Kylie Minogue Albums Discography
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Kylie Minogue Kylie Ann Minogue (; born 28 May 1968) is an Australian singer, songwriter and actress. She is the highest-selling female Australian artist of all time, having sold over 80 million records worldwide. She has been recognised for reinve ...
has released fifteen
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s, thirteen
compilation album A compilation album comprises Album#Tracks, tracks, which may be previously released or unreleased, usually from several separate recordings by either one or several Performing arts#Performers, performers. If by one artist, then generally the tr ...
s, nine
live album An album is a collection of audio recordings issued on compact disc (CD), Phonograph record, vinyl, audio tape, or another medium such as Digital distribution#Music, digital distribution. Albums of recorded sound were developed in the early ...
s, ten
extended play An extended play record, usually referred to as an EP, is a musical recording that contains more tracks than a single but fewer than an album or LP record.
s (EP), eleven
remix album A remix album is an album consisting of remixes or rerecorded versions of an artist's earlier released material. The first act who employed the format was American singer-songwriter Harry Nilsson (''Aerial Pandemonium Ballet'', 1971). As of 2007 ...
s and two
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s. With estimated career sales of over 80 million albums worldwide as of July 2020, Minogue is recognized as the highest-selling female Australian recording artist of all time. Referred as the “Princess of Pop” by various media outlets, she has scored seven number-one albums on the
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, the most for any female Australian artist. In the United Kingdom, she holds the record for being the first woman to score a number 1 on the
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in five consecutive decades, from the 1980s to the 2020s. Minogue signed a recording contract with
Mushroom Records Mushroom Records was an Australian flagship record label, founded in 1972 in Melbourne. It published and distributed many successful Australian artists and expanded internationally, until it was merged with Festival Records in 1998. Festival Mu ...
in early 1987, and released her self-titled debut album the following year. Written and produced by
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, the album was distributed in the UK by Waterman's own label,
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. The album spent six weeks at number one on the UK Albums Chart, eventually became the fifth highest-selling album of the decade. It has sold over 5 million copies worldwide. Her second album, '' Enjoy Yourself'' (1989) debuted at number one in the UK and became the sixth best-selling album of the year. She subsequently released '' Rhythm of Love'' (1990) and ''
Let's Get to It ''Let's Get to It'' is the fourth studio album by Australian recording artist Kylie Minogue. It was the final studio album with Pete Waterman Limited (PWL), being released by the record label in the United Kingdom on 14 October 1991. Mus ...
'' (1991), both reached the top 20 in the UK and Australia. Her final release under PWL Records, ''
Greatest Hits A greatest hits album or best-of album is a type of compilation album that collects popular and commercially successful songs by a particular artist or band. While greatest hits albums are typically supported by the artist, they can also be crea ...
'' (1992), was her third number-one entry in the UK. During her years under
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, Minogue released the self-titled album in 1994 and ''
Impossible Princess ''Impossible Princess'' (briefly retitled ''Kylie Minogue'' in Europe) is the sixth studio album by Australian singer Kylie Minogue, released on 22 October 1997, by Deconstruction, BMG and Mushroom Records. The singer asserted greater crea ...
'' in 1997. Both albums peaked inside the top ten in the UK and Australia. After moving to
Parlophone Parlophone Records Limited (also known as Parlophone Records and Parlophone) is a German–British record label founded in Germany in 1896 by the Carl Lindström Company as Parlophon. The British branch of the label was founded on 8 August 192 ...
in 1999, she earned her first number-one album in her home country with ''
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'' (2000). Minogue scored the best-selling album of her career with ''
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'' (2001), which sold over 6 million copies worldwide as of May 2008. It was the thirtieth best-selling album globally in 2002, according to the
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. Her next releases under Parlophone were studio albums ''
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'' (2003) and '' X'' (2007), as well as the
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''
Ultimate Kylie ''Ultimate Kylie'' is the second major greatest hits album by Australian singer Kylie Minogue, and her first greatest hits released under her contract with Parlophone, her record company between 1999–2015. The compilation was released in many d ...
'' (2004)—all reached platinum status in Australia and the UK. In 2010, ''
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'' debuted at number one in the UK, making Minogue the first female artist to have number one albums in four consecutive decades. In 2012, Minogue released the greatest hits album ''
The Best of Kylie Minogue ''The Best of Kylie Minogue'' is a 2012 greatest hits album by Australian recording artist Kylie Minogue. It was released on 28 May 2012 by EMI to commemorate the twenty-fifth anniversary of Minogue's recording career, as part of her K25 celebrat ...
'' and the orchestral album '' The Abbey Road Sessions'' to celebrate her twenty-fifth year in the music industry. Released during her short-lived contract with entertainment company
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, ''
Kiss Me Once ''Kiss Me Once'' is the twelfth studio album by Australian singer Kylie Minogue, released on 14 March 2014 by Parlophone. It is her first studio release since 2010's ''Aphrodite'', and marks Minogue's first and only album with Roc Nation, handle ...
'' (2014) became her fourth number-one album in Australia. Minogue collaborated with record producers
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and
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in two experimental EPs, '' Sleepwalker'' (2014) and ''
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'' (2015), before releasing her final record under Parlophone—the
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''
Kylie Christmas ''Kylie Christmas'' is the thirteenth studio album, and first Christmas album, by Australian singer Kylie Minogue. It was released on 13 November 2015 by Parlophone. Following the release of her twelfth studio album, ''Kiss Me Once'', Minogue ...
'' (2015). The album was re-released in the following year with additional tracks, retitled ''Kylie Christmas: Snow Queen Edition''. In 2017, Minogue signed a global recording contract with
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and a joint-deal with Mushroom Music Labels in distributing her albums in Australia and New Zealand. Her subsequent releases under BMG were studio albums ''
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'' (2018) and ''
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'' (2020), as well as the compilation album '' Step Back in Time: The Definitive Collection'' (2019)—all debuted at number one in both Australia and the UK. ''Golden'' and ''Disco'' are among the fastest-selling vinyl albums of the century in the UK, according to the
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in March 2021.


Studio albums


Reissue albums


Compilation albums


Live albums


Remix albums


Box sets


Extended plays


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