After Kylie Minogue album hits No.1 in the UK and Australia, artist’s global streams may be the bigger story for BMG

It’s been a jubilant few days for BMG‘s recorded music workforce – after Kylie Minogue’s newest album, Rigidity, hit the No.1 spot in both the UK and her native Australia on Friday (September 29).

It was Minogue’s third consecutive No.1 album on BMG, touchdown 53,000 sales-equivalent items in its debut UK chart week – outselling the remainder of the High 5 mixed.

But pushed by the not-insignificant hit standing of Rigidity’s lead single – Padam Padam – there’s a much less market-specific story to contemplate right here, too.

Rigidity’s world streams as of Sunday (October 1), says BMG, stood at roughly 170 million.

On the identical level post-release, Kylie Minogue’s earlier album, Disco – launched lower than three years in the past – had amassed simply 25 million world streams.

“We’re at almost seven instances the variety of world streams we had then, “ says BMG President Repertoire & Advertising and marketing UK Alistair Norbury. “Our key focus for Kylie [with Tension] has been on constructing her streaming viewers”.

Going hand-in-hand with this technique has been a concerted drive to construct Kylie’s worldwide presence. BMG says that the No.1 marketplace for Rigidity is anticipated to not be the UK or the artist’s native Australia, however the US.

Certainly, on Monday (October 2), including to its UK and Australia chart efficiency, Rigidity formally landed at No.21 on the Billboard 200 within the US – the artist’s highest inserting on that chart in over a decade.

Thanks largely to the pre-album success of Padam Padam, tracks from Rigidity within the US have already racked up greater than 45 million streams (throughout audio and video providers), in response to Luminate information.

“This marketing campaign exhibits that it’s mistaken to imagine, as many do, that established artists don’t stream.”

Alistair Norbury, BMG

That’s greater than half the dimensions of the lifetime streaming determine (83.7m) attracted by DISCO within the US thus far, following its launch in November 2020.

Padam Padam itself has already secured over 35 million streams within the US thus far, per Luminate information.

A big quantity of credit score for Kylie’s world streaming success with Rigidity, then, could be attributed to Padam Padam, however Alistair Norbury additionally credit Minogue’s “unstinting engagement with our groups all over the world”.

“This marketing campaign exhibits that it’s mistaken to imagine, as many do, that established artists don’t stream,” he provides.

“It may be an extended haul. It requires the sort of dedication Kylie has demonstrated and a label with a long-term perspective like BMG. However we’re proving that it’s attainable even for artists who first got here of age lengthy earlier than streaming to construct a viable streaming enterprise.”

“We’re proving that it’s attainable even for artists who first got here of age lengthy earlier than streaming to construct a viable streaming enterprise.”

Alistair Norbury, BMG

Rigidity’s No.1 chart efficiency arrived in the identical month that BMG introduced it will be going ‘direct’ on distribution for its personal streaming releases sooner or later.

Since 2017, BMG’s digital releases have usually been distributed by Warner Music Group‘s ADA. That settlement will come to an end towards the end of this year.Music Enterprise Worldwide