From the many who were not too kind to the album 25 years ago it would great to see if any of those who publicly reviewed the album have changed their opinions on any of the songs.

With the exception of Australia it was a commercial disaster everywhere and generally everyone wrote Kylie off, although as bad as things were then she was lucky in some aspects that the press didnt go really hard on her like they have notoriously done especially back then when an artist of Kylies caliber started to hit the skids career wise. From what i remember the press focused alot on her working with Nick Cave as it truly was a surprise partnership to everyone so that took away some of the stories about the album tanking.

 

I think the fact that she had signed with deconstruction rather than a big label and tried something new, helped her when IP failed commercially. She had the Australian success at least and of course Intimate and Live also did well and it’s where she started to integrate the Showgirl persona. It meant the bigger labels could re market her and once Kylie signed with Parlophone their aim was a move back to dance and disco.

 

 

 

The move to parlophobe was so right for her at the time and they knew exactly what was needed and so believed in her. Decon was pretty much struggling financially from all kylies time with them and they in many ways were lost on how to market Kylie.

Edited November 3, 20222 yr by Feel_The_Fever

The move to parlophobe was so right for her at the time and they knew exactly what was needed and so believed in her. Decon was pretty much struggling financially from all kylies time with them and they in many ways were lost on how to market Kylie.

 

Yes, the initial intentions were good with ‘dance label’ deconstruction and it all started very well with CIM and PYIMP but then came the WITF debacle….7 months of nothing then using a spoken vocal as the video edit and a different edit for the live performances. After that IP was launched with a radically different acoustic/ rock lead single, once that didn’t connect and the general flapping about and delays, it was so confusingly marketed it totally underperformed.

Where is the feeling was the start of it all going wrong. I've never fully understand the logic behind the single, things were on a downward spiral and the album hadn't sold as well as they hoped which automatically put IP in a bad position. I understand why some kind of bliss was the lead single and as much as I love tge public had lost interest in kylie and were confused by her style. However the decon era was the making of Kylie and that's not to downplay pwl either as that was also very important but in a different way. Generally I think kylie worked with the right labels at the right time with BMG now another good example.

Number 143 today with a respectable 1,130 copies sold.

Oh it fell quite short of the Top 100 in the end, but at least it stayed in the Top 200. Its 10th week in the Top 200! 7,514 copies sold overall in these two chart weeks. I guess that's a bit over 10% of its overall total!

Top 100 would have been nice but those sales are good for this week, and its great to see another 1,130 in the bag.

At least we're well over 70k now. It'll never go Gold, but at least its sales are looking ever slightly less horrible.

Nice numbers and be interesting to see how many picture discs will be counted end of November.

At least we're well over 70k now. It'll never go Gold, but at least its sales are looking ever slightly less horrible.

Ya I was thinking the same, hopefully the picture discs can help add another 1k.

At least we're well over 70k now. It'll never go Gold, but at least its sales are looking ever slightly less horrible.

 

Even before the release of vinyl, the album is good to be certified silver, I wonder why it hasn't happened yet.

 

Also, #11 in Australia this week!

Nice numbers and be interesting to see how many picture discs will be counted end of November.

 

I think most have been counted? The fact it shifted 1k this week and lots of people received picture discs that they were not expecting until the end of November indicates they might have received a batch earlier than expected and sent them out?

https://music.kylie.com/splash/7702

 

25 signed copies being given away

Mine keep saying you took a wrong turn when I enter my email, anyone else getting the same?

Mine keep saying you took a wrong turn when I enter my email, anyone else getting the same?

 

No, I’ve entered with several email addresses and all gone through ok?

To have IP chart at number 5 in the UK is like some parallel universe. My favourite album of all time finally vindicated.

Even before the release of vinyl, the album is good to be certified silver, I wonder why it hasn't happened yet.

 

It's odd, because you'd imagine it would've been included in the 2013 mass update when BPI went into automatic certifications (even Hits+ got included in that one) - could be an issue of the whole Kylie Minogue / Impossible Princess name change? Maybe there's some database thing where KM'94 and KM'98's sales are lumped together and of course being released as Impossible Princess with the re-issues means that those sales might've been counted separately.

 

Someone on her team should probably fix that, but I imagine that they don't actually care if it's officially certified or not.

KYLIE was certified in 1998 but the tittle was the same as 1994 album so in new bpi database it was doubled so it was lost:

 

old BPI:

 

 

 

KYLIE MINOGUE - KYLIE MINOGUE

Silver (Album) 01-04-1998

BMG (DE CONSTRUCTION)

Released 23-03-1998

 

 

by the way album was charted in 1998 in Poland and it was no. 49 with sales:

 

ZPAV monthly shipment chart for mars 1998

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48 -- 03 027 27 14 L.O. 27 - L.O. 27 5,411 [59,014]

49 -- 01 <N> 49 25 KYLIE MINOGUE - KYLIE MINOGUE 5,336

50 -- 01 <N> 50 16 RAVE & PROGRESSIVE VOL. 4 - V/A 4,920

this year it charted at weekly vinyl chart at 15.

 

To have IP chart at number 5 in the UK is like some parallel universe. My favourite album of all time finally vindicated.

 

Welcome HP! Thanks for all your updates on SayHey - what a moment for IP :w00t: