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- Releasing 'It's No Secret' as the follow up to 'The Locomotion'...

After Kylie scored a huge top 3 hit in the US with 'The Locomotion' Kylie's managment surprisingly decided to release the lame 'It's no secret' as the follow up.
Instead of releasing 'Got to be certain', 'Hand on your heart', 'Especially for you' etc... and scoring hits with those,
Result: Kylie barely scraped the top 40 with 'It's no secret' and disappeared from the US music scene for 14 years!!!!

-Not releasing 'Better the devil you know' and 'Step back in time' or 'What do i have to do'.

Which would have at least been top 20 hits for her.... SAW were scoring hits back then with Rick Astley, Bananarama and Samantha Fox in the States... So Kylie had a chance of scoring big there too.

-Not releasing 'Confide in me' or 'Put yourself in my place'

Which were pop classics and could have returned her to the top 40 at least.

-Releasing 'Come into my world' as the follow up to 'Love at first sight'.

'Can't get you out of my head' was a huge hit for Kylie in the US reaching number 7, and 'Love at first sight' reached the top 30.
Instead of releasing the great 'In your eyes' or the funky 'Fever' or 'Boy', Kylie went for the album filler 'Come Into my world' as 3rd single ,which , despite winning a grammy,barely reached the Hot 100.

-Releasing 'Slow' as the first single from 'Body Language'.

'Body language' was all in all not a good idea as the follow up to the commercially succesful 'Fever'. and 'Slow' was a bad choice for the US. They obviously wanted another pop/dance album , instead all they got was an R&B wannabe album with tuneless songs sounding like they could've been sung by anyone. Novertheless, 'Slow' was a bad choice for the US. 'Cruise Control' (featuring Sean Paul) or rereleasing a track from Light Years would have been at least a better choice.

Result: the album flopped hard and denied Kylie the chance of a good follow-up after the surprisingle successful 'Fever' album...

-Releasing 'All i see' as the first single from 'X'

It might be an OK song but it surely doesn't have hit potential. Kylie choose the wrong song to promote in the US sounding like a leftover from an old Ashanti album with a 5 pound budget video shot with an iphone 1S.
Kylie didn't impress US audiences with that tune, she should've released a more authentic Kylie track such as 'In My Arms' which was the obvious lead single from X. 'Speakerphone' or 'Like a drug' or even un-released track 'Come Down' which don't sound like anything in the US scene right now and would've given her a bigger push.
Result: 'All i see' failed to make the Hot 100 and her album 'X' reached a sad number 139!!!!!

-Promoting 'Get outta my way' as the lead single from 'Aphrodite' instead of 'All the Lovers'

'All the Lovers' was obviously to be Kylie's biggest international hit since 'Can't get you out of my head', it went top 10 in many european countries, yet smart Parlophone decided to choose 90's retro-disco sounding 'Get outta my way' for her US campaign... the result: a no show on the BB Hot 100 and zero airplay....

-Not promoting 'TimeBomb' in the US Despite it being her biggest download success in the US ever

The 'TimeBomb' campaign started really well, with it being released to radio, itunes & TV at the same time, and the US seemed to catch up with the Kylie fever :'Timebomb' reached number 35 on iTunes US within 48 hours of its release,and the americans seemed to like the song, yet again, Kylie didn't do the effort of promoting in the US and decided to appear at D-rated TV programms such as the Fashion Police where she dissed Madonna in order to grab headlines...
Result: TimeBomb dropped in the itunes US charts like a rock and was immediatly forgotten...

Final Result: Her US managment should be fired!!!!! NOW!!!!!

This post has been edited by Dark Horse: 28th January 2018, 12:22 PM