Quietly excited...

Would a summer release similar to Aphrodite be the likely outcome here?

I reckon she should stick with her usual November timeline to get more sales in Christmas.

Ideally, I'd want a lead single in time for the summer, then a second single getting a push at the same time of the album release in October time. Kylie always gets good winter promo slots but I wouldn't want her to risk release too close to the Christmas market in case the album gets lost in the charts, so October seems a good compromise to get a good peak and hopefully decent sales in the run up to Christmas, where she is bound to get a Strictly and/or X Factor slot as well as a performance on a chat show etc.

Very valid points, looking at sales October is better for her although on a lower position. A summer release would increase her chances of number of 1.

 

Ideally, Kylie would release in Summer and get a number 1 album. October should see a full on re-release with heavy promotion, its an approach that could work if she has strong enough material to promote. Both Kylie and the record company need to concentrate on promoting the album and investing in the album to push it. Rick Astley is a fine example of how you can have a hit album (exceeding all expectations) if handled properly.

 

Kylie is in a stronger position than Rick Astley and could easily achieve a platinum album if the campaign is handled correctly. That said, i cant see the album doing any more than 100,000 and outside the lead single the rest of the campaign will be a total mess.

No no NO to the re-release bullshit. Waste of time and effort. Why save songs and promotion till after all hype has gone?

Very valid points, looking at sales October is better for her although on a lower position. A summer release would increase her chances of number of 1.

I think she'd be in for a chance of #1 even in October. The past couple of Octobers have seen some very low sales so Kylie would definitely have the Top 3 on lock. August would increase her chances even more, true, but it would lessen her chances of mustering up any sort of decent longevity, as chances are the album would have nose-dived by the time a performance slot on Strictly/X Factor arrived.

 

I'd quite like to see the usual consistent promo on album release week and then a biggy like Strictly or X Factor or whatever in week 2 or 3. Kylie has a strong enough fanbase to get a good first week position and sales but it's after that where the problem lies. That's also why I think it would be good to have the lead single somewhat distant from the album release, so that promo can be done for that song whilst the pre-orders tick up, then get on with promoting an "album-seller-friendly" second single at the time the album does get released.

 

I mean, no matter how thought out the campaign is, there's going to be a ceiling in terms of Kylie's possible success at this point, but I see no reason why she can't get a Gold selling album which is quite the feat for anyone these days.

No no NO to the re-release bullshit. Waste of time and effort. Why save songs and promotion till after all hype has gone?

 

 

If the right material is there it can work as we have seen so many times by other artists. If done correctly it adds further hype to the initial hype.

Never before has Kylie been able to deliver a halfway decent re-release. Nothing to suggest she ever will.

That is my point, she hasnt so its about time she learned.

She hasn't learned in 30 odd years so why waste time trying now?

No, but she has learned how to turn her career around on more than one occasion.

It was a lot easier to come back from that at the turn of the century though, plus she wasn't in as bad a position as she's in now and she's a lot older as well.

I would have thought she was in a worse position career wise before she signed to parlophone,the singles (wrongly so) flopped, Impossible Princess was a flop and she was seen by many seen as a has been. As bad as Kiss Me Once was, it sold better than Impossible Princess and she was still doing very well on her tours which was also not the case back in 1999.

 

That said, age, as sad as it is to say, is against her this time round.

I just don't see it, at this stage I'm fairly certain she'll never have a top 40 hit again.

I can see her getting a Top 40 hit quite easily, but achieving any further weeks there will be a struggle.

 

I know it was seen as disappointing at the time, but I'd be absolutely thrilled to see her manage a chart run like she did for 'Into the Blue' at this point in time.

A Timebomb-esque low top 40 hit is the very best she can hope for now as she just won't get the streams, sadly, but she could quite feasibly get an iTunes top 20 with a lead single.

 

I couldn't really care less about singles success for her now though, as anybody her age is practically a write-off in terms of single chart success due to the crappy ageism in the industry and the way streaming metrics work against anybody of a certain age even moreso now.

 

I just want a killer pop album that doesn't try to chase trends to get a hit, but stands tall on its own merits, which Kiss Me Once arguably struggled to do.

 

There's no reason she can't have a decent-sized album if the material is good and appealing to the people that are likely to buy it (coming out with a tropical house track isn't going to sell albums and it won't help her have a hit single again either).

I would like to believe Kylie can have a hit again, but to stand a slight chance of doing so she needs a strong song. Another banger like Cant Get You Out Of My Head would be ideal, but unlikely.

 

I do know age is a problem, and radio is ageist but Kylie;s biggest problem is the music. The singles are either not strong enough or the release strategy is an absolute disaster. For Kylie to have a hit she has a few issues to address that she has control of to fix.

She has been working with Lauren Aquilina today *.* Kylie is coming for an incredible ballad.

I have enjoyed several of Kylie;s ballads but it appears most fans do not enjoy them as much.