On Friday night, it was introduced that Kylie Minogue’s newest single XMAS was primary on this 12 months’s Christmas chart.
The accolade is noteworthy for a lot of causes, not least as a result of XMAS is an Amazon Music unique, which means it’s not out there to stream on the preferred platforms like Spotify, Apple Music or Tidal.
Kylie can also be celebrating her first UK primary in additional than twenty years, having final topped the charts in 2003 with Gradual.
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In response to her first solo Christmas primary – and her eighth general – the Australian pop celebrity enthused: “It’s onerous to place into phrases how particular this feels. Being Christmas primary actually is probably the most great reward!
“I’m so grateful to everybody who’s been listening and sharing the love and I’m wishing you all a really Merry Christmas!”
As for the remainder of the chart, Wham!’s Final Christmas will get the silver medal for this week at quantity two, whereas Mariah Carey’s All I Need For Christmas Is You is at three.
Rounding off the highest 5 are Brenda Lee’s traditional Rockin’ Round The Christmas Is You and Collectively For Palestine’s new charity single Lullaby.
Kylie is now the one girl to have had primary in 4 totally different a long time – the Nineteen Eighties, Nineteen Nineties, 2000s and 2020s – with solely Elvis Presley, Elton John and Queen with the ability to boast the identical.
XMAS is taken from the reissued model of Kylie’s seasonal album Christmas, which was revamped earlier this 12 months in celebration of its tenth anniversary.
She was beforehand a featured vocalist on the oft-overlooked second model of Band Help’s Do They Know It’s Christmas?, which was launched in 1989 and topped the Christmas chart within the UK that 12 months, although XMAS is her first festive primary as a solo performing.
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