No surprise really after the disastrous album campaign for Kiss Me Once.

http://www.nme.com/news/kylie-minogue/77639

Best thing she could have done. They messed up X too, that was an amazing album. I don't think Kiss Me Once was an amazing album but it should have performed better. I do think Crystallize is amazing and hope this does well for her.

Not to sound like a broken record, but GOOD!!!!

She really should have left after Aphrodite or when she had Roc Nation as her new management. Into The Blue video almost made me rethink otherwise (until that didn't do as amazingly it should have in the charts), but after I Was Gonna Cancel, it justifies why she needs to move on. Not reaching Top 40 is really disappointing and her album has just sold past Silver threshold (60k) and this was long after her season on The Voice UK.

I'm sure her tour will do fine later this year though.

If she does go full throttle with Jay Z as the article suggests, I hope she keeps out of his lifts!!!

You gotta feel sorry for her that she gave up months to do The Voice which she clearly didn't want to do to help sell the album, and it didn't seem to help much.

Yeah, I think as soon as she saw the sales results, she quickly bailed. I think she will also leave The Voice AU after this season also.

It kinda makes you think if Shakira really wanted to be one of the coaches for The Voice US. She is certainly in a far better position than Christina Aguilera ever was before and after she joined. Sure, her latest album and singles aren't selling as much as her Sale el Sol era now, but it might be a different story with her World Cup song and the matches starting in a few weeks. It is receiving more attention than the Pitbull and JLo one.

I heard about this last week but still no actual confirmation from Kylie or Parlo. Until then i don't believe it

But it's about time if she did. They have not been good towards her.

X had its good songs, but some of the B-sides were 10x better than what made it to the album in some places . Aphrodite had a great start with All The Lovers (still one of my favourite Kylie moments ever) and then it slowly fell apart (Better Than Today out 'soon' on X Factor, I'm looking at you)

Kiss Me Once reminds me of MDNA and that there are a number of great songs on the album, but the singles were badly chosen (although Into The Blue was a great single to lead with) and badly promoted (Into The Blue did not deserve to peak at number 12, that's for sure). Personally, I would have loved to have seen Fine and Feels So Good get a release.

So if Kylie is leaving Parlophone then good on her. Now I'm gonna go and listen to Sleeping With The Enemy because it feels so apt for right now...

I like the x album and aprodite as well also though the promo was not as good as it should have been after all the lovers she seemed to disappear.
I loved put your hands up and also into the blue I know that song didn't chart well but it's played everywhere and got lots of airplay on radio 2.

Be fair though. Parlophone was partly (hugely) responsible for her successful comeback. Throughout Light Years, Fever. Body Language and Ultimate Kylie they were fantastic. I don't think they did that bad a job with X either although they could have done better!. However it was Aphrodite where the wheels started falling off and they started pissing around - something Kylie herself has openly criticised.

Unfortunately the Parlophone today isn't the Parlophone it was ten or even five years ago - partly possibly due to the Warners buy out. Lily Allen has also recently criticised them.

Her poor single sales are fair enough. The singles market today it totally different to what it once was, and I don't think any record company can improve that. Realistically I think her days of platinum selling singles are over.... however there are no excuses for the atrocious album sales Poor Kylie. Although i'm sure she'll soldier through... who could have imagined that just 4 years after Impossible Princess she would have one of the most sucessful periods of her entire career!

I am not being funny but what more could she/the record company have done for Into the Blue and the album when both were released? I saw multiple interviews online about this album's release and she got some high profile ITB performances.

How was radio airplay? I think that could have affected her but other than that people certainly could have seen that she had a new record out to buy. They just weren't interested.

I blame Into the Blue as the lead single, it was well below par.

the new album wasn't exactly exciting. i thought after the roc nation deal she was gonna come out with something really good. it's not exactly the record companies fault the album wasn't much cop

there were a lot of rumours flying around that Kylie had recorded a more exciting album ready for release last summer (with Skirt among those tracks, more urban/edm kind of music) but Parlophone rejected it...

The "Kiss Me Once" album was just too safe, too typical Kylie-by-numbers.
It was fine for her fanbase but she was never going to attract a new audience or casual music fans with it.

ITB was a poor and incredibly average single to lead and over all the album offers nothing new. But that said it is a decent enough collection with many singles on it. I think X is where things began to go pear shaped. Wrong singles choices certain songs relegated (Rippin Up The Disco) in favour of weaker material. Then with Aphrodite great start, but then GOMW not promoted released far to late before releasing a poor third single at which point the album had more or less ceased promotion. That album was good enough to be as big as Fever.

Add to the Release of another best of, the shambles in handling Timebomb and it's easy to why she is annoyed and considering leaving.

Taking aside the fact the wrong lead single was chosen I think really the x campaign was handled just fine, especially when you compare it with what were currently enduring, however if could always be worse it could be handled as bad as artpop

I say this as a former avid Kylie fan......

Her recent releases in terms of music have been crap and of a standard which doesn't even merit column iches. When I first heard "Into The Blue" I dreaded the direction this new LP was going to take and frankly there isnt even one song that is memorable or worth mentioning.

She seems quite happy doing a Madonna on a gym ball and looking like a 45 yo slapper. The image that has come from this album is not down to the label but her and her management. Not even Kylie fans like the album....Its just over produced noise....

She thought it was great being signed to Rocnation...well it isn't....I don't know who was the overall producer for this album but it lacked the finesse and direction of Aphrodite (which is up there with Fever and Light Years, Body Language). This album deserved to flop and frankly I am glad it did.....she took the easy route and thought cashing in on cheap EDM foller would be a sure fire success....Well look at Madonna and MDNA.....sometimes WOMAN you need to act your age.

I deplore the whole image and direction of this album, it is completely ill fitting and frankly sh*t.

I just don't understand what the hell was going through her or her managements mind....

Act your age Kylie instead of acting like a 2 bit whore belonging to a sex shop in Vegas.

She's in a difficult situation.

Radio 1 distorts the market so heavily that it's hard to get a hit without it's support, but she's too old to get it's support automatically, and courting it by following current musical trends which are shit not only doesn't work but also alienates her older, more discerning audience. As she found with Kiss Me Once.

see that's what i was expecting and hoping for. i was wondering if she could have ended up getting big in the states. she still has the looks too

It's her age. What I heard was quite good but your average record buyer is probably young enough to be her child. They are buying songs, in general, by people their own age ( with the odd exception like Robin Thicke or Jay Z). She is having the same problems that Madonna is having. It won't change by having a different record company. And you Kylie fanatics need to understand this. Her chart dominant years are OVER.

If so, I'm just happy that her last big hit was All The Lovers

I agree, it just wasn't a great album IMO and its like she lost some of her sparkle

Its hard to believe there are still seats left at most of her shows too, I thought it was hard to get a kylie concert ticket?

That's a BRILLIANT song.

That song was wonderful, Kylie at her best. Releasing music that is joyful and catchy. It set the stage for what is otherwise a fantastic album.


I don't find it hard to believe at all, when Aphrodite was released the record buying public were still able to connect with her. Though the album wasn't adventurous by any stretch having Stuart Price at the helm gave it more direction and coherence. Something she didn't have for X or the current potato sack.

Nobody for a moment suggested she should play it safe, Body Language itself an RnB album was a massive departure for her. She experimented with different sounds and largely pulled it off, the image alongside it was coherent and edgy. It worked!

What she has gone and done is shit on the people that kept her career going. Shes done a Madonna and started charging cray prices for tickets to see her show. No longer is it the one set fee there are now different tiers depending on how close you are to the stage and not forgetting Platinum tickets at around £270. Stars who charge that much especially when releasing what is frankly a shit album deserve to flop. They are pricing even their own devoted fans out of the experience.

One Direction and the like are popular for a reason.....they may release rather bland music but it captures the family at home. Prices for their gigs are accessible to the majority of people. They don't price fans out of the market. I was considering seeing her on tour however the recent album and ticket prices have lead me to balk at the idea.


I agree!

So Kylie isn't leaving Parlophone according to her recent tweet...