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KYLIE MINOGUE - DISCO
SHE IS A DISCO ICON AND POP PRINCESS WITH A CAREER SPANNING 30+ YEARS.
Kylie Minogue has achieved seven UK #1 singles plus a further twenty-four Top 10 hits. Seven of her albums have also topped the charts, including her most recent studio album, 2018’s ‘Golden’, and last year’s ‘Step Back In Time: The Definitive Collection’. She has sold 80 million albums worldwide but has also been sufficiently embraced by the streaming generation to command over 6 million monthly listeners at Spotify. And that’s before you consider the impact of three BRIT Awards, a Grammy and two MTV Europe Awards. Kylie has continued to command the spotlight. In her 2019 appearance at Glastonbury, she pulled out all the stops: a set of some of pop’s most enduring classics, striking costume changes, a cannon of confetti, and special guest appearances by Chris Martin and Nick Cave. There were also
tears, as Kylie finally returned to the stage that she was due to headline back in 2005 before she was diagnosed with breast cancer. And the reaction was something else. It became the BBC’s most watched set in the festival’s history, with the NME describing it as “a surreal pop spectacle” and an “all-out celebration”. Now Kylie continues to deliver the feel-good hits with her fifteenth studio album ‘DISCO’, transports us away from the mundanity of daily life to somewhere altogether more thrilling.‘DISCO’ features the recent singles ‘Say Something’ and ‘Magic’, and was largely recorded in lockdown with each team member recording and working from a separate location, leading to Kylie having a vocal engineering credit on all but two of the sixteen tracks on the record. Stream the album at https://kylie.lnk.to/DISCOPR. METROSOURCE.COM
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