It's a Padamic! Kylie Minogue's Padam Padam becomes her highest-charting UK single in nearly a decade
26.05.2023 - 16:03
/ officialcharts.com
It's never been wise to count Kylie Minogue out.
The undisputed Princess of Pop for now nearly five decades, Kylie has worn many hats and explored many facets of the pop machine throughout her career, but this just might be her most intriguing form yet; elastic, Eastern Europe inspired electro pop with a bite.
Why? Well, she's only gone and Padam (Padam) it, landing the UK’s best-selling single of the week, smashing back into the Official Chart Top 40 with Padam Padam, her highest-charting single in nearly a decade.
This would be a cause for celebration for any artist at any point in their career, but it feels particularly salient for Kylie given that Padam Padam is the most weird (but wonderful!) left-of-centre turn for an artist five decades in, who has never been afraid to experiment.
Today (May 26) Padam Padam's entry at Number 26 delivers Kylie her 52nd Top 40 entry, and her highest-charting song in the UK since Into The Blue hit Number 12 in 2014. The track is the UK’s most-downloaded song of the week, scooping a Number 1 on the Official Singles Sales Chart and Download Chart.
But how did it get there? Well, ever since it dropped, Padam Padam (which was written by producer Lostboy and Ina Wroldsen, best known for writing Clean Bandit's Rockabye and the early hits of The Saturdays) ignited a fire across social media. It is, literally, a Padamic (sorry).
It proves to be Kylie's best performing single on the Official Chart in nearly a decade; she last entered the UK Top 40 with the country-pop ditty Dancing, taken from her 2018 album Golden.
Dancing - and Golden - represented something of a step back from Kylie from aiming at a commercial market. And although her 2020 record-breaking lockdown album DISCO