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Originally posted by Dream
Nooooooooooo 
How could that happen?
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How, you ask? Let's find out.
Average Score:
9.209
Highest Score:
10 [Ace Reject, SupremeGoddess, Venus, Dream, True Skarlet, Patrick, berberocka, KoolAidKing, adrianbeane, Classic Mainstream, Beatfreak, huh, Vato, GeezusHaberdash, vonno, supaspaz, Rolland, Swaggie, @michael, Ra2, YoYo, Clump, YSL]
Lowest Score:
6 [PopBoi]
Someone's trash is someone else's treasure. Sophie Ellis-Bextor had first dibs on this Cathy Dennis/Rob Davis co-write, but either she or her people passed on it. It landed at Parlophone, and was summarily sent to Kylie's A&R. She had just completed and released
Light Years, but knew something special when she heard it; a few days after she was played the demo, she could not get it out of her head. She loved it so much she previewed it in skeletal form at her On a Night Like This tour.
It was sent to British radio in mid-July, and at first radio programmers/DJs were put off by it; it sounded nothing like what was in the charts in the summer of 2001. But they too could not let go of it, and quickly hammered it. The song was released the week of September 8th, 2001, and a lot happened. She was going up against Victoria Beckham, who was releasing her first truly solo single (ironically, her collaboration with Dane Bowers -
Out of Your Mind was beaten to the top spot a year earlier by Sophie's collaboration with Spiller,
Groovejet (If This Ain't Love), which Cathy Dennis co-wrote), and who naturally assumed she would get the number one. During the week, 9/11 happened, and the effects were felt worldwide. Everyone assumed that no one would be in shops buying singles.
Kylie broke the record for most singles sold in one week, and outsold Victoria 6-1. Kylie stayed at number one for four weeks. The song went to number one in Australia, eventually going triple platinum. The song went to number one in New Zealand, becoming Kylie's first number one there in her career. It went to number one in EVERY MAJOR EUROPEAN COUNTRY. (Except Finland. It peaked top five there.) More amazingly, through word of mouth, in 2002, it became Kylie's first top ten - or Hot 100, for that matter - hit in the US in fourteen years.
The song's brilliance was recognized when the decade ended, as it placed 74 and 83 on two different lists done by
NME, 37 on
Pitchfork's decade round up, and number three on
Slant's decade coverage.
Somehow, that wasn't enough for a Grammy nomination.
cgyomh didn't make top 5. 
