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I agree with both of these comments pippa! I always felt 'Disco Down' would have been a great choice...besides the fact it's a great song, it also had bells in it, which ticks one of the essential factors required for a November/December release *haha*. That said, I don't necessarily think it would have performed significantly better than 'Please Stay'. Back then, it was a VERY competitive time of year for releasing singles, and I feel that a Kylie release, regardless of what it was, would have gotten lost in the crowd. We were lucky to have 'Please Stay' squeeze into the Top Ten. Also, while she could have eeked out another release from 'Light Years', it was ultimately the right decision not to, as it gave the public that cooling off period between the end of that project and 'Fever', so that when she returned, it really was with a bang. She had cemented her return with the 'On A Night Like This' tour and by the time 'Can't Get You Out Of My Head' arrived, people were genuinely interested in new material from her. I can understand why Parlophone didn't release 'Your Disco Needs You'. She could get away with a song like that now, since she has cemented her 'national treasure' status, but back then it was very much a case of carefully plotting her re-branding and I do feel 'Your Disco Needs You' would have pigeon-holed her into the novelty/camp quarter. It's still a great song, but, for me, it just wouldn't have been the right choice at that point in her comeback!

Definitely! Anyone who says otherwise is kidding themselves. I don't think it was the wrong direction per se, just an under-cooked album. If they had given it more time, then I think they could have put together something really strong. Songs like 'Slow', 'Still Standing', 'Sweet Music', 'Loving Days', 'I'm Just Here For The Music' and 'Slo Motion' are all good tracks. Some need a bit more work but the DNA of a good song is in all of them. One thing that has always baffled me is the fact that they included 'Sweet Music' as a B-Side on the 'Slow' CD Single!! It was one of the best songs on Body Language and could easily have been a single, albeit with a bit more work). I agree...putting out Fever 2.0 would have been too predictable/easy. It' s just a shame the material wasn't strong enough! Anyhoo, back to the original topic...'Red Blooded Woman' was a lazy, obvious choice! It smacked of panic and pandering to the US, which ultimately didn't work. Great video though :yahoo: :yahoo:

I'm sure that the minimal sales impact on 'Body Language' following the release of 'Red Blooded Woman' and 'Chocolate', along with the sliding sales for these singles (125,000 --> 62,000), played a big role in Parlophone abandoning the project and shifting their focus to a greatest hits campaign. It sold decent for a Kylie album, but nobody can convince me otherwise that Parlophone didn't expect the album to be more successful. Surely they were confident that they could shift somewhere in the region of 500,000 - 1,000,000 copies following the success of 'Fever'! Why else would they invest in a launch concert that cost £1,000,000? It really is the project that could have been. I think Kylie mentioned on the interview disc that they recorded the album in 6 months. They should have gone with their original plan of holding off until 2004. They had a brilliant blue print in 'Slow', which came late in the recording process, as was the norm for a lot of Kylie lead singles at the time. They should have taken stock of what they had recorded up to that point, and spent another couple of months working on the songs!

Yeah, I remember it having a small impact but nothing spectacular. Going off the data here on Buzzjack, 'Body Language's run around the time of Red Blooded Woman was as follows: 82-76-76-73-41-28-41-47-68-100-120-160 The numbers in red bold are when Body Language and Red Blooded Woman were in the charts at the same time!

Isn't a silver certification '100,000' records...so, both of those have already reached silver status? Edit: Oh wait, that's for albums...singles is 200,000! My mistake

So, I was reading through this thread again, and since there aren't any accurate records for pre-1994, we have to guestimate sales for singles pre 'Get Into You', which seems to be the most recent single for which sales have been released. Going by an article published by the Official UK Charts back in 2017, we can get approximations for the singles without accurate data. They listed Dannii's best selling singles as being as follows: www.officialcharts.com/chart-news/dannii-minogues-official-top-20-biggest-selling-singles-revealed__19821/ 1 ALL I WANNA DO 177,980 2 WHO DO YOU LOVE NOW 170,056 3 THIS IS IT 105,000 – 170,000 4 I BEGIN TO WONDER 104,989 5 LOVE & KISSES 62,000-100,000 6 SUCCESS 62,000-100,000 7 JUMP TO THE BEAT 62,000-100,000 8 PUT THE NEEDLE ON IT 61,318 9 BABY LOVE ~61,000 10 EVERYTHING I WANTED 61,058 11 DON'T WANNA LOSE THIS FEELING 36,976 12 YOU WON'T FORGET ABOUT 36,411 13 DISREMEMBRANCE 37,405 14 THIS IS THE WAY 18,000 – 37,000 15 SHOW YOU THE WAY TO GO 18,000 – 37,000 16 I DON'T WANNA TAKE THIS PAIN 18,000 – 37,000 17 PERFECTION 18,285 18 LOVE'S ON EVERY CORNER 13,000 – 18,000 19 SO UNDER PRESSURE 13,086 20 GET INTO YOU 12,840 21 TOUCH ME LIKE THAT 11,391* * Based on knowing sales for 'Get Into You" released in 2009, "Touch Me Like That" gets bumped down a spot, since the original list didn't include "Get Into You" for some reason. Anything in bold are approximations based on sales ranking relative to actual, reported sales from 2009 (I doubt there have been any massive increases since then). So, grouped according to project: [Albums] Love & Kisses: 250,000 (estimate) Get Into You: ~15-20,000 (estimate) Girl: 17,859 (confirmed, up-to-date) Neon Nights: 101,521 (possibly ~105,000 based on sales of the reissues) Club Disco: 2,208 The Hits & Beyond: 43,563 [singles] Love & Kisses: 62,000 – 100,000 $ucce$$: 62,000 – 100,000 Jump To The Beat: 62,000 – 100,000 Baby Love: ~61,000 I Don’t Wanna Take This Pain: 18,000 – 37,000 Show You The Way To Go: 18,000 – 37,000 Love’s On Every Corner: 13,000 – 18,000 This Is It: 105,000 - 170,000 This Is The Way: 18,000 - 37,000 Get Into You: 12,840 All I Wanna Do: 177,980 Everything I Wanted: 61,058 Disremembrance: 37,405 Who Do You Love Now: 170,056 Put The Needle On It: 61,318 I Begin To Wonder: 104,989 Don't Wanna Lose This Feeling: 36,976 You Won't Forget About Me: 36,411 Perfection: 18,285 So Under Pressure: 13,086 Touch Me Like That: 11,391

Sony own the rights to the decon material, not BMG. The rights will likely revert to Kylie in the next couple of years though.

Just seeing this now...thanks a million!

Kind of depressing really, although I always find it hard to compare such stats between eras, especially since sales are calculated differently. Just wondering, since we got the sales for Dannii's 'Girl' album, is there any chance we can get sales for her other albums and her singles? Very curious to see what her sales actually are.