Kylie Minogue's Tension becomes UK's best-selling single of the week

Freelance Journalist Adam George  -8th /09/23

Pop Princess Kylie Minogue has proved she's more successful and relevant than ever in 2023, as Tension becomes the UK's best-selling single of the week, and Kylie's second Top 20 single of the year, entering at Number 19. 

  

The single which was produced by Kylie's long-term collaborator Biffco (Spice Girls) and with co-writing credits from Kamille (who has written Number 1 hits for Little Mix and The Saturdays) Tension is a shapeshifting and hook-filled electronic pop song, not entirely unlike Girls Aloud's work with Xenomania, where each song sounds like a few different ideas, hooks and melodies stitched together to make a Frankenstein's monster of a track that becomes better than the sum of its parts.

Tension has become the singers 53rd UK Top 40 single, and her second Top 20 hit of the year following the success of Padam Padam. 

Tension also ends the week at Number 1 on both the Official SIngles Downloads Chart and Official Physical Singles Chart.   

Tension is, of course, the title track of Kylie's forthcoming 16th (!) studio album, which will be dropping September 22.