She’s sold over 80 million records during her lifetime, yet Kylie Minogue hasn’t had a Top 20 hit since 2014. That was until yesterday when her latest single “Padam Padam”, a gloriously synthy dance banger perfectly primed for the TikTok generation, snagged the top spot on the UK Big Top 40.
It’s now her biggest selling song since 2004, and is her first entry into the US Billboard Hot 100 in 19 years. As a result, the Australian singer is being hailed the “queen of comebacks” — with everyone who assumed the 55-year-old’s attention was solely on her multi-million-pound wine company being proven wrong. That includes major youth-focused radio channels BBC Radio 1 and Capital FM who didn’t give the track any air time when it first was release on May 18, believing that it would only appeal primarily to older audiences.
