Kylie Minogue debutes at #19 on Billboard 200 - 1834 - Gay Lesbian Bi Trans News

( New York, NY — July 14th, 2010 ) — International Pop Icon Kylie Minogue returns to the Billboard 200 this week as her 11th studio album Aphrodite ( EMI's Astralwerks Records ) debuts at #19, marking her highest U.S. chart position since 2002's Fever. It is top 10 in such major markets as New York, Los Angeles, San Francisco, DC, Seattle,Miami, Chicago and Boston. Aphroditebecame Kylie's fifth #1 album in the UK, hitting the top spot a full 22 years to the week since her debut album Kylie entered the chart. The album also made Kylie the first solo artist in the history of the UKcharts to have a #1 album in four different decades. Around the globe Aphroditedebuted in the top 10 in thirteen different countries including #1 in Mexico, #2 in Australia, Switzerland and Spain, #3 in Austria, France and Germany and top 5 in Belgium, Holland, Ireland and Taiwan.

"I've been completely overwhelmed by the reaction to 'Aphrodite' around the world and to hear that the album has got to number 19 in the U.S. is the most amazing news. I am ecstatic!" said Kylie.

Aphrodite sees Kylie celebrate her dance-floor roots and features Stuart Price as Executive Producer. The list of songwriters includes Kylie, Stuart Price, Calvin Harris, the Scissor Sisters' Jake Shears, Nerina Pallot, Swedish House Mafia, NERVO and Keane's Tim Rice-Oxley. Critics and fans around the globe have been praising the album as one of Kylie's best. The first single "All The Lovers" has been heating up airwaves and dancefloors around world since the start of summer. It reached #1 on the UK airplay chart and is currently #6 on the U.S. Billboard dance chart. The Joseph Kahn ( Lady Gaga, Britney Spears, Katy Perry ) directed video premiered on MTV's LOGO last month and is also being played on Music Choice. Kylie recently graced the June/July cover of Blackbook Magazine and is currently on the August cover of Out Magazine which hit newsstands this week.

In the Fall of 2009 Kylie stormed America to sell out her first ever North American tour. The 6-city tour kicked off in Oakland and made stops in Las Vegas, Los Angeles, Chicago, Toronto and New York, wowing fans and critics alike at each stop. Entertainment Weekly called the show a "two-hour post-disco fantasia of strobe, bass, and glitter—an all-out spectacle." The New York Times claimed "The concert ( was ) efficient, clobbering, expensive, generous…close to an alternate reality." Kylie treated her U.S. fans with a new song "Better Than Today" which she played for the first time during the tour. Kylie is expected to make an announcement about a 2011 world tour soon.

Over the course of her extraordinary 20-plus-year-career, Kylie Minogue has been a global force in pop music and is one of the world's most successful female artists with more than 60 million albums sold worldwide, 50 hit singles including the U.S. Billboard dance-chart toppers "Can't Get You Our of My Head," "Love At First Sight," "Slow," and the Grammy-Award winning "Come Into My World." She has received countless awards and accolades including an OBE from the Queen, 8 sold-out world tours including the KylieX2008 tour which traveled to 21 countries throughout Europe, South America, Dubai, Asia, New Zealand and Australia. Minogue has released ten studio albums, three live CDs, eight live concert DVD's, plus her Greatest Hits, Ultimate Kylie double album and Boombox The Remix Album 2000-2008. Kylie has her own successful bed linen line "Kylie at Home" and has released 6 fragrances, the latest "Couture" for women and "Inverse" for men. Her 7th fragrance "Pink Sparkle" was released this month.

For more on Kylie Minogue, including news updates, photos, streaming audio and video, and downloads, please visit www.kylie.com .

Follow Kylie on twitter at www.twitter.com/kylieminogue