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Kylie Minogue and Six60 set chart records

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Newstalk ZB,
Publish Date
Sun, 15 Nov 2020, 10:46AM
Kylie Minogue performs on The Graham Norton Show. (Photo / Getty)
Kylie Minogue performs on The Graham Norton Show. (Photo / Getty)

Kylie Minogue and Six60 set chart records

Author
Newstalk ZB,
Publish Date
Sun, 15 Nov 2020, 10:46AM

Kylie Minogue will be feeling lucky, lucky, lucky this week, after setting a stunning new record on the UK Charts.

Minogue has become the first solo female artist to have a number one album in the UK across five decades, after her latest album, Disco, went straight to number one this week. 

Minogue has managed at least one number album a decade in the UK since her debut in the 1980s. 

Locally, Six60 is celebrating a record-breaking feat of their own.

The Kiwi band's 2015 album Six60 II The Colours Album has never left the New Zealand Top 40 album charts since it's debut - and this week overtook Pink Floyd's Dark Side of the Moon for the longest stretch in the sharts. defeated a long-held record by Pink Floyd

Dark Side of the Moon has spent a total of 297 weeks in the charts since its release in 1973. Now, Six60's album has spent 298 weeks - achieving the feat in consecutive weeks in less than six years, another record to top Pink Floyd. 

Flicks.co.nz editor Steve Newall joined Francesca Rudkin to discuss the records.

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