Kylie Minogue has placed all of her recent albums at No. 1 on the British album chart, including the re-release of her Christmas album last week. However, the singles list had resisted him: not even ‘Padam Padam’ reached the first position, as it stayed at number 8, although it has ended up being certified with a Platinum Record.
This has changed this Friday with ‘XMAS’, their Amazon Music exclusive Christmas single, which has risen from number 14 to number 1 on the British singles chart. ‘XMAS’ is Minogue’s first No. 1 single on the islands in 22 years, which is all the time since ‘Slow’ achieved it in 2003.
‘XMAS’, today’s Song of the Day, Saturday, is the typical pop carol with a Spectorian sound: retro, but contemporary. Buoyed by a fast rhythmic foundation typical of 50s and 60s rock and decorated with keyboards, bells and rattles, ‘XMAS’ offers a tender declaration of companionship and love (“I want you to be by my side; even if it’s cold, we keep each other warm”), before its epic final crescendo.
Minogue breaks other records with ‘XMAS’. For example, she becomes the first female artist to achieve a number 1 single in the UK in four different decades: the 80s, the 90s, the 2000s and the 2020s. No, ‘All the Lovers’ (2010) never reached the first position, despite the privileged place it occupies on her tours. This is his history of number 1 singles in the United Kingdom:
1.- I Should Be So Lucky (1988)
2.- Especially For You (1988)
3.- Hand On Your Heart (1989)
4.- Tears On My Pillow (1990)
5.- Spinning Around (2000)
6.- Can’t Get You Out Of My Head (2001)
7.- Slow (2003)
8.- XMAS (2025)
Furthermore, ‘XMAS’ is Minogue’s first Christmas single, a milestone especially in the United Kingdom, where “Christmas Number 1” is an iconic event every year. Minogue had already participated in a Christmas number 1 in 1989 with ‘Do They Know It’s Christmas?’ by Band Aid, but he had never achieved it with his own single. ‘Especially For You’ stayed at No. 2, blocked by Cliff Richard’s ‘Mistletoe and Wine’, and reached No. 1 in January 1989, after Christmas.
Remember here the list of 50 best songs by Kylie Minogue for JENESAISPOP. ‘Slow’, one of Minogue’s most experimental productions, was at number 2.
