from the album Kylie
Platinum (UK)
| "Locomotion" (1987) |
"I Should Be So Lucky" (1987) |
"Got to Be Certain" (1988) |
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| Single by Kylie Minogue from the album Kylie |
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| Released | 29 December 1987 | ||||||||||||||||||||||
| Format | CD single, Vinyl single, Cassette single | ||||||||||||||||||||||
| Recorded | 1987 in London, England | ||||||||||||||||||||||
| Genre | Pop, dance | ||||||||||||||||||||||
| Length | 3:24 | ||||||||||||||||||||||
| Label | PWL, Mushroom | ||||||||||||||||||||||
| Writer(s) | Stock Aitken Waterman | ||||||||||||||||||||||
| Producer | Stock Aitken Waterman | ||||||||||||||||||||||
| Certification | Platinum (ARIA) Platinum (UK) |
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"I Should Be So Lucky" is a pop–dance song performed by Australian singer Kylie Minogue. The song was written and produced by Stock Aitken Waterman for Minogue's debut album Kylie (1988).
The song was released as the album's second single in December 1987. It was a commercial success, reaching the top ten on the majority of the charts it entered, and number one in the United Kingdom and Australia. The song became the highest selling single in Australia in 1988 and was named "Record of the Year" by the Japanese Phonographic Record Association.[1]
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After the success of her debut single "Locomotion" in Australia, Minogue traveled to London to work with Stock, Aitken and Waterman, a successful British writing and production team. They knew little of Minogue and had forgotten that she was arriving; as a result, they wrote "I Should Be So Lucky" in forty minutes while she waited outside the recording studio.[2] Mike Stock wrote the lyrics for the song in response to what he had learned about Minogue prior to her arrival. He believed that although she was a successful soap star in Australia and very talented, there must be something wrong with her and figured that she must be unlucky in love.[2] Minogue recorded the song in less than an hour, which Stock attributes to her good ear for music and her quick memorization skills. After Minogue finished the recording session she returned home to Australia to continue work on the soap opera, Neighbours.[2]
"I Should Be So Lucky" is written in the common verse-chorus form and features instrumentation from keyboards and guitars.[3]
The music video for "I Should Be So Lucky" was directed by Chris Langman and filmed in late 1987 at Channel 7 Studios in Melbourne, Australia.[4] The video features Minogue walking through her home, with scenes of her dancing in front of a colourful chalkboard background intercut throughout. It presented a cute, wholesome, young "girl-next-door" image of Minogue to the public, with scenes of her giggling and making funny faces to the camera.
The video premiered in the UK in January 1988.[5] The complete version of "I Should Be So Lucky" featured in the music video has been released commercially through multiple VHS and DVD collections. Its most recent inclusion is on the companion DVD to her second greatest hits album Ultimate Kylie in 2004.
The British satirical programme Spitting Image made a send-up of I Should Be So Lucky in which Minogue is depicted as being brought to life in a way similar to Frankenstein's monster in an old 1930s movie. The action shifts between the laboratory to a apartment similar to that of the original video. The implication is that she is a "creation" of the producers.
The song also pocks fun at her performance in the Australian soap opera Neighbours in which she played Charlene Mitchell, later Robinson.
It begins with Minogue being brought to life by a mad scientist and singing:
I'm the girl from Neighbours,
I'm a bit part in the soap.
But now I'm really famous
With producers known as hope.
...
My voice is just as subtle
As my playing of Charlene.
But there's no disadvantage
'Cause it's all done by machine.
Stock, Aitken and Waterman are combined together as a large tape player providing creature-Minogue's voice which at one point is distorted to sound like Rick Astley[6]
"I Should Be So Lucky" entered the UK Singles Chart on 9 January 1988 at number ninety, before rising to number one. It maintained the number one position for five weeks, becoming the first single to do so in ten years.[7] In Australia, the song reached number one on the singles chart and became the country's highest selling single of 1988.[1] The song also reached number one in Finland, Germany, Israel and Japan.[8] In 1989, the track was awarded "Record of the Year" by the Japanese Phonographic Record Association.[1]
"I Should Be So Lucky" performed moderately well in North America. In the United States, the song peaked at number twenty-eight on the Billboard Hot 100, becoming Minogue's first US top forty release.[7] The track reached number ten on the Hot Dance Club Play chart and number thirty-two on the Hot Dance Singles Sales chart.[9] In Canada, "I Should Be So Lucky" reached number twenty-five on the singles chart.[8]
These are the formats and track listings of major single releases of "I Should Be So Lucky".
The following people contributed to "I Should Be So Lucky":[3]
| Chart (1987/88) | Peak position |
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| Australian Singles Chart[7] | 1 |
| Austrian Singles Chart[10] | 4 |
| French Singles Chart[11] | 4 |
| German Singles Chart[12] | 1 |
| Hong Kong Singles Chart[7] | 1 |
| Israeli Singles Chart[7] | 1 |
| Italian Singles Chart[7] | 1 |
| Japanese Singles Chart | 1 |
| Norwegian Singles Chart[13] | 5 |
| Swedish Singles Chart[14] | 13 |
| South Africa Singles Chart | 1 |
| Swiss Singles Chart[15] | 1 |
| UK Singles Chart[7] | 1 |
| Ireland | 1 |
| US Billboard Hot 100[16] | 28 |
In 1992, the Egyptian pop singer Simon recorded a cover of the song with new lyrics in Arabic titled "Bahibak Aawy".[17] In September 2007, a cover version of "I Should Be So Lucky" appeared on the album Dolce Vita by Spanish singer Soraya Arnelas.[18] Also that year, Japanese duo mihimaru GT released a hip pop cover version of the song. It was released as a double A-side single, along with the song "Ai Kotoba", in Japan in November 2007.[19]
| Preceded by "I Think We're Alone Now" by Tiffany |
UK number one single February 14, 1988 - March 13, 1988 |
Succeeded by "Don't Turn Around" by Aswad |
| Preceded by "Get Outta My Dreams, Get into My Car" by Billy Ocean |
Irish number-one single February 27, 1988 - March 5, 1988 |
Succeeded by "Together Forever" by Rick Astley |
| Preceded by "(I've Had) The Time of My Life" by Bill Medley and Jennifer Warnes |
Australian number-one single March 14, 1988 - April 18, 1988 |
Succeeded by "Get Outta My Dreams, Get Into My Car" by Billy Ocean |
| Preceded by "Tell It to My Heart" by Taylor Dayne |
German number-one single April 8, 1988 - April 15, 1988 |
Succeeded by "Heart" by Pet Shop Boys |
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