48k is fantastic! :D

Should be over 50k with today's sales added

Golden is her 26th chart album since she made her debut in July 1988 and she is the only female solo star ever to have number one albums in four different decades – scoring in the 1980s with Kylie: The Album (1988) and Enjoy Yourself (1989), in the 1990s with Greatest Hits (1992), in the 2000s with Fever (2001) and in the 2010s with Aphrodite (2010) and Golden. Her span of No.1 albums, at just short of 30 years, is the second longest for a female soloist, trailing only Barbra Streisand, who scored the last of her seven number ones in 2016, 39 years after her first.

 

Thats damn impressive.

I hope for 15K in the second week!

The album is still #4 on iTunes

 

#6 and #12 on Amazon.co.uk

Very proud of her.

From Music Week:

 

'The opening week is a real statement': Kylie Minogue hits No.1 with BMG

By Andre Paine | April 13th 2018 at 6:00PM

 

Kylie Minogue’s new album with BMG has become her first No. 1 in eight years.

 

The singer’s 14th studio album, Golden, had first-week sales of 48,000, according to the Official Charts Company. The country-influenced record was powered to the summit by physical sales, which accounted for 77% of its total.

 

Golden is Minogue’s first album with BMG after almost two decades with Parlophone.

 

It’s a strong start for the company’s new UK boss, Alistair Norbury, president, repertoire & marketing. The album lifted BMG to second place in the record company rankings this week with a 15.05% market share of Top 75 artist albums.

 

“We are so thrilled to have been part of the wonderful journey to achieve a sixth UK No.1 album for Kylie,” said Norbury. “The success of this campaign has been due to the perfect combination of an artist at the top of her game, an outstanding album and a perfectly executed marketing campaign. The opening week is a real statement and sets the tone for the next 18 months. BMG is honoured to have partnered with Kylie on Golden and everybody involved has played their part in achieving a No.1.”

 

BMG is honoured to have partnered with Kylie on Golden and everybody involved has played their part in achieving a No.1

 

Alistair Norbury

 

“Thank you to everybody who has been involved in getting Golden to No.1,” added Minogue. “I am so overwhelmed, happy, proud, emotional and very, very thankful and grateful.”

 

The album campaign also helped lead single Dancing to finally crack the Top 40 this week in its sixth week on the chart. Minogue’s 51st Top 40 hit has OCC sales to date of 64,609, while follow-up single Stop Me From Falling debuts at No.78.

 

Golden is the No.1 vinyl album, with 6,400 sales making it the fastest-selling vinyl album of 2018 so far. And it is the biggest-selling release on cassette so far this year.

 

Golden is Minogue’s sixth chart-topping album in a 30-year run that started with 1988’s debut, Kylie. Her 2014 LP, Kiss Me Once, peaked at No.2 and has OCC sales to date of 86,817.

 

BMG is building on its first decade in business with some major signings. It has a big rock release coming up with A Perfect Circle’s comeback on April 20, and the company had its first singles chart No.1 last week with Freaky Friday by Lil Dicky and Chris Brown.

 

George Ezra, who has the fastest-selling album of 2018 so far, is signed to BMG for publishing.

New boss is really behind her which is great,

 

Number 2 in 🇮🇪 her best peak since fever,really happy with the position here.

 

Really pleased at how well this album has done! :wub: What a step up from Kiss Me Once! Likely to go Silver next week with Gold easily in reach.

 

This is the full paragraph from this week's Music Week sales analysis:

 

In the week it finally spawns a Top 40 single, Kylie Minogue’s 14th studio album, Golden, is the diminutive Australian’s sixth No.1, debuting in pole position on sales of 48,032 copies (including 1,870 from sales-equivalent streams).

 

Although it isn’t too long since we had a No.1 album by a female solo artist (Paloma Faith last November), an Australian act (5 Seconds Of Summer in October 2015) or even an older solo chart-topper than Kylie, who turns 50 next month (52-year-old Shania Twain last October) you have to admire her tenacity.

 

Golden is her 26th chart album since she made her debut in July 1988 and she is the only female solo star ever to have number one albums in four different decades – scoring in the 1980s with Kylie: The Album (1988) and Enjoy Yourself (1989), in the 1990s with Greatest Hits (1992), in the 2000s with Fever (2001) and in the 2010s with Aphrodite (2010) and Golden. Her span of No.1 albums, at just short of 30 years, is the second longest for a female soloist, trailing only Barbra Streisand, who scored the last of her seven number ones in 2016, 39 years after her first.

 

Largely recorded in Nashville, with Minogue co-writing every track, Golden’s first week sales were her best since Aphrodite sold 79,152 on debut in 2010 and more than the first frame tallies of her last three albums combined. Dancing – the first single from Golden – debuted 11 weeks ago at No.47, and finally becomes Minogue’s 51st Top 40 hit, re-entering the chart at No.38 with 8,267 sales, of which 1,617 were for its newly-released 7-inch picture vinyl edition. Second single, Stop Me From Falling, has been available for five weeks, and was performed by Minogue on the first of the new season of The Graham Norton Show on BBC1 (6 April). It enters the Top 100 for the first time this week (No.78, 5,045 sales). Dancing debuts atop the vinyl singles chart, while Golden sold 6,398 copies on 12-inch to top the vinyl albums chart.

Thanks a lot for all this info Liam, its cool we now know KMO sales to date and they are terrible.

Hard to believe she has 26 albums, and i can happily say i have all of them in my collection.

So happy for her achieving this success! :wub: Loving the album so much!

 

Good to know the sales for Kiss Me Once too; a pity it's not particularly close to Gold.

Hopefully Kiss Me Once can eventually reach 100,000.

 

I hope Golden can now have at least a decent chart run now ad build up some sales.

I'm so f***ing proud to be a fan right now. It's been a while since I could say that and mean it.

she is the only female solo star ever to have number one albums in four different decades

 

I am pretty sure that Madonna has achieved the same feat...

Debuts 1 in Australia, 3 in Germany, 8 in France

I think it's pretty safe for a second week in the top-5! She's still at 6 in Apple Music, 2 (excluding compilations) in iTunes, #4 (excluding compilations) in Amazon. Ezra should do another 15-20k this week, Manics how many? Doubt that more than 20k. So she even has a chance of falling only to #2 which would be amazing, given last week there was a discussion of her falling out of the top-10 straight away.

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I am pretty sure that Madonna has achieved the same feat...

She has, but Kylie achieved it first.

I think they just worded it badly in the report, but they're often prone to errors like that.

So... what's next after we achieved a #1? Any other singles/videos and more tour announcements? What about remixes?

Chart info for Australia:

 

The fourteenth studio album for Kylie Minogue titled "Golden" becomes her fifth No.1 on the ARIA Albums Charts, plus the set also took out the top spot in England (her 6th there) and Scotland as well.

 

"Golden" becomes the 818th No.1 album in Australia (1965 to 2018), the 669th for ARIA (1983 to 2018) and the 461st to debut in the top spot, plus the third new No.1 album for the year and the eleventh chart-topping set for the Liberation record label, whose last No.1 set was six weeks ago for Vance Joy and "Nation of Two" (#817th No.1 album).

 

Kylie first hit the top here with her "Light Years set for one week in October of 2000, following it up exactly one year later with "Fever" (5 wks from 15-Oct, 2001), with her tenth set "X" logging a solo stay in early December of 2007, while her last chart-topper here was with "Kiss Me Once" (24th March, 2014 for one week), taking her tally to now five No.1 albums, placing her equal 17th on the list for 'Most No.1 Albums' alongside other five #1 achievers as Neil Diamond, Celine Dion, Michael Buble, AC/DC, Silverchair, Powerfinger and Crowded House amongst them. She is also now equal 73rd on the list for 'Accumulated Weeks at No.1; 1965 to 2018', as she has now racked up nine overall weeks at the top here from her five No.1's, sitting alongside Pearl Jam (8 #1's), Powderfinger (5 #1's also), One Direction (4 #1's), Avril Lavigne (3 #1's) and Lionel Richie (2 #1's).

 

As this is Kylie's second No.1 album for this decade she joins the list for 'Accumulated Weeks at No.1: 2010's; Albums" with other two-weeks-from-two-No.1's like Madonna, 5SOS, Boy & Bear, RuFuS, Sia, Flume, Jimmy Barnes, Temper Trap, Barbra Streisand, Nick Cave, The Weeknd, Lorde, QOTSA, Anthony Callea and Vance Joy. This is the third album with 'Golden' as or in its title to hit the top here, the first being "20 Golden Greats" for Creedence Clearwater Revival (2 wks from 4th of Feb, 1980) and the most recent was by Powderfinger and "Golden Rule" (1 wk, 23rd November, 2009). "Golden" is now the 220th No.1 album by an Australian artist, and the 124th for a Female singer, and the first since Taylor Swift's "Reputation" (20th Nov, 2017), while Kylie is now equal first on the list for 'Australian Female Singers with the most No.1 Albums' alongside Olivia Newton-John and Kasey Chambers who have both had five No.1 albums apiece (Kasey has a new album coming out soon so she might surpass them both).

 

As for the UK, Golden debuts at #18 on the Year to Date Albums.