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New single from Omar out on Friday!

36 What Kind of Fool (Heard All That Before) UK chart peak: #14 From: Greatest Hits (1992) 37 Did It Again UK chart peak: #14 From: Impossible Princess 38 Slow UK chart peak: #1 From: Body Language 39 Tension UK chart peak: #19 From: Tension 40 Especially For You with Jason Donovan UK chart peak: #1 A few top 20 hits depart now as we get down to the top 40, and among those are two number ones. After building a considerable following with audiences appearing as Charlene and Scott on Neighbours, it's no surprise that Especially For You ended up being a number one for Kylie and Jason. Initially conceived for Jason's debut album Ten Good Reasons, it ended up being included on the US edition of Enjoy Yourself. Since then, it's gone on to enjoy continued success, and I'll hark back to the Showgirl tour again where it became the opening song of the encore. In Jason's absence, the lyrics appeared above her for everyone to sing along as they swayed their arms and embraced the moment before ending the show on the punchy note of Love at First Sight. I do really love Especially For You, even if Jason's vocals are the weakest part, and he always comes across - as recently as on Kylie's Netflix documentary - as quite a bitter character. Slow is one song that I will just never connect with in the same way as the majority of other fans (or even casuals). I appreciate Slow for its boldness, and of course the music video and live performances always amp up the sex factor (more on that later though with a different song) but live performances are, again, probably where my problems lie and make me tire of the song. It's a bit like The Loco-Motion in that it's a song Kylie always tries to reinvent when performing live, switching the style up and freshening it up, but for me it's one moment of a Kylie concert I genuinely wouldn't mind missing, going for a toilet break or zoning out completely. And that's not say it's not a good song, because I have fond memories from when I was younger first discovering it among the Ultimate Kylie catalogue and more. As for the other singles in this section, I've already spoken at length about the Tension era so I'll keep my thoughts on Tension as brief as possible. Following Padam Padam, could Kylie make it two bangers in a row? I'd say she succeeded on that front. Initially my reaction to the song was a bit cold (and it was with Padam Padam, too, truth be told), but over time I've warmed to it. It's a very forward-thinking song and the production is great. A banger with quite relaxed and slick vocals. Despite me not having been in a club for a long time now, I can imagine this would go off. And with one experimental song comes another; Did It Again taken from Impossible Princess stays right on trend with the experimentation and more moody Kylie side that came with that era. Not only is the music video for Did It Again one of Kylie's best and most interesting visually, the song has a certain charm to it with Kylie's vocals here having an attitude to them (something we don't get to hear often at all). Originally titled Clever Girl (Did It Again), the song ended up taking on a new meaning when it was written as a form of self-reflection following tabloids referring to Kylie as 'Kylie Thinogue' claiming she had anorexia. This song is another great example of Impossible Princess' late-in-the-day appreciation continuing to emerge even now being thoroughly deserved. And then finally in this section we have What Kind of Fool (Heard All That Before). The lead single from Greatest Hits (1992) and the final original song to be released under PWL, this feels like much more of a celebration (pardon the pun)... than Celebration. A great addition to Kylie's discography, the vocals and the productions just exude a feeling of celebrating all that she'd achieved up to this point, while lyrically being quite distant from that. It's a shame that Kylie herself isn't a fan of the song though, despite it being ranked among some of the best PWL songs and even appearing in lists of top 40 Kylie singles (albeit I imagine there'd be quite a change now for some with the extensive list on offer). Care-free, bubbly, joyous Kylie makes for some of her most aurally pleasing music though, for sure.

Wu’s been excellent to watch here whatever the outcome hopefully it tires Djokovic

I fear he should just become a full time model now xx

41 Right Here, Right Now Giorgio Moroder feat. Kylie Minogue UK chart peak: N/A 42 Higher Taio Cruz feat. Kylie Minogue UK chart peak: N/A (#8, Travie McCoy version) 43 Where the Wild Roses Grow with Nick Cave and the Bad Seeds UK chart peak: #11 44 If You Were With Me Now with Keith Washington UK chart peak: #4 From: Let's Get to It 45 Hold On to Now UK chart peak: #81 From: Tension Four of the five remaining collaborations in the top 100 take a battering here, meaning that only one single Kylie's collaborated with another artist on has made the top 40. If You Were With Me Now is one of those singles that I never really pay much attention to unless I'm going back to Let's Get to It for a full listen through. That's changed now even just from compiling this and I've found myself enjoying it a lot. It's a great collaboration, and one where Kylie and the other artist just sound like they were made to be on a song together. Kylie's first hit as a co-writer, it's a beautiful ballad and really stands out on her fourth album. I've always had a bit of a love/hate relationship with Where the Wild Roses Grow. When I was younger, moody and edgy Kylie just wasn't for me compared to pop bangers like Spinning Around and co, but maturing is realising that this is actually one of her strongest collaborations. It was lovely to see that Nick Cave had nothing but lovely things to say about Kylie too while watching her Netflix documentary. Where the Wild Roses Grow tells a beautiful - yet tragic - story. So much so that it appears on several Greatest Hits collections by Kylie now, too. The euphoric sound of Higher and the similarities in style to some of the songs from the Aphrodite era (no surprise since it was initially conceived for the album) are just two of the reasons why I love it so much. It's always been one of my favourite Kylie collaborations, and probably always will be. Taio Cruz is a name very much of his time, but Kylie manages to make the song sound timeless and it can certainly hold up against some of her pop-bop solo singles. Right Here, Right Now is an absolute gem too. As I've already mentioned, when Kylie collaborates with the right people she really can come up with pure magic. And this is a fine example. Something that really wouldn't sound out of place on Kiss Me Once - and perhaps something that would improve some of the negative opinions of that album too - Kylie's vocal delivery is so dreamy. So despite some criticism for it being basic from review circles, I'd say it's the opposite. Finally in this section, Hold On to Now is definitely one of my favourites from Tension (besides the singles yet to come in the countdown). One of the first songs to be recorded for Tension as well as one of Kylie herself's favourites, I've not spent too much time with it because the Tension and Tension II eras have been neglected for a while (rectification incoming) but certainly hearing and seeing it performed on the Tension tour via Netflix has reignited my love for it. Hearing Kylie speak about what the song means to her, too, and how important the lyrics are about holding on to now and living in the moment make it all the more powerful.

Deserved xx

Already seen some delicious new content of Draper in the past few days so I’m very much looking forward to Wimbledon Hoping he can slay a tad as he seems to be performing well since coming back.

Coming on 21st August, with 6 as yet unreleased songs included!

46 A Lifetime to Repair UK chart peak: N/A From: Golden 47 The Loco-Motion UK chart peak: #2 From: Kylie 48 Turn It Into Love UK chart peak: N/A From: Kylie 49 Cowboy Style UK chart peak: N/A From: Impossible Princess 50 Chocolate UK chart peak: #6 From: Body Language Body Language loses its first single now as we enter the top 50; and this is another one that's likely lower down than others would have it that I'll anticipate crucifixion for. Chocolate is alright. I've never rated it too highly, and while I can appreciate what it does among an album that does change things up from the more typical, commercial sounds of Light Years and Fever, it just doesn't 100% click. I'll refer to the Showgirl tour again here; once Kylie steps off her crescent moon that brought her down onto the stage for the second half of the show, I get slightly lost (thankfully I Believe in You follows to pick things back up again). But hey, at least we didn't end up with a Ludacris feature. A double whammy for the debut album here as we lose both Turn It Into Love and The Loco-Motion. The former is one of those classic, early Kylie songs that never fails to put me in a good mood when listening. It's just fun, care-free and has that typical 80s sound that can't really go wrong. Hearing it many years down the line performed live too, it sounds even better with her more mature vocals. The Loco-Motion, while still a largely enjoyable single, is probably another one that I'd put in the same category as Kids. I've tired of seeing it performed live so many times on tours, despite the stylistic changes made to refresh it. Unlike Kids though, this one's a bit more inescapable and one that would rarely be considered for permanent retirement. That's not to say I don't like it though, but I think there are definitely some songs in Kylie's discography that have been around the block more times than necessary. I didn't realise there was such a cluster of Golden singles so close together in the countdown when compiling it (Dancing and Stop Me From Falling are both safe for now, though). A Lifetime to Repair remains one of my highlights from the album and was an absolute joy to see performed live on the Golden tour, too. Kylie atop a pool table sending the crowd into a state of euphoria? Yes please. I'll never tire of the build up to the chorus. Blending country with a smidge of dance-pop really worked for Kylie here. The only thing that baffles me about some of the production changes are the negative effect it had on the chorus (see: the lyric video version below being vastly inferior to the original version included on the album). My introduction to Cowboy Style was watching the KylieFever2002 tour, and since then I've always had a soft spot for it. It's certainly interesting that reviews for this tend to be more favourable considering the underperformance of the album - and overall image - that ultimately led to Kylie and Deconstruction parting ways. Very welcome though. It's bold, it's confident, it's very different for Kylie. The way it was incorporated into the Showgirl Homecoming tour was brilliant too. A brilliant segment that that masterfully refreshed the act that had previously included In Denial and Je ne sais pas pourquoi.

Dancing, Stop Me From Falling, Golden, A Lifetime to Repair, Music's Too Sad Without You, and then Sincerely Yours (albeit in AU/NZ only)

Pop Track of the Week 2026 Each week, new releases from the worlds of pop and country are selected to go head to head, with one weekly winner. The winners will then go up against future weekly winners later in the year - at the end of each quarter and again at the end of the year - to determine the ultimate winner of 2026. WEEK 24 & 25: The Results Total votes : 24 Olivia Rodrigo - stupid song 14 Bebe Rexha - One Day 7 Griff - In the Name of Healing 2 Boy In Space - Switcheroo 1 ADÉLA - Red Bottoms 0 Cherry Bomb - Sorry You're Not Sorry 0 Johnny Orlando - Oh! 0 Marcus & Martinus - How You Know 0 Rebecca Black - Speakerphone 0 Ruel - Faking Smiles 0 Tanner Grigoli - If You Knew 0 Tom Aspaul - New Position 0 Will Linley - I Loved, I Lost 0 Zolita - HARDCORE 0 Total votes : 24 Angèle - Dis-le 6 Myles Smith - Heaven 5 HRVY - hesitate 4 INNA - Morenito 3 Natalie Imbruglia - Algorithm 3 i-dle - Crow 2 ANNA - WHITE GIRL WASTED 1 Bradley Simpson - Suzy 0 Cameron Dallas - Tailgate Town 0 felix jaehn & Omar Rudberg - siren 0 Greyson Chance - JOCK PORN 0 Orion Sisters - white lies 0 Olivia Rodrigo goes from failing to secure the win with both drop dead and the cure, to dominating the poll and winning 14 votes with stupid song, securing at least one song from her third album a spot to fight it out at the end of the quarter. Bebe Rexha, Griff and Boy In Space are the only other artists to pick up any votes in week 24. Week 25 proves to be more varied though, Angèle winning with six votes while Myles Smith and HRVY round out the podium with five and four votes respectively. WEEK 26 Choose one song in the poll - your favourite - from this week's new releases listed below and feel free to post a rate of the songs in the thread. Alfie Jukes - Edges of You Baby Queen - Permanently Obsessed Benson Boone - The Time of My Life Carly Rae Jepsen - On Wires dearALICE feat. SWEET REVENGE & Enola Bedard - Body On Delta Goodrem - Hologram Gracie Abrams - Look at My Life Harvey Brittain - HOMECOMING Katy Perry - Watch It Burn La Roux - Babyline Madonna & Feid - Read My Lips METTE - BOIL THE OCEAN Sam Smith - My Guy Stray Kids - RUN IT Pop Track of the Week 2026: Winners Week 1: Sabrina Carpenter - Such a Funny Way Week 2: Robyn - Talk to Me Week 3: Slayyyter - DANCE... Week 4: Harry Styles - Aperture Week 5: MEEK - Fabulous Week 6: Myles Smith & Niall Horan - Drive Safe Week 7: Meghan Trainor - Get In Girl Week 8: Jessie Ware - Ride Week 9: Slayyyter - OLD TECHNOLOGY Week 10: Jennifer Lopez & David Guetta - Save Me Tonight Week 11: Kacey Musgraves - Dry Spell Week 12: Ruel - Don't Say That Week 13: Slayyyter - BRITTANY MURPHY. Week 14: METTE - COMING OF AGE Week 15: Hilary Duff - Come Clean (Mine) Week 16: Demi Lovato - Low Rise Jeans Week 17: Madonna - I Feel So Free Week 18: Madonna & Sabrina Carpenter - Bring Your Love Week 19: Kesha - ORIGAMI! Week 20: Tove Lo - I'm your girl right? Week 21: Kylie Minogue - Light Up Week 22: Ariana Grande - hate that i made you love me Week 23: Taylor Swift - I Knew It, I Knew You Week 24: Olivia Rodrigo - stupid song Week 25: Angèle - Dis-le Listen to Pop Track of the Week 2026: Week 26

Love this so much. Really touching and quite a vulnerable song, but I guess he'll just end up being mocked for it more than anything lmao

The AI slop music video not even being able to make a joke properly with 'read between the headlies' It's alright. Slight bop, but overall pretty forgettable.

51 Sincerely Yours UK chart peak: N/A From: Golden 52 New York City UK chart peak: N/A From: Step Back in Time: The Definitive Collection 53 Light Up UK chart peak: N/A 54 2 Hearts UK chart peak: #4 From: X 55 Keep on Pumpin' It Visionmasters feat. Tony King & Kylie Minogue UK chart peak: #49 As the first half of the countdown completes, I find myself running for cover because I'm sure there's one single here that most will say is dropping out far too early. For me, I've always had a love/hate (mostly hate) relationship with 2 Hearts. The lead single from X, I just couldn't ever connect with it beyond sometimes thinking it sounds pleasant enough. When you consider the rest of the material on X too, 2 Hearts is definitely a departure in style and something completely different for a lead single. I remember some live performances from around the time of its release too and just not being wowed in a way that I always had been by anything Kylie put her name to. So apologies everyone, but yeah it's just not my cup of tea. I can, however, appreciate some parts of it and why others may love it so much. Light Up may be benefiting from some recency bias, but as far as a bit of a throwaway promotional single to go alongside the release of Kylie's Netflix documentary goes it's a bit of a banger. Another collaborative effort with Chris Martin, even Kylie herself has said that the song isn't intended to be a radio-friendly song, but a song that can bring everyone together in an intimate tour setting to live in and enjoy the moment. And to be fair, that's exactly how I can imagine it too. It's got that euphoric feel to it that you'd anticipate along the lines of All the Lovers seeing Kylie live. New York City was released to accompany Step Back in Time: The Definitive Collection in 2019 after initially being written for Golden but ultimately not being included. Quite honestly it's a bit camp and basic but it's a lot of fun. Really not something that would have had a place on Golden, I don't think, but at least it found itself a home. It's one of those Kylie singles that I find myself appreciating more when I go back to it having not listened for a while, too. Speaking of Golden, Sincerely Yours is the song that finds itself just outside the top 50. Another of the three songs recorded while Kylie was in Nashville, this is a love letter to the fans, but also speaks about Kylie taking some time to herself, a break from music and just to hide from the world for a while. One thing that really stood out to me while going back to this creating the countdown and reading reviews from all over is just how hyperbolic Pitchfork can be when reviewing music. They call this lightweight, but really for a Kylie song - and on an album where she really begins to embrace storytelling and layering - Sincerely Yours has so much emotional depth even if it might be lacking in production. Finally, Kylie's sample of Freestyle Orchestra's Keep on Pumpin' It Up, blended with her own song I Guess I Like It Like That, might seem a little high here but honestly it's a total bop. Another one that benefits from hearing excerpts of it in medleys with other songs on tour and then going on to appreciate the full version later. You can tell this is one of those songs that Pete Waterman was really foaming at the mouth over at the time thinking he was onto gold dust when it brought Kylie into different places he never thought she'd be when starting out, and quite right to be honest. It's a fine glimmer of the type of dance collaborations that Kylie can really work well on, however much it doesn't really sound like something quintessentially Kylie.

Honestly, whoever runs that superTV account, you will never know how much you make me want to stick pins in my eyes. Of course after announcing the franchise’s cancellation the BBC were more than likely just going to throw this out as quickly as possible really 🤷‍♂️ it’s a massive shame, but yeah.

You do know you could’ve put all of that into one post?

Rumours swirling now that sombr’s second album might be imminent with some teasers among the promo for My Body Isn’t Ready, Potentially titled Do Not Read This Journal. But then we also have the You Are the Reason tour.

Josh Heuston is in the music video too. And I’m fully on board with him miming the lyrics better than sombr

56 Je ne sais pas pourquoi UK chart peak: #2 From: Kylie 57 Golden UK chart peak: N/A From: Golden 58 Some Kind of Bliss UK chart peak: #22 From: Impossible Princess 59 Dance Floor Darling UK chart peak: N/A From: DISCO 60 Wouldn't Change a Thing UK chart peak: #2 From: Enjoy Yourself All the twos in this section with three singles dropping out that peaked at #2, #2 and #22. The first of those is one that will mark the beginning of my undying adoration for the Showgirl tour coming out in full force. Je ne sais pas pourquoi is a lovely song, and in a really emotive third act on the Showgirl tour alongside In Denial and Confide in Me, it was the first time I'd heard it, and with such a captivating performance and good storytelling throughout that whole act even listening to it now it's what I picture. Although you wouldn't particularly look back at Kylie's entire discography and immediately think 'yeah this is one of her greatest hits', the love for her first few eras was strong at that point. Similarly to Got to Be Certain, Wouldn't Change a Thing is an enjoyable bop and has the big nostalgia factor attached to it. Taken from her second album Enjoy Yourself - an album that always lends itself to heavy critiques - it's definitely one of the most palatable and memorable songs. Despite receiving acclaim for her collaboration with Nick Cave and the Bad Seeds, when Kylie released Some Kind of Bliss - marking the beginning of the Impossible Princess era - it was met with criticism. Albeit now retrospectively this and the era in general are remembered more fondly as people come around and realise she was just ahead of the curve, bold in her experimentation, and committed to doing what she wanted to do at the time. Some Kind of Bliss is a great song. Admittedly I myself don't really go back to Impossible Princess too much, but when I do I'm always surprised by just how much I enjoy it. Fast forward and we have two singles from Kylie's more recent eras. Dance Floor Darling, from DISCO, is one of the songs that is quintessentially on brand with the disco theme. A fun bop that really gets you in the disco mood much like the majority of the album. It's a shame it didn't manage to chart in the UK, because it's definitely a great representation of the highs this era had to offer (particularly looking back now realising Magic wasn't the wisest choice of single). Self-empowerment anthem Golden, the third single from her fourteenth album of the same name, is one of those songs that doesn't sound the most remarkable when listening to the studio version but did really come to life and was quite the moment seeing it performed live. Not only that, the storytelling is one of the strongest components of this album and Golden is one song where it really shows. It's no surprise when you consider this was one of the three songs from the album that was conceived when Kylie was in Nashville. And good on Kylie for sticking the finger up to all of the critiques that have come her way from the media regarding her age.

Season 3 coming on 6th August!

Series 4 (11 episodes again) and another celebrity special now confirmed!

New single from Cruz out on Friday! Appears to be an EP coming soon too with a scored out tracklist in his latest Insta post.

Y’all constantly bashing KMO for fun need help. It’s a decent album.

61 Where Is the Feeling? UK chart peak: #16 From: Kylie Minogue 62 Got to Be Certain UK chart peak: #2 From: Kylie 63 Real Groove UK chart peak: N/A (#95, Dua Lipa version) From: DISCO 64 Kids with Robbie Williams UK chart peak: #2 From: Light Years 65 At Christmas UK chart peak: N/A From: Kylie Christmas: Snow Queen Edition Two #2 hits drop out of the running now, one of them from Kylie's debut album and the other a collaboration with Robbie Williams. Got to Be Certain really solidifies itself as a 'classic Kylie song' from the early days even if it's not considered a massive fan favourite. It's always nice hearing her blend it in some way or another to medleys when performed live, always giving a nod to her beginnings. It's like most of the rest of the self-titled debut; a fun little bop you can always enjoy when you go back to it. Kids, on the other hand, is potentially a bit lower than some might expect. It's not a bad song, and as far as Kylie collaborations go it's certainly among the top-to-middle of the pack. My problem, or rather tiring, of Kids though comes from it always being included on a tour setlist from Showgirl onwards. And what's funny is that I find the version performed live with Dannii on the Showgirl Homecoming tour to be much more enjoyable than the original. You can tell they had so much fun performing that together, sharing the stage at such an important time for Kylie rebuilding her strength. Every tour after it has been performed on though always feels like a re-tread of the magic they managed to achieve with it on the Showgirl tour. At Christmas becomes my highest-ranked Christmas single by Kylie. It wouldn't be my top pick of the Christmas songs overall. As I've already said, there are other songs from her Christmas packages that are much more enjoyable and could have served as singles too, but alas. At Christmas is a really solid song. It's camp, but it's not quite as in your face as XMAS is and manages to sound really naturally festive and warm, encapsulating the festive period in a way that some original Christmas songs these days just chase for the sake of putting a Christmas song out rather than committing to the bit. Real Groove was a single I was not a fan of at all when the DISCO era first rolled up. It was probably one of my least favourites on the album. Since then, I've warmed to it a lot and it's grown in my affections for sure. The Studio 2054 remix with Dua Lipa certainly elevates it a little more too; a song that definitely feels like it was screaming for Dua Lipa to be featured on it from the beginning since it's not too far removed from something you could actually imagine Dua releasing herself. Admittedly KM94 is one album I don't find myself going back to often at all. A bit of an anomaly in her back catalogue considering I do go back to other earlier albums quite a bit. That said, Where Is the Feeling? is a great song (despite that 6:58 length). Released differently around the world, it ended up being the third single from KM94 in the UK. Quite a change in sound and style compared to the previous single Put Yourself in My Place. It's groovy though, and a nice departure from the vocal delivery on some of Let's Get to It. Considering the song originally wasn't meant for Kylie and was instead recorded by Within a Dream prior, thankfully the stars aligned and we have it.

I’ve never liked Starmer, and some of the things this government have pushed through so far have been f***ing awful. So in that sense I’ll be glad to see someone new take over and hopefully steer us in a different direction of sorts. But it’s not been an absolutely terrible, unsalvageable tenure so it does seem ridiculous that it’s come to this just 2 years in.