{"id":193064,"date":"2025-12-20T07:30:06","date_gmt":"2025-12-20T07:30:06","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/193064\/"},"modified":"2025-12-20T07:30:06","modified_gmt":"2025-12-20T07:30:06","slug":"kylie-minogue-scores-first-uk-christmas-no-1-with-xmas-hit","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/193064\/","title":{"rendered":"Kylie Minogue scores first UK Christmas No 1 with XMAS hit"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"vUWuwjCGukMuO\" style=\"display:none\">Meanwhile, Minogue recently confessed she suffered \u201creally bad migraines\u201d while making her Kylie Christmas (Fully Wrapped) album.<\/p>\n<p class=\"vUWuwjCGukMuO\" style=\"display:none\">The chart-topping pop star returned to the studio to revamp her 2015 festive record Kylie Christmas and add four new tunes to the track list \u2013 but she battled terrible headaches during the sessions.<\/p>\n<p class=\"vUWuwjCGukMuO\" style=\"display:none\">Speaking to NME, Minogue said: \u201cWhen I listen to the songs now, it feels really good. It felt like Christmas, even if I was in the studio in tears sometimes because I was having really bad migraines.\u201d<\/p>\n<p class=\"vUWuwjCGukMuO\" style=\"display:none\">She also admitted she hoped XMAS would top the British charts.<\/p>\n<p class=\"vUWuwjCGukMuO\" style=\"display:none\">\u201cIt would be amazing, but I honestly did not think about that when we first went into this promo. I\u2019ve been so focused on everything else, wrapping everything up and all the other mechanics, but now that we\u2019re here &#8230;<\/p>\n<p class=\"vUWuwjCGukMuO\" style=\"display:none\">\u201cIt would be nice. But also I\u2019m cool with it regardless because it\u2019s a very coveted spot and crazy things happen around Christmas, so I don\u2019t think it is that predictable.\u201d<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Meanwhile, Minogue recently confessed she suffered \u201creally bad migraines\u201d while making her Kylie Christmas (Fully Wrapped) album. The&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":193065,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[8],"tags":[21693,18399,156,1888,3594,22081,27247,111,139,7805,69,14729,1613,102,98090],"class_list":["post-193064","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-entertainment","tag-achieved","tag-christmas","tag-entertainment","tag-first","tag-hit","tag-kylie","tag-minogue","tag-new-zealand","tag-newzealand","tag-no","tag-nz","tag-scores","tag-uk","tag-with","tag-xmas"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/193064","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=193064"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/193064\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/193065"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=193064"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=193064"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=193064"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}