Minogue had been an Australian soap opera star in her teens before she turned her talents to the microphone. She had just turned 20 when Kylie was released, and it immediately established her as a huge pop star, not just in her native Australia, but around the world.
While Kylie only reached #53 on the Billboard album chart, it topped the album charts in the UK and New Zealand and reached the Top 10 on seven other album charts. It ended up being the #1 album on the UK's year-end album chart for 1988 and the #5 album on the UK's decade-end album chart for the '80s.
The first single released from the album was "I Should Be So Lucky," a catchy little dance-pop song that was a worldwide smash. It topped the pop charts in Australia, Europe (the European Hot 100 Singles chart), Finland, Hong Kong, Ireland, Switzerland, the UK, and West Germany, and it cracked the Top 10 on the pop charts in six other countries (and was Minogue's first Top 40 hit on the Billboard Hot 100, hitting #28).
If you're thinking to yourself, "man, that song could have been a hit for Rick Astley," you're not totally wrong. It was written by Mike Stock, Matt Aitken, and Pete Waterman -- the same powerhouse songwriting team that wrote much of Astley's breakthrough 1987 album Whenever You Need Somebody, including the hits "Never Gonna Give You Up" and "Together Forever."
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