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Kylie is the debut album
Album

An album or record album is a collection of related Sound recording and reproduction or music tracks distributed to the public. The most common way is through commercial distribution, although smaller artists will often distribute directly to the public by selling their albums at live concerts or on their websites....
 by Australian pop
Pop music

Pop music is a music genre that features a noticeable rhythmic element, melodies and hook , a mainstream style and a conventional structure.The term "pop music" was first used in 1926 in the sense of "having popular appeal" , but since the 1950s it has been used in the sense of a musical genre, originally characterized as a lighter alternat...
 singer Kylie Minogue
Kylie Minogue

Kylie Ann Minogue, Order of the British Empire, , is an Australian pop singer-songwriter and occasional actress. She rose to prominence in the late 1980s through her role in the Australian television soap opera Neighbours, before commencing her career as a recording artist in 1987....
. It was released by PWL
PWL

Pete Waterman Entertainment is the production company one-time pop music and dance record label owned by pop mogul Pete Waterman. The label, originally PWL, is most famous for being the home of hit record producers Stock Aitken Waterman....
 on July 4, 1988, and received mixed reviews. Chris True of Allmusic describes the album's songs as "dated at best", but writes that Minogue's "cuteness makes these rather vapid tracks bearable". Kylie was a number one album in the United Kingdom, and it produced three number one singles in Australia.






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Kylie is the debut album
Album

An album or record album is a collection of related Sound recording and reproduction or music tracks distributed to the public. The most common way is through commercial distribution, although smaller artists will often distribute directly to the public by selling their albums at live concerts or on their websites....
 by Australian pop
Pop music

Pop music is a music genre that features a noticeable rhythmic element, melodies and hook , a mainstream style and a conventional structure.The term "pop music" was first used in 1926 in the sense of "having popular appeal" , but since the 1950s it has been used in the sense of a musical genre, originally characterized as a lighter alternat...
 singer Kylie Minogue
Kylie Minogue

Kylie Ann Minogue, Order of the British Empire, , is an Australian pop singer-songwriter and occasional actress. She rose to prominence in the late 1980s through her role in the Australian television soap opera Neighbours, before commencing her career as a recording artist in 1987....
. It was released by PWL
PWL

Pete Waterman Entertainment is the production company one-time pop music and dance record label owned by pop mogul Pete Waterman. The label, originally PWL, is most famous for being the home of hit record producers Stock Aitken Waterman....
 on July 4, 1988, and received mixed reviews. Chris True of Allmusic describes the album's songs as "dated at best", but writes that Minogue's "cuteness makes these rather vapid tracks bearable". Kylie was a number one album in the United Kingdom, and it produced three number one singles in Australia. In North America the album peaked low on the Billboard charts
Billboard charts

The Billboard charts are music sales, airplay and digital ranking reports distributed to the general public by Billboard magazine. Billboard is considered the foremost authority worldwide in these song sales, airplay, digital reports, or Record chart....
, yet still impressively managed to sell over 500,000 copies and was certified gold. Later on the Album continued selling strong and Reached Platinum Status.

In Australia, the album was re-issued as The Kylie Collection
The Kylie Collection

The Kylie Collection is the first compilation album by Australian Pop music singer Kylie Minogue. It was released by Mushroom Records in 1988 in Australia and New Zealand....
 and featured bonus remix
Remix

A remix is an alternative version of a song, different from the original version. A remixer uses Audio mixing to compose an alternate master recording of a song, adding or subtracting elements, or simply changing the equalization, dynamics, Pitch , tempo, playing time, or almost any other aspect of th...
es. In January 1989, Kylie was certified six times platinum
Music recording sales certification

Music recording sales certification is a system of certifying that a music Sound recording has shipped a certain number of copies.Almost all countries follow variations of the RIAA certification categories, which are named after the precious materials gold, platinum and diamond ....
 in the UK, and has sold over 14 million copies worldwide.

Background and recording

In 1987, during a Fitzroy Football Club
Fitzroy Football Club

Fitzroy Football Club, most recently nicknamed The Lions, is an Australian rules football club formed in 1883 to represent the inner city Melbourne suburb of Fitzroy, Victoria and was a foundation member club of the Australian Football League on its inception in 1897 in sports....
 benefit concert
Benefit concert

A benefit concert is a concert, show or gala featuring musicians, comedians, or other performers that is held for a charitable organization purpose, often directed at a specific and immediate humanitarian crisis....
 the other cast member of Neighbours
Neighbours

Neighbours is a long-running multiple Logie Award-winning Australian soap opera, which first aired in March 1985. The series follows the daily lives of several families who live in the six houses at the end of Ramsay Street, a short cul-de-sac in the fictional middle-class suburb of Erinsborough....
 put on their own talent stage show. Minogue had not prepared anything so she got up on stage and performed a cover version
Cover version

In popular music, a cover version, or simply cover, is a new rendition of a previously recorded, commercially released song.In its current use, it can sometimes have a pejorative meaning — implying that the original recording should be regarded as the definitive version, usually in the sense of an "authentic" rendition, and all...
 of "The Loco-Motion
The Loco-Motion

"The Loco-Motion" is a 1962 pop music written by United States songwriters Gerry Goffin and Carole King. The song is notable for making the American Top 5 three times – each time in a different decade: for Little Eva in 1962 ; for Grand Funk Railroad in 1974 ; and for Kylie Minogue in 1988 ....
" and was signed to a recording contract with Mushroom Records
Mushroom Records

Mushroom Records is an Australian record company formed by Michael Gudinski and Ray Evans in 1972. After its sale in 1998, it merged into Festival Mushroom Records....
. The song was released as a single in Australia, and became the highest selling single of the 1980s. Its success resulted in Minogue travelling to London
London

London is the capital of both England and the United Kingdom, and the most populous municipality in the European Union. An important settlement for two millennia, History of London goes back to its founding by the Roman Empire....
 with Mushroom Records executive Gary Ashley to work with Stock, Aitken and Waterman
Stock Aitken Waterman

Stock Aitken Waterman, sometimes known as SAW, were a United Kingdom songwriter and record producer trio who had great success during the mid-late 1980s and early 1990s with many of their productions....
. They knew little of Minogue and had forgotten that she was arriving; as a result, they wrote "I Should Be So Lucky
I Should Be So Lucky

"I Should Be So Lucky" is a Pop music–Dance music song performed by Australian singer Kylie Minogue. The song was written and produced by Stock Aitken Waterman for Minogue's debut album Kylie ....
" while she waited outside the studio. Minogue recorded the song in less than an hour, and returned home to Australia to work on Neighbours. The song became a chart success, and Mike Stock
Mike Stock

Mike Stock is a English people songwriter and record producer best known for being a member of the songwriting and record production trio Stock Aitken Waterman....
 travelled to Melbourne
Melbourne

Melbourne is the more common name for the geographic region and Census in Australia of the Greater Melbourne metropolitan area. It is the second List of cities in Australia by population in Australia, with a population of approximately 3.8 million and serves as the List of Australian capital cities of Victoria ....
 to apologize to Minogue for forgetting about her previous recording session. Stock successfully convinced Minogue to return to London in the beginning of 1988 to record songs for her debut album.

Chart performance and sales

Kylie debuted on the UK albums chart
UK Albums Chart

The UK Albums Chart is a list of albums ranked by physical and digital sales in the United Kingdom. It is compiled by The Official UK Charts Company and published in Music Week magazine and on the OCC website ; the full Top 200 is published exclusively in ChartsPlus....
 at number two, and reached number one the following week. The album remained at number one for eight weeks, and was certified six times platinum on 5 January 1989. It sold 1.8 million copies in 1988 and became the year's best selling album. In Australia, the album reached number two, and was certified double platinum on release.

The album reached the top ten in Germany, Norway
Norway

Norway , officially the Kingdom of Norway, is a constitutional monarchy in Northern Europe that occupies the western portion of the Scandinavian Peninsula....
, and Switzerland
Switzerland

Switzerland is a landlocked Swiss Alps country of roughly 7.7 million people in Western Europe with an area of 41,285 km?. Switzerland is a federal republic consisting of 26 states called Cantons of Switzerland....
, and sold 143,627 in Sweden. Kylie reached number fifty-three on the Billboard 200 albums chart
Billboard 200

The Billboard 200 is a ranking of the 200 highest-selling Albums and extended play in the United States, published weekly by Billboard magazine....
 in the United States. In 1989, the album was certified gold in the U.S. and platinum in Canada.

Singles

"Locomotion", Minogue's first single
Single (music)

In the record industry, a single is a song usually used from a current or upcoming album to promote the album. Singles are distributed through a number of ways; originally, they were packaged as "single" records with one or two other songs and sold before the release of the album....
 release, spent seven weeks at number one on the Australian singles chart
ARIA Charts

File:ARIA Charts Logo.pngThe ARIA charts are the main Australia record charts, issued weekly by the Australian Recording Industry Association. The charts are a record of the highest selling single and albums in various genres in Australia....
, and was the highest selling single in the country for the 1980s. The second single "I Should Be So Lucky
I Should Be So Lucky

"I Should Be So Lucky" is a Pop music–Dance music song performed by Australian singer Kylie Minogue. The song was written and produced by Stock Aitken Waterman for Minogue's debut album Kylie ....
" featured lyrics
Lyrics

Lyrics are a set of words that make up a song, either by speaking or singing. The word 'lyric' comes from the Greek word ,lyricos, meaning "singing to the lyre"....
 written by Mike Stock
Mike Stock

Mike Stock is a English people songwriter and record producer best known for being a member of the songwriting and record production trio Stock Aitken Waterman....
. Stock believed that although Minogue was a successful soap star in Australia and very talented, there must be something wrong with her and figured that she must be unlucky in love. It became a number one hit for Minogue in Australia and the United Kingdom. "Got to Be Certain
Got to Be Certain

"Got to Be Certain" is a Pop music song written by United Kingdom songwriting team Stock Aitken Waterman for Kylie Minogue's debut studio album Kylie ....
", the third single, reached number one in Australia, and was moderately successful in other parts of the world, reaching number two in the UK and the top ten in Germany and Switzerland
Switzerland

Switzerland is a landlocked Swiss Alps country of roughly 7.7 million people in Western Europe with an area of 41,285 km?. Switzerland is a federal republic consisting of 26 states called Cantons of Switzerland....
.

Minogue re-recorded "Locomotion" in April 1988, retitling the song "The Loco-Motion
The Loco-Motion (Kylie Minogue song)

"The Loco-Motion" is the debut single by Australian singer-songwriter Kylie Minogue and was released on July 28, 1987 by PWL and Mushroom Records....
". It was released as the album's fourth single and became the highest entry of the UK singles chart
UK Singles Chart

The UK Singles Chart is compiled by The Official UK Charts Company on behalf of the British record industry. The chart week runs from Sunday to Saturday, with the chart being printed in Music Week magazine , ChartsPlus , and published online on various sites ....
 by a female artist. In North America, it reached number one in Canada and number three on the Billboard Hot 100
Billboard Hot 100

The Billboard Hot 100 is the United States music industry standard Single popularity chart issued weekly by Billboard magazine. Chart rankings are based on airplay and sales; the tracking-week for sales begins on Monday and ends on Sunday; while the airplay tracking-week runs from Wednesday to Tuesday....
. "Je Ne Sais Pas Pourquoi
Je Ne Sais Pas Pourquoi

"Je Ne Sais Pas Pourquoi" is a pop music song written by United Kingdom production team Stock Aitken Waterman for Kylie Minogue's debut album Kylie ....
", the fifth single, reached number two in the UK. "It's No Secret
It's No Secret

"It's No Secret" is an Pop music-ballad song written by England songwriting team Stock Aitken Waterman for Australian singer Kylie Minogue's debut studio album Kylie ....
" was exclusively released as a single in North America, while "Turn It into Love
Turn It into Love

"Turn It into Love" is a single released from singer Kylie Minogue's debut album Kylie . The single was released in December 1988 as the album's sixth single and was written by Stock Aitken Waterman....
" was released in Japan. The Australian version of "Locomotion" is often aired on VH-1 Europe, so in the 1990s and 2000s it became more popular than the UK/Europe SAW version, released there.

Track listing

All tracks written and composed by Stock, Aitken and Waterman, except where noted.

  1. "I Should Be So Lucky
    I Should Be So Lucky

    "I Should Be So Lucky" is a Pop music–Dance music song performed by Australian singer Kylie Minogue. The song was written and produced by Stock Aitken Waterman for Minogue's debut album Kylie ....
    " – 3:24
  2. "The Loco-Motion
    The Loco-Motion (Kylie Minogue song)

    "The Loco-Motion" is the debut single by Australian singer-songwriter Kylie Minogue and was released on July 28, 1987 by PWL and Mushroom Records....
    " – 3:14 (Gerry Goffin
    Gerry Goffin

    Gerry Goffin is an United States lyricist. He was inducted into the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame in 1990 with former songwriter partner and first wife, Carole King....
     and Carole King
    Carole King

    Carole King is an United States singer, songwriter, and pianist. She was most active as a singer during the first half of the 1970s, though she was a successful songwriter for considerably longer both before and after this period....
    )
  3. "Je Ne Sais Pas Pourquoi
    Je Ne Sais Pas Pourquoi

    "Je Ne Sais Pas Pourquoi" is a pop music song written by United Kingdom production team Stock Aitken Waterman for Kylie Minogue's debut album Kylie ....
    " – 4:01
  4. "It's No Secret
    It's No Secret

    "It's No Secret" is an Pop music-ballad song written by England songwriting team Stock Aitken Waterman for Australian singer Kylie Minogue's debut studio album Kylie ....
    " – 3:58
  5. "Got to Be Certain
    Got to Be Certain

    "Got to Be Certain" is a Pop music song written by United Kingdom songwriting team Stock Aitken Waterman for Kylie Minogue's debut studio album Kylie ....
    " – 3:19
  6. "Turn It into Love
    Turn It into Love

    "Turn It into Love" is a single released from singer Kylie Minogue's debut album Kylie . The single was released in December 1988 as the album's sixth single and was written by Stock Aitken Waterman....
    " – 3:37
  7. "I Miss You" – 3:15
  8. "I'll Still Be Loving You" – 3:50
  9. "Look My Way" – 3:36
  10. "Love at First Sight" – 3:08 (not the same song as the one that appears on the 2001 album Fever
    Fever (album)

    Fever is the eighth album by Australian singer Kylie Minogue, released in late 2001 in Europe and Australia, 2002 in North America by Parlophone, Mushroom Records and Capitol Records....
     - the two songs only share the same title)


Personnel

The following people contributed to Kylie:
  • Kylie Minogue - lead vocals
    Singing

    Singing is the act of producing musical sounds with the human voice, which is often contrasted with regular speech. A person who sings is called a singer or vocalist....
    , backing vocals
  • Dee Lewis, Mae McKenna, Suzanne Rhatigan
    Suzanne Rhatigan

    Suzanne Rhatigan, is an Ireland singer songwriter born in Dublin. She moved to London in the early 1980s and found work as a session singer for Stock, Aitken and Waterman Records, before embarking ona solo career, recording her debut album with Fred Maher in 1992, To Hell With Love, which was released the following year....
     - backing vocals
  • Matt Aitken
    Matt Aitken

    Matt Aitken , is a British songwriter and record producer, brought up in Astley, Greater Manchester, best known as the creative force behind the 1980s songwriting/production trio Stock Aitken Waterman....
     - keyboards
    Musical keyboard

    A musical keyboard is the set of adjacent depressible levers or keys on a musical instrument, particularly the piano. Keyboards typically contain keys for playing the twelve notes of the Western musical scale, with a combination of larger, longer keys and smaller, shorter keys that repeats at the interval of an octave....
    , guitar
    Guitar

    The guitar is a musical instrument with ancient roots that is used in a wide variety of musical styles. It typically has six Strings , but Tenor guitar, Seven-string guitar, Eight-string guitar, Ten-string guitar, Eleven-string guitar, Twelve-string guitar, Thirteen-string guitar and doubleneck guitar string guitars also exist....
    , production
    Record producer

    In the music industry, a record producer has many roles, among them controlling the recording sessions, coaching and guiding the musicians, organizing and scheduling production budget and resources, and supervising the recording, Audio mixing and audio mastering processes....
    , arrangements
  • Mike Stock
    Mike Stock

    Mike Stock is a English people songwriter and record producer best known for being a member of the songwriting and record production trio Stock Aitken Waterman....
     - backing vocals, keyboards, production, arrangements
  • Pete Waterman
    Pete Waterman

    Peter Alan Waterman OBE is an England record producer, occasional songwriter, radio and club DJ, television presenter, president of Coventry Bears rugby league club and a keen railway enthusiast....
     - production, arrangements
  • George DeAngelis, Neil Palmer - keyboards
  • A. Linn - drums
    Drum kit

    A drum kit is a collection of drums, cymbals and sometimes other percussion instruments, such as cowbell s, wood blocks, triangles, chimes, or tambourines, arranged for convenient playing by a single drummer....
  • Jason Barron, Peter Day, Stewart Day, Karen Hewitt, Jonathan King, Mark McGuire, Yoyo - engineering
    Audio engineering

    Audio engineering is a part of audio science dealing with the recording and reproduction of sound through mechanical and electronic means. The field draws on many disciplines, including electrical engineering, acoustics, psychoacoustics, and music....
  • Peter Hammond - mixing
    Audio mixing (recorded music)

    Audio mixing is the process by which a multitude of recorded sounds are combined into one or more channels, most commonly two-channel stereo. In the process, the source signals' level, frequency content, dynamics and panoramic position are commonly being manipulated and effects such as reverb might be added....
  • Jay Willis - mastering
    Audio mastering

    Mastering, a form of audio post-production, is the process of preparing and transferring recorded audio from a source containing the final mix to a data storage device ; the source from which all copies will be produced ....
  • Lawrence Lawry - photography
    Photography

    Photography is the process, activity and art of creating still or moving by recording radiation on a sensitive medium, such as a photographic film, or an ....
  • David Howells - design
    Design

    Design is used both as a noun and a verb. The term is often tied to the various applied arts and engineering . As a verb, "to design" refers to the process of originating and planning for a product, structure, system, or component with intention....
  • Lino Carbosiero -hair
    Hair

    Hair is a protein filament that epidermal growth from hair follicle deep within the dermis. The fine, soft hair found on many nonhuman mammals is typically called fur; wool is the characteristically curly hair found on sheep and goats....
    ]


Formats

These are the formats of major album releases of Kylie.

Release format Country Cat. no. Label
Australian vinyl album Australia TVL-93277 Mushroom Records
Mushroom Records

Mushroom Records is an Australian record company formed by Michael Gudinski and Ray Evans in 1972. After its sale in 1998, it merged into Festival Mushroom Records....
UK CD album United Kingdom HFCD3 PWL
PWL

Pete Waterman Entertainment is the production company one-time pop music and dance record label owned by pop mogul Pete Waterman. The label, originally PWL, is most famous for being the home of hit record producers Stock Aitken Waterman....
U.S. edition United States GHS24195 Geffen Records
Geffen Records

Geffen Records is an American record label, owned by Universal Music Group, and operated as one third of UMG's Interscope-Geffen-A&M label group....
Japanese edition Japan 32XB-280 Alfa Records
Japanese vinyl album Japan ALI-28109 Alfa Records
Korean vinyl album Korea
Korea

Korea is a geographic area composed of two sovereign countries, a civilization, and a former state situated on the Korean Peninsula in East Asia....
 SWPR-001 PWL


Sales Certifications


CountryProvider(s)CertificationSales/Shipments
AustraliaARIA6xPlatinum420,000
USARIAAGold500,000
UKBPIAustralian Albums Chart
ARIA Charts

File:ARIA Charts Logo.pngThe ARIA charts are the main Australia record charts, issued weekly by the Australian Recording Industry Association. The charts are a record of the highest selling single and albums in various genres in Australia....
 2
Japan Albums Chart 1
German Albums Chart
Media Control Charts

The official Music Charts in Germany are gathered and published by the company Media Control GfK International on behalf of Bundesverband der phonographischen Wirtschaft ....
 8
France Albums Chart 10
New Zealand Albums Chart 1
Swiss Albums Chart 7
UK Albums Chart
UK Albums Chart

The UK Albums Chart is a list of albums ranked by physical and digital sales in the United Kingdom. It is compiled by The Official UK Charts Company and published in Music Week magazine and on the OCC website ; the full Top 200 is published exclusively in ChartsPlus....
 1
U.S. Billboard 200
Billboard 200

The Billboard 200 is a ranking of the 200 highest-selling Albums and extended play in the United States, published weekly by Billboard magazine....
 53


See also

  • Kylie: The Videos
    Kylie: The Videos

    Kylie: The Videos is a VHS release by Australian Pop music singer Kylie Minogue. The music video collection was released in November 1988 in the United Kingdom and Japan....
     – a VHS
    VHS

    The Video Home System, better known by its abbreviation VHS, is a recording and playing standard developed by JVC and launched in Europe and Asia in September 1976, and the United States in June 1977....
     release featuring music videos to promote the album's single releases.


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