It's a Padamic! Kylie Minogue's Padam Padam becomes her highest-charting UK single in nearly a decade

Kylie Minogue has seen those “Padam Padam” memes… and she loves them.

For fans of: Ava Max, Eurovision, all the fake-sounding RuPaul songs Related: Kylie Minogue ‘bursting with joy’ as new single Padam Padam soars up charts Padam Padam, the first single from Kylie Minogue’s forthcoming 16th album Tension, has proven as inescapable (and about as subtle) as an airborne virus. The track has been subject to hundreds of memes and thousands of text messages from mums to their gay sons: “What’s ‘padam’?”The memes, combined with the overt ridiculousness of the whole affair – a dead-serious Eurodance track built around the onomatopoeic sound of a heartbeart – have pushed Padam Padam to Kylie’s highest singles chart placement in over a decade.

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Kylie Minogue‘s got a viral hit!

Kylie Minogue is set to enter the tough US pop charts for the first time in more than two decades with a spectacular comeback track inspired by Edith Piaf.  The star, who spent her 55th birthday today at the Monaco Grand Prix, has released a dance single, Padam Padam, sharing a title with a 1951 song by the iconic French singer.

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Kylie Minogue‘s got a viral hit!

Kylie Minogue is the undisputed Princess of Pop; an adopted cultural icon of the UK and one of the most chameleonic forces ever seen in the music sphere.

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Kylie Minogue has released new track ‘Padam Padam’, the lead single from her forthcoming new album ‘Tension’ — listen to it below.Last week, the Australian pop star announced that the follow-up to 2020’s ‘Disco‘ would be arriving September 22, describing it as a “blend of personal reflection, club abandon and melancholic high”.First single ‘Padam Padam’ is produced by Lostboy (Griff, Anne-Marie, Tiesto) and features a thumping earworm refrain. “When your heart goes / Padam Padam / I hear it and I know / Padam Padam / I know you wanna take me home,” she sings atop an electronic bassline.Listen to ‘Padam Padam’ and watch the music video, filmed in LA and directed by Sophie Muller, below.“I started this album with an open mind and a blank page,” Minogue shared in a press release.

Prepare to dance.

Minogue goes racy and sexy in this latest single, not that she’s ever strayed away from sex appeal. Some of her recent works have been a bit more tame, with disco and country-tinged albums providing a fair amount of family-friendly fun. But this time around, the Australian pop goddess is speaking only to the adults.“Padam Padam” is all about finding that right man on the dance floor and spending the night with him.