Posted Sunday at 17:003 days Following the release of Kylie's Netflix documentary, I've found myself diving back into her discography a lot, rediscovering old favourites and warming up (slightly) to recent singles having found myself drifting away during both the Tension and Tension II eras.And so I've ranked 100 of Kylie's singles - as main artist, as featured artist, and some others thrown in for good measure (no complaints if it's not as definitive as you'd like, please x). I'm sure I tried to do this years ago and can't remember if I ever finished it, but this time we shall get there. I'll reveal the singles in order of least favourite to favourite, but I do have a lot of love for the majority of Kylie's singles discography, and there's at least something good to be found in the outliers and outright disasters. Hope you can all join me and step back in time right from the beginning in 1987 to now with Light Up being released to accompany the documentary, and feel free to share your thoughts.
Sunday at 23:173 days Author 96My Oh Mywith Bebe Rexha & Tove LoUK chart peak: #6397I Was Gonna CancelUK chart peak: #59From: Kiss Me Once98We Are Onewith VerbalUK chart peak: N/A99Wonderful Christmastimewith MIKAUK chart peak: N/AFrom: Kylie Christmas: Snow Queen Edition100Monkey Manwith The WigglesUK chart peak: N/APerhaps a dubious inclusion in the countdown but alas it was something that happened nonetheless, Kylie's collaboration with The Wiggles takes the wooden spoon here, a charity single released in support of UNICEF. I've always felt of all the Christmas albums we have out there now in what's become quite a saturated market Kylie's one artist that has capitalised on and done Christmas songs really well. Sadly though, Wonderful Christmastime with MIKA doesn't quite hit the spot in the same way others do; certainly not among some of the better covers.Charity single We Are One, the second to appear here, with Japanese rapper Verbal, was released in support of the Tohoku earthquake and tsunami victims in 2011 and while Kylie's vocals are decent enough it falls into 'very obviously a cheap charity single' tropes. I Was Gonna Cancel has never been a favourite of mine and was always going to rank low here behind the majority of her other singles. I find it such a shame that it belongs on Kiss Me Once too because it's an album that is subject to far more hate than it actually deserves and could still have done more had this not put the final nail in the coffin. Barring one or two others, on the whole Kiss Me Once is an album full of essential Kylie. And finally here, the first of two collaborations with Tove Lo, My Oh My is the epitome of where Kylie was starting to lose me for a while with so many dance collaborations just being thrown out. Sure, it completely matches the vibes of the Tension era, but it's just not for me.
Sunday at 23:402 days I declare this first section of 5 to have no major losses I actually quite liked My Oh My when it was new, but once that freshness wore off, it's not proven itself to be a song I go back to. I haven't listened since November 2024!I Was Gonna Cancel will always be one of her worst single releases. I don't hate the song, but I don't particularly like it either and it was a poor choice of single.
Monday at 06:242 days My Oh My one paper sounds like it should be one of my favourite songs ever given I am the biggest Tove fan going but it is so grating, I cannot listen to it. One of the biggest misfires of both of their careers!Now the second Kylie x Tove song BETTER BE much much higher xx
Monday at 12:172 days Looking forward to this countdown! Agree about the "collab dance gay bop" era, that was horrendous. Hope it's over but I believe when I see a proper lead single from her next album, that better be solo at least (or a Nick Cave duet). Edited Monday at 12:192 days by Sour Candy
Monday at 18:462 days I dont hate my oh my as much as others but 95% of her collabs in the more recent years just havnt done it for me.
Monday at 22:212 days 19 hours ago, Paddington James said:No shocks so far, in fact I don’t think I’ve heard We Are One or Monkey Man.Same here. Now I wonder where "Do They Know Its Christmas" will land (the charity single Kylie did in 1989)?
Monday at 22:402 days Prob will land low but i still love that version of the song and play it loads every christmas alomg with the original, i know it gets slated but im a fan of it.
Yesterday at 09:141 day I don't even know what 'We Are One' is I think I'd probably appreciate 'I Was Gonna Cancel' more had it remained just an album track, I don't think it's that bad but it in no way should've been a single and they obviously went with it because Pharrell was the man of the moment. Mind you, having said that I don't really think anything else at that point would've done much/any better.'Wonderful Christmastime' is just a hideous song anyway, and sadly 'My Oh My' is dreadful (and a shame as all 3 artists involved had recently done such great stuff)
Yesterday at 12:551 day You are not missing much with we are one, I agree about I was gonna cancel as an album it's decent but not single material at all.
Yesterday at 13:231 day Author 15 hours ago, Red Blooded Man said:Same here. Now I wonder where "Do They Know Its Christmas" will land (the charity single Kylie did in 1989)?I haven't included those types of charity singles where she's part of an ensemble, sorry
Yesterday at 13:561 day Author 91CelebrationUK chart peak: #20From: Greatest Hits (1992)92Can't Stop Writing Songs About Youwith Gloria GaynorUK chart peak: N/AFrom: DISCO: Guest List Edition93The Other BoysNERVO feat. Kylie Minogue, Jake Shears & Nile RodgersUK chart peak: N/A94LhunaColdplay feat. Kylie MinogueUK chart peak: N/A95Only Youwith James CordenUK chart peak: #155From: Kylie ChristmasWe say goodbye to another four collaborations (spoiler: more to come low down on the list; further proof to me that Kylie excels on her own and not when other artists become involved or she's jumping onto a song for another artist), and included in here are a couple of covers too. Only You is another of the Christmas Kylie singles that just don't work for me, notably due to James Corden's involvement. It's a pleasant enough cover of Yazoo's 1982 song but had it been Kylie on her own could it have been remarkably better? Who knows. Lhuna marked the first time Coldplay had collaborated with a female artist, and was a charity single released to support World AIDS Day. While it's not bad by any means, I have to agree with David Bowie - who declined the offer to collaborate on it - that it's not one of their best. So despite the good cause and atmospheric vocals from Kylie, it belongs down here.Kylie's no stranger to working with Jake Shears, and while The Other Boys is a perfectly serviceable dance bop, it again falls into that category of Kylie jumping on dance collaborations when really she could be doing a hundred other better things (albeit this was 10 years prior to the real infiltration of dance collaborations). I had to listen to Can't Stop Writing Songs About You quite a few times before deciding where to rank it here, and while she and Gloria Gaynor sound great together, it's pretty run-of-the-mill and doesn't offer anything quite as exciting as the songs on the standard edition of DISCO (can also be said for the majority of Guest List Edition). There's no denying that Celebration - Kylie's cover of Kool & the Gang's 1980 single - is a bit of a bop. It was originally intended to be included on Let's Get to It, but was later released instead on her 1992 Greatest Hits album. As far as how it compares to 90% of the rest of the singles here, sadly I can't say it holds up. Performed live though, truly a celebration.
Yesterday at 17:541 day I prefer to forget the James Corden collab happened (but not forgive). I don't have a lot of time for most of the Kylie Christmas cover versions really.Similar with Gloria Gaynor, and this yielded one of the worst things she's ever done.'Celebration' is her worst ever single.'The Other Boys' though is an absolute GEM. Now that really deserved to be a hit of some sort.
Yesterday at 18:401 day 5 hours ago, Calum said:I haven't included those types of charity singles where she's part of an ensemble, sorry Slacker 🤭
