different audience's. Calling people sad for enjoying an artist that they love says it all there, it's just unnessecary and quite horrible. When you look at how much impact she made even just recently at the Radio 2 at the Park. That right there is a star, and if you can't see that then it's your loss. I'll sing Kylie's praises till the day I die, and you know what I'm proud of that, and the fact this album is some of her best work. :)

20 formats? I made it 11: 6 tapes, standard LP, deluxe LP, Standard CD, Deluxe CD (HMV exclusive), Coloured vinyl (HMV exclusive). Just look at the album chart for tha last 4 years or so, maybe more. Almost every one of those 200+ also had no competition, some almost as dominant as this selling as much as the rest of the top 10 together. It's just how skewed to a very few new releases the album chart is, and why almost all #1s drop like a stone below the mainstays of greatest hits (Abba, Queen, MJ, Fleetwood mac, Elton, Bob Marley etc.) and modern acts (Ed, Taylor, Olivia, Arctic Monkeys)

Let's work out how few they 'sell': 50,000 was more than the whole of the top 20 combined. 35,000 units ahead midweek, so the #2 sold 15,000ish. That leaves 18 releases sharing 35,000 units: less than 2000 each to reach the top 20!

And people bang on about records below the top 75. They must be selling literally just dozens to low hundreds down there. It wasn't that long ago when 2000 copies wouldn't even get you on the chart, let alone relatively significant position of the top 20.

I must admit, I'm not so sure. Madonna has been barely on the PR radar for best part of 20 years. A #1 album every 5-10 years, a top 10 every 3 if you're lucky. I'm not sure she's fit enough to complete the GH tour. To my surprise, she actually lived up to that expectation by having had to pospone through health problems already. I also expect in the unlikely event of an album of new material coming out this decade, it will be no different to the mainstream in number of formats released: 5-10 minimum standard editions and possibly close to 20 when signed, ltd ed's and bundles are added to the count.

That said, Warner have been so poor marketing her and, even more so her catalogue over the last 15-20 years, it wouldn't surprise me that they don't make enough of the of the right merch or good enough products to make the bundles up to sell in the first place.

Kylie and her marketing team on OTOH, seem to be doing even more than at her SAW/PWL peak: Radio / BBC2 highlight shows, retrospectives, live interviews promoting the new album, Vegas residency, upcoming tour...All the things you would expect from an artist 30+ years her junior (apart from the Vegas residency maybe, as that is a veteran artist gig). And all without collaborations on her recordings as is the norm these days. With 4 #1s in 5 years - arguably her most successful period of her career ever.

@ Sindy, Because there are people like you that run rampant all over social media trying to rewrite history. Have you forgotten that you went on Madonna's own chart page to say Kylie the Queen of Pop after Padam reached the top 10?

Maybe if you stopped trolling, you wouldn't be corrected with facts. The only sad ones are those who can't appreciate Kylie without taking shots at Madonna, who for the record still remains the bigger artist regardless. No disco dolly will alter what Madonna has done for music, and I'm talking worldwide.

10 vinyl albums were released, 5 cassettes, 5 CD's which included signed copies, and 2 digital version. Other versions were available at HMV, her pop up shop and as exclusives that were signed. Excessive and IMO an issue that needs addressing with the official charts. It was also available 6 months in advance whereas other albums in the top 10 did not benefit from that luxury, so hardly a fair fight!

Kylies A&R see beating Madonna's 12 number 1's as huge PR, beating any long standing Madonna record is huge! But they're going about it the wrong way. And realistically, speaking of Madonna, Kylie needs 4 more number 1 albums to beat her. She may well achieve this, in another decade IF Madonna chooses to retire, but i wouldnt count on that! Madonna's singles tally however  is secure. Kylie's singles career is pretty much dead. Padam was a fluke. She needs another 6 just to level Madonna. As for sales, Kylie trails Madonna by nearly 12 million albums. Singles? She trails her by about 10 million. Not going to happen. In Australia Madonna holds the record for number 1 albums in 5 decades, Kylie? Just 4. Madonna also has the most album & singles number 1's there. Just some perspective 

And of those 4 number 1 albums, 1 is yet another hits package and all of them fell off the chart within a month. Madonna's latest album is still on chart after 40 weeks despite peaking at number 3 with just 8 formats, thats longer than any Kylie album since 2004!!!!! 

Couple of major errors in your comment TBH. Madonna is a decade older than Kylie and has been active almost a decade longer, this factors a huge difference. As for Madonna not being active in 20 years???? In 2012 Madonna performed the biggest televised event in history, the Superbowl. Shes also completed 3 huge world tours in that time and released 3 major albums that all hit number 1 on the united world album charts. Her remix album is spending its 40th week on chart, more than any kylie album since 2004! Her new tour had dates postponed and rescheduled, its due to start soon! Kylie? She's played festivals as an add on act, 1 European tour and now is prepping to play a 1000 seated venue in Vegas. Hardly the 10'000 seated MGM grand that Madonna is playing. Fact is Madonna doesnt need to go the extra mile to flog albums, Kylie does! Madonna is also at Warners in a deal that is focusing primarily on her back catalogue only, some of which hasnt been released in over 40 years. She actually has no record deal to release new music, it was part of Warners stipulation. As for the comment regarding featured artists??? Kylie in 2 years has released far more collabs. Savoretti, Dua Lipa, Years and years, And her recent disco track with jessie ware & gloria gaynor. And lets be honest as previously mentioned Madonna is a decade older, rewind 10 years to when Madonna was  55, she was touring the world in sell out stadiums and hitting number 1 globally with MDNA & Rebel Heart. Where will Kylie be at 65??? She cant play global stadia or hit number 1's outside the UK now!

Excellent comments, Thomsy.

In their respective 50's, Kylie has about half the number top 75 weeks on singles and 3 quarters on Albums (64/82), but it drops off a cliff for Madonna after age 55. Madonna 'doesn't need to go the extra mile to flog records'? With just 1 album of new material spending 3 weeks in the top 40, she hasn't exactly flogged any records to judge it by! We just don't know about releases, selling, or number of formats in the last 8 years.

T26, your comment highlights mine as to why Madonna is poor in the 21st century. I didn't say she wasn't active AT ALL, but that she was barely active in the last 20 years. As you say, 3 albums and tours in that time, averages about once every 7 years - exactly in line with my 5-10 years estimate.

The back-catalogue has barely sold - 9 weeks in the top 75 for a remix album, almost no weeks at all for any greatest hits or reissued album. Unsigned for new music - the same deal your local pub covers band has.

It's not just Madonna that Warner are poor for though. They block covers and criticism on Youtube for The Eagles/Don Henley, Led Zep and some members of Fleetwood Mac to name a few. This action prevents new fans discovering them on a major platform.

The most watched global TV event is/was the Queen's funeral.

As we discovered last week - those 40 weeks in the top 100 are not enough to be in the top 75 most weeks on chart of any of the current top 100. And most of those did it in one continuous run, not dropping out 3 or 4 times like Madonna. Let's compare the most recent greatest hits: Kylie 9 weeks in the top 40, 18 in the top 75; Madonna: roughly half 4 weeks in top 4, 9 in the top 75. Kylie matched the total Madonna top 75 in one continuous run among those 18.

Omg talk about projection when it is YOU that constantly posts on Kylie’s page. I wrote a comment replying to your post as I was sick of the constant negativity on Kylie’s page that you have contributed to. It’s all there for everyone to see. 

Anyway no one claims the title of queen of pop, it’s subjective and to me Kylie will always be the Queen of Pop. 

Anyway both are icons in their own right. 

No, you didn't, you went on Madonna's chart page and called Kylie the Queen of Pop after Padam Padam went to top 10, and you weren't replying to anything we said. You said it without provocation as a means to troll and belittle Madonna and start another argument. and no, Madonna's title is NOT subjective. She's been called the Queen of Pop ever since the 80s, in the same way Michael is the King of Pop.  Let's be real here, you guys only want that title because Madonna has it. Kylie was named the Princess of Pop, but that's not good enough for you, because you want Madonna's. Well, I'm sorry but that's never going to happen. Deny it all you like, but it's the truth. Kylie is a local piece of fluff that nobody but UK gays are interested in. Madonna is a global selling legendary icon who has scored success in places you didn't even know existed. Kylie gets a small amount of success in two or three countries and typical fans like you are behaving like she's on top of the world. lmao.

Indeed. Here we do go again. Can always rely on a Kylie article to bring out the salty Madonna fans, as their icon hasn't had any headlines for 8 years or more.

I'd like to see something relevent mentioned. Until they collaborate or release in the same week, Madonna has no relevence to Kylie and vice versa. You might as well bang on about Bananarama. At least they were PWL/SAW stablemates, and unlike Madonna, are actually nice as people - not just as musicians. Madonna really is unpleasant off stage as well as on.

No headlines for 8 years?

She literally made GLOBAL headlines when she announced the tour, but I suppose since David (pompous) Carbines wasn't paying attention, it never happened.

and I specfically remember the Kylie fans (Including yourself) were all over the charts the week Madonna didn't go to #1 with FEL, yet we're the salty ones? I have no idea why you keep flapping you lips (or rather working your fingers to the bone) anyway, because according to you, you're not a fan of either of them.

and the nerve to sit there and lecture us about niceties and using Bananarama as a shining example of how to treat people after the way Sarah and Keren treat Siobhan in the mid 80's is pure hypocrisy.  You're also a huge fan of the rancid old f*rt who just finished touring. The same person who has an even bigger reputation for being nasty to his staff as well as other celebrities like the lovely Tina Turner. What a pity we lost her....ect

Thankfully, his time has now come to an end, so we won't have to see the ghastly creature ever again.

Any more hypocritical nonsense you'd like to spew, or are you going to dig out your lice eaten book and start prattling on about the top 75 again?

One reason I was so particularly for Madonna not to reach #1 with the last release, was more because of who took the place. Yet another of Pete (God) Waterman's projects: Steps. As said so many times before, I'm NOT a Kylie fan. However, I am a Pete Waterman and Spice Girls fan, so that will involve a lot of Kylie in the collection. Tension has Spice Girls producers and Ina Wroldson songs on it, so it's bound to be good. Fan of a few others who haven't been heard of in decades either.

As far as rancind old farts, one has just finished touring? Sounds like a male act?, but I have literally no idea who you mean. I've seen every old act I ever want or need to see, the rest are dead or local newcomers, so I don't pay attention to tour announcements. There is no one left alive worth seeing. Especially if it involves enormous impersonal stadia with millions crowding out your comfort.

Steps were relevent in Madonna's week (because they released together). Madonna is not relevent on Kylie's week. No releases or events to speak of.

As you say. Madonna's tour: it literally never happened.

A Spice Girls, Steps and...Pete Waterman fanatic!!! LOL

I've lost count how many times you've asked how long it's been since Madonna last had a number 1, but let me ask you this, when was the last time the Spice Girl's had a #1 album or single? I'll refresh your memory. "Holler" was #1 23 years ago, "Spiceworld" = 26 years ago. Their 2007 Greatest Hits didn't even hit #1 after their heavily publicised reformation. When did Steps last score a #1 studio album or single like Madonna? Wait, don't answer that, I'll do it for you. "Steptacular" was #1 in 1999, their last #1 single was Stomp in 2000. The only time they get to #1 these days is with a Greatest Hits compilation, and even that was a fluke as they spent the entire week signing copies and releasing 384 different variations. Fast forward a couple of weeks to it falling from the charts quicker than a "Ray of Light", whereas Madonna's FEL was still very much there. Your bitterness makes sense now. lol

Madonna's last #1 single was 4 Minutes in 2008. You'll probably disregard that because of Justin Timberlake, but even so...Hung Up (2005) and Sorry (2006) were both #1's, and so was the album. In fact, all her albums and lead singles from 1998 onwards all hit #1. Having said that, Evita was another #1 album -it was only Erotica and Bedtime Stories that didn't top the chart.

MDNA (another #1 studio album) may have been her last in 2012, but the audacity of a Steps, SG and Pete Waterman (lol) fan trying to belittle the achievements of a legendary global icon like Madonna is laughable.

and you can play ignorant all you like, but I'm sure you know exactly who I was talking about. The Rocket Man (and his husband) have been extremely vocal about Madonna for the last decade or more. You once told me you were a fan, unless that was another load of balony and just you siding with everyone who spoke ill of the Queen of Pop.

and by the way, Madonna (Queen of Pop) is always relevant each time Kylie scores a number one, because the ones who write these articles always compare and list Madonna as the one with the most #1's.

Let me re-quote:

"The only female solo artists with more are Taylor Swift and Madonna; with 10 and 12 respectively".

Madonna's tour didn't happen?

So who's performing at the 02 on October the 14th?

I don't care how long ago they had their hits. I'm prepared to admit they are heritage acts and happy to remember them as they were. They don't need to keep going to prove themselves, nor do I expect them to. All 3 (SG, Steps, Pete Waterman as producer), as well as Kylie and Queen of Pop Reg Dwight have achieved something Madonna never has, and probably never will: A Million-selling physical single.

I don't count a 900k+ single with a few streams counting towards the total decades after it was deleted. It's not just against Madonna. Boney M fall to that fate too, as does Kylie with Jason. Madonna may have more hits, even more #1s, but not one of them has chimed with the British public as much as the biggest hit by any of the aforementioned acts. The same with albums. You won't find a Madonna studio album in the UK top 60. You'll find a Spice Girls one though.

I never once said I was a fan of Reg, which is what confused me, as well as the fact I didn't he'd just ended a tour. I have to commend his late career success. Though some that I am a fan of died before I was born, or before their first album was recorded yet still reached the top 75 artists with most weeks on chart 50 years after their death. A few have had as much (maybe more) influence on music and the charts than Madonna with less than 2 albums: one or zero. Giving commercial breakthrough to entire new genres which persist to this day.

Wait until Madonna's tour is in the past. Until then it hasn't happened. Like Michael Jackson's 2009 Wembley residency and world tour - it was scheduled but didn't happen. I didn't expect Madonna to come so close to matching him when I said so before she announced the tour.

Like I say, I don't think she is healthy/fit enough to complete it. Could be wrong...but only time will tell.

What makes you think I don't consider Madonna a heritage act? She doesn't need to keep going to prove herself either, considering her achievements are set in stone and documented in history. She releases music because she enjoys working and creating art, whereas others just release music for stats and to remind the public who they are out of fear of being forgotten - especially acts like Steps who were mostly idolised by children, and the lowest common denominator.

Kylie fans bleat on about Madonna not having a million selling single, but ignore the fact Sire kept churning out her singles and deleting ones that had been on the charts a while, therefore never had a chance to get to 1 million.  She might not have had a million seller, but she has had at least ten 500,000+ sellers, which is something not many other artists can boast. Kylie certainly hasn't and Steps don't either.

Kylie's worldwide sales are around 80-90 million, Madonna's 400 million, so scoring a million selling single in one country matters not when looking at the bigger picture. Besides, Especially For You didn't reach 1 million sales until 25 years after release.

As for the best selling albums in the UK top 60, it's amusing how you've used Abba and Queen against Madonna in the past, yet both of those don't have a studio album in that list either, just Greatest Hits. The Immaculate Collection is at #13, so using the word "studio" to discredit Madge does nothing but make your look like a hypocrite in the process.

As for Elton, the fact you called him the Queen of Pop says it all, not to mention commending him for scoring success, which was largely due to riding the coat-tails of Dua and Ed is laughable considering that's something you've ridiculed Madonna for.

and who are the artists with more influence on music and the charts than Madonna with less than 2 albums, not just in the UK, but worldwide?  The only person I can think of is Michael Jackson.

Meanwhile, opening night is one week away, and Madonna is alive and well, and the tour is hghly likely going ahead since she's now in the UK rehearsing for up to 12 hours a day, which is something MJ wasn't incapable of considering he had been addicted to prescription drugs since 1995 leading up to his death. He was quite frankly a much bigger mess, so it's a stupid comparison - at least healthwise.

It's obvious you (like most Kylie fans) are bitter about this tour, so just say you're hoping she isn't fit enough to complete it and leave it at that.