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Regarding miming : certainly not to a studio version, but I’d be fine if she sang to pre recorded vocals like she’s done before (like in TOTP post 2000), especially IF her and the label’s goal is to attract more casual music listeners to her music through booking her for live perfs at events.

We like it and that’s fine. But we just have to live w the reality that her live voice may not incentivise the casual music listener or awards viewer to listen pronto

That’s the problem though - the few ever times she gets to perform on us tv, she sounds so incredibly raw and nasal. Not saying she doesn’t sound nasal in UK TV perfs but they’re more used to it as they’ve seen her sing from 1988. Whilst I love PP, I don’t think last nights perf would want to make any casual fan go and listen to the song

My guess is that Kylie will do an Adele in 2024: have a pop up residency (same set list and all) in EU, UK and Oz: limited run and limited audience. Didn’t Madge do one in 2019 as well? Edit: Adele announced only Munich, but you get my drift

I get that but Beyoncé’s new song made both NMF UK and Hot Hits UK the same day! (Today)

I don't see it on Hot Hits UK and gone from UK NMF :(

My sweet SmileyKylie, here you are (latest SH update): 📈 Spotify Update “Dance Alone“ 💃🪩: Week 1 — 3.673.301 14 /2— 440.316 TOTAL — 4.113.617 STREAMS​ I think it's doing very well for a song that had no hype, no nothing and just dropped. To have touched 4M streams in just over a week is amazing. Key now is what exactly the label (labels) has/ve planned to keep the momentum going. Seeing as the streaming numbers are doing well, they hopefully have something up their sleeve.

Fact check: she had only one #1 in Australia (Locomotion) prior to the UK. Lucky onwards, both countries got her releases more or less at the same time (and yes, I'm aware that Certain was an Oz #1 and not a UK no1). I'm not bagging Australia, in fact I love Australia (esp Melbourne!) but if you look at Kylie's Aus profile post the first few releases (mid 1988 to pretty much the Confide in Me era), there was a lot of negativity and backlash around her in Oz. I'm not saying the UK media was overly generous and loving to her, but they were far more reasonable, supportive and positive during the post Neighbours and SAW phases. The DeCon era, esp IP and the Nick Cave duet started some Oz love and it was I think the Parlo era onwards which cemented it. She herself has said on several interviews that she always did hold that tiny grudge during the early years. (this was a BBC R1 interview when she was promoting her 1994 album, I was surprised too at the time as I'd never known her to be so candid).

How is it doing on UK specific Spotify lists? For Kylie's label I'm sure, unless it's a UK hit, it's not a hit ;)

Kylie- Turn it into Love Enjoy Yourself-Enjoy Yourself or Overdreaming Rhythm of Love - Always Find the Time, album version of Shocked! Lets Get To It- live and learn Kylie Minogue- where has the love gone Impossible Princess- Dreams Light Years - none Fever- love affairs Tightrope Body Language Loving Days X- Like a Drug Aphrodite Heart strings Kiss Me Once - title track Kylie Christmas- (never heard this album) Golden Raining Glitter Disco Last chance or don’t wanna miss a thing Tension Vegas High

This is so amazing, and it feels like it’s a proper global smash unlike PP

It's really holding well, I wasn't expecting this.

Oh my it's doing very well! I still don't see it on the UK top 200 spotify though (on kworb).

Again, aware that her first 3 singles went to no1 in Oz, and I'm not saying they hate Kylie or anything. Just saying the UK loved Kylie unconditionally, esp in the early years when she needed that support and encouragement. On the other hand, Kylie had to earn love and respect in Australia. The one good thing Aus did for her was giving Confide a full 4 weeks at #1 ;) Also, given that Kylie has a British passport as well, I wonder why they don't nominate her in the British categories.

Her first freakin #1 Aus album was in 2000, well over a decade into her career. Australia jumped on the Kylie bandwagon AFTER the UK made her a star. Today, there is respect in Australia for kylie because she proved that even without the support backing of her own country the first few years of her career, she could make it by working hard and perservering. To me, home and family are the people you can count on when you're down and need someone to watch your back. Aus did neither in the early days.

Not Rick or Jesse ware pls. I love them but they’re both Harley A listers. Maybe Pete waterman?!

I hope it's a current big superstar like an Adele (assuming she's visiting the UK), Dua, James Cordon or even a has-been like David Beckham. Sometimes a high profile presenter can garner as much attention as the recipient itself

As far as I'm concerned, UK is HER home and will always be. Australia to me is just her birthplace. Australia got on the Kylie bandwagon only around the IP time but the UK has unconditionally supported her, raised her and loved her even when she was uncool (in her native country) during the Neighbours days. There's also a huge difference in terms of responses between the British and Aussies. A lot of aussies still cringe at the mention of her name, even though they'd call her a "national treasure". But the British genuinely seem happy to talk about her, even those that don't listen to her songs or like them have something nice to say about her, like she's a family member or something.

Me too. I definitely want the TOTP ROL medley or even the Audience With (2001) medley at the end. Of course she'll do Padam, tension, All the lovers and LAFS. Just pls pls no Locomotion or a piano version of Lucky!

I agree overall...and the bolded is probably what Kylie and her record label thought as well when signing up for this duet. Besides which, the duet is so basic I doubt she spent more than a day singing the vocals. This looks even less work than her Neighbours cameo :D

I'm kind of sure her record label would've negotiated that she leave with some kind, any kind of hardware if she were going to show up.

LOL! Probably Kylie is moving away from the "I need to score a hit" to more of 'how do I establish myself on streaming" as that's what record companies are looking at these days, and in that sense she's achieved it with this song. As an old chart watcher myself, maybe I need to get out of the "it isn't a hit if it doesn't chart" mentality as well but look at lifetime streaming numbers?

Win. At least it’ll make it into headlines and her name will be around for a few days unlike a TV perf which doesn’t seem To help her chart wise (at least, off late)

Day 3 was supposedly some 860K streams on Spotify but don’t know how much of it was UK

Thanks Liam. Apologies in advance for the stupid question but is that global? And is that good/healthy or meh?