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No true at all but go off. For comparison, Britney Spears was releasing her 4th album, In The Zone, while Beyoncé had only just released her first album, Dangerously In Love, 6 months prior; yet Beyoncé is only 25M album equivalents behind Britney who released 3 albums in MUCH better sales conditions then Bey had. Theoretically, had DC3's "Survivor" been Beyoncé's album, she'd only be 10M behind her. 6 albums and 13 years into her career she had the 2nd biggest female album of the year and you call her celebrity status bigger than her musical career? lol
Hi Sarah!
I suppose 3 clarifications are needed:
1) the article is from April
2) the 100k figure you state is pure units shipments estimates, the 288k involves streaming points
3) Mediatraffic are massively inaccurate anyway, they can't be stated as facts
I agree with others that your dislike of Kylie is very clear...I am from Asia and Kylie is a very welcome western pop star. She is treated as the national treasure of Australia. She became international without US market, which is really impressive. We all know that Kylie is not comparable with Madonna on selling numbers because nobody could. People put their names together because they have very similar fan base ( Dancepop, Gay icon, in a friendly way) Kylie is probably the only mainstream artist only focusing on dancepop throughout her career. Your complete ignorance of her tour makes me feel bad. Kylie is a visual artist, and her tour is one of the best on the earth. I could barely find another artist that put so much effort to a show expected Madonna. Kylie’s tour has been to many countries that maybe only Madonna and Shakira could beat her. She has good taste on music and fashion which makes her fresh( Fever is a prediction of EDM; She got the most Vogue covers internationally behind Madonna and Rihanna). She is popular than you expected internationally. She got several No.1 Albums in Taiwan; Her songs got covered in Japan and went directly to No. 1; She is the first foreigner female artist that tour in Tokyo Dome; she holds the record for the most expensive tickets in China, Madonna can’t even visit China. Not to mention how the LGBT community support her. To me, Madonna and Kylie are the two sides of the perfection: Madonna is an aggressive killer, and Kylie is a sensitive healer. Spiritually, one part of Donna summer goes like Cher-Kylie- Britney; the other goes like Madonna-Gaga. Sadly you can’t get it. I feel like she is so underrated that even the Jenner thing could take her name nowadays. US are taking over the world and people just ignoring her. She deserves more. At least Kylie is a true artist who brought happiness to the music industry.
To simply define an artist based on sales and your feeble attempt to undermine her popularity with an article on a online publication is simply sad. Should you look at the cultural impact Kylie Minogue has generated over a thirty year timespan as well as consistantly garnishing multiple top tens in multiple countries theoughout the globe speaks for itself. Not to mention doing so without the massive revenue market that is America. No one needs your analysis to validate her popularity. I understand you are seaching for a way to justify your opinion, but your opinion is just that, an opinion. One that is written on a weak foundation. What validity of kylie's popularity rests in Grammys, Le Order des Arts et Lettres, Brits, Arias, OBE and things most musicians would kill to have. Your article is passè and I can only hope you consider these things the next time you think of Kylie Minogue. Ignorance such as what is displayed, written in this article may lead you and your "professional opinion" to search for career vality of it's own.
Hi Scorn1031!
Surely what's bad is thinking that a fans board of people backing each other in believing their fave artist have been shaking the world of music and fashion for 30 years is an accurate place of information. You say she has "consistantly garnishing multiple top tens", that's false, in most markets she got 2-top 10 eras, with a huge 13 years hole in-between, and that's it. You affirm, backed by nothing, that she is immensely popular. That is an opinion. Records sales are no opinion, they are facts, no matter if they are of your liking or not.
You speak about ignorance - what sounds highly ignorant is speaking about how "popular" someone is because he got an "Le Order des Arts et Lettre" and being unable to even write the distinction correctly. No need to mention nearly 1,000 artists get it every year, but no doubt you have no idea about that. FYI, there is 3 levels of prizes, Kylie has the lowest one (Chevalier) same as Martin Solveig, to give you an idea, at the upper level (Officiers) there is people like Pharrell Williams, while at the highest one (Commandeur) there is Petula Clark, Bowie, Barbara Hendricks, Amália Rodrigues, Patti Smith, female singers you most likely can't sing-a-long a song to. As for "killing to have", you must learn that various relevant French artists refused these prizes because they are fast-food awards to get some media exposure. Thus, when you try to sell the Chevalier medal as a big thing proving high popularity, you are barely highlighting that you have no idea of what you are talking about.
When a singer is popular he sells records, it's as simple as that. If we pick up 100 people equally spread through the globe and ask them to mention 100 popular artists, the most realistic scenario is that none will mention Kylie Minogue. You can like it or not, you can maintain a high level of delusion speaking daily to people sharing the same one, it won't change that. You should keep in mind that each and every time a fanatic tries to sell his favorite artist as a superstar while that's not true, rather than defend him/her he is barely tarnishing his/her image.
I have to ask you something!! Where did you find the Fever sales in Bazil?! I never read nothing about it, it wasn't even certified Gold by ABPD/PMB here, and we have only 2k with codes (after 2003).
The impact of Kylie goes beyond the numbers. It has survived decades with quite popular songs on radios in the United Kingdom, Austraia and much of Europe. It is a matter of seeing the Euro Airplay ranking. And if we have to talk about finished races we can mention Gaga, who despite his enormous popularity, only had 3 numbers 1 on Billboard and his last global hit was 7 years ago when he is still young.
The thing about Rihanna is absurd, she sells very little in albums and it's quite difficult to keep the same regularity of hits when she reaches her forties.
Jennifer Lopez does not give for many comments. Their sales are very similar to those of Kylie, and like Rihanna sells few albums copies.
Rihanna sells little albums? She sold 33 million physical albums. That is more than Kylie did and Rihanna had the disadvantage of being in a less favourable era where albums don't sell.
Just look at Kylies fever and Rihannas Good Girl Gone Bad and you will see Rihanna sells more albums.
You just said yourself "in the United States"... that is really the only place on earth that doesn't see Kylie as an iconic artist.
Hey MJD,
Amazing work you did there a few months ago.
Worldwide Sales figures for Kylie’s Latest album Golden are unavailable anywhere, apart from Mediatraffic which sounds totally unreliable.
Would be fantastic if you could update that part with your data, now that the campaign draws to a close.
Debate is rife on forums - only proper figures can get a proper picture.
Thanks a million.
Hey MJD!
You made a really great job with Kylie. Although it hurts to admit it - as a Kylie fan - this proves how she definitely is a UK/Oz based artist with occasional success outside of those borders...
Anyway, I have a very precise question regarding Can't Get You Out Of My Head's French sales. They used to be estimated at around 900k, with a few years ago I remember reading an article on Charts In France sayig that this figure had been massively overestimated and that it was actually on less than 600,000 copies... I find it hard to believe, with the single reaching the top of the singles chart around the Christmas period, having lasting success in 2002 and etc... Could you shed some light on that particular issue?
Lady Gaga's The Fame almost sold as much as Kylie's entire discopraphy lol
If u think that is funny and her achievement are not impressive. Imagine how all the struggling artists out there feels like. Kylie's achievement is already extraodinary and millions of singers out there would do anything just to achieve 10% of what she has achieve.
And Kylie's "Can't Get You Out Of My Head" is bigger than any Lady Gaga song!
