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‘THE ONE’ MISSES UK TOP 10 BY MILES

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Kylie Minogue’s latest single ‘The One’ has become the lowest charting UK single of her career, after debuting in the British singles chart at a lowly No.38 this week. The last Kylie single that missed the UK top 20 was Some Kind Of Bliss eleven years ago. This comes despite the single version being remixed by the Freemasons and her current UK tour. Singles featuring Kylie’s vocals (Visionmasters’ ‘Keep On Pumpin It’ and Towa Tei’s ‘German Bold Italic’) hit numbers 49 and 63 respectively, but this is the first time in UK chart history that Kylie has failed to make the top 30 with a single of her own and only the second time she’s missed the top 20. But it’s all happened because Parlophone stupidly decided AGAINST releasing a CD single. Surely this must be a lesson to record companies that people are clearly still walking into CD stores to buy CD singles. With a CD single release, this track could’ve stood a chance in the UK chart! As we’ve said before, Warner Music Australia… It’s over to you. Remixes, b-sides and unique cover art please. Even a limited edition single would do…

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Comments

  1. Poor Kylie – her UK record label have really handled the whole X project very badly.
    I mean are they stupid? Kylie has a huge fan base, her fans buy every single that is released for their collections – why on earth did they think they could get away with this.
    Kylie’s local label Warner have also handled things badly – a physical release of The One with remixes, non album tracks will no doubt get local fans back onside – fans which are not happy with Warner, from the no local release of White Diamond to the poorly promoted In My Arms single.

  2. This chart placing is quite impressive for the 4th single off ‘X’ and to be download only, but it would have been a higher debut if there was a physical format, maybe Parlophone wanted this to happen to justify her possible leaving of the label? it’s all very All Saints ‘Chick Fit’