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Mostly recorded at home during lockdown, her
15th studio album also notched up the best opening week for any
UK 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 "Neighbours", 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.
"When Kylie first came into the studio, she sat in the corner in
the back crocheting and Matt Aitken and I both thought, well,
'God, I hope she's got some kind of sparkle'... But we got her
behind the mic ...the switch flicked and 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 has lasted in the business - just to survive is an
achievement. But she's doing brilliant."
(Reporting By Sarah Mills; Editing by John Stonestreet)
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