'That's Crazy': Kylie Tops Chart in Five Decades as 'Disco' Hits No.1

Australian singer Kylie Minogue. (Getty Images)
Australian singer Kylie Minogue. (Getty Images)
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'That's Crazy': Kylie Tops Chart in Five Decades as 'Disco' Hits No.1

Australian singer Kylie Minogue. (Getty Images)
Australian singer Kylie Minogue. (Getty Images)

Australian singer Kylie Minogue made what she called a “crazy” slice of pop music history on Friday, becoming the first female artist to have number one albums in Britain across five decades as “Disco” topped the charts.

Mostly recorded at home during lockdown, her 15th studio album also notched up the best opening week for any release so far in 2020 with 55,000 chart sales, the Official Charts Company said.

“That sounds crazy to me. I’m 52 years old,” Minogue told Reuters of the five-decade record - an accolade she now shares with Bruce Springsteen - before it was announced.

“Disco”, in which she revisits her dance music roots, also marks Minogue’s eighth UK number one album, taking her one ahead of Cliff Richard, Elton John and George Michael with seven apiece.

Speaking about the power of pop, Minogue said it can be a marker for people’s lives.

“A lot of the best pop songs that seem so simple are the trickiest ones to do. There’s no distraction. There’s no tricks. It’s just an amazing song,” she said.

After making her name in hit soap opera “Neighbors”, Minogue burst onto the music scene in the late 1980s working with producers Stock, Aitken and Waterman.

Mike Stock recalled their first meeting in 1987. As soon as she got behind the microphone “she was a star”, he said.

Together they made four albums, with the first two - “Kylie” (1988) and “Enjoy Yourself” (1989) - also reaching number one.

“The first album we did was one of the best-selling albums of the whole decade,” Stock told Reuters.

“... I’m obviously very proud of that. Proud to have worked with Kylie who had lasted in the business - just to survive is an achievement. But she’s doing brilliant.”



Katy Perry Launches into Space with All-Female Crew on Blue Origin Rocket

(FILES) US singer Katy Perry attends the Baby2Baby gala at Pacific Design Center in West Hollywood, California, November 9, 2024. (Photo by Michael Tran / AFP)
(FILES) US singer Katy Perry attends the Baby2Baby gala at Pacific Design Center in West Hollywood, California, November 9, 2024. (Photo by Michael Tran / AFP)
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Katy Perry Launches into Space with All-Female Crew on Blue Origin Rocket

(FILES) US singer Katy Perry attends the Baby2Baby gala at Pacific Design Center in West Hollywood, California, November 9, 2024. (Photo by Michael Tran / AFP)
(FILES) US singer Katy Perry attends the Baby2Baby gala at Pacific Design Center in West Hollywood, California, November 9, 2024. (Photo by Michael Tran / AFP)

Pop star Katy Perry and five other women launched into space on a Blue Origin rocket and successfully returned to earth on Monday, marking the first all-female spaceflight in more than 60 years.

The crew lifted off on a New Shepard rocket from West Texas at 9:31 a.m. ET (1331 GMT) and traveled to the edge of space, where they experienced a brief period of weightlessness before returning to earth in a flight lasting around 11 minutes, according to a live broadcast by Blue Origin, the space company founded by billionaire Jeff Bezos.

The six-person crew also included Bezos' fiancée Lauren Sanchez, CBS host Gayle King, former NASA rocket scientist Aisha Bowe, scientist Amanda Nguyen and film producer Kerianne Flynn.