Kylie Minogue - Impossible Princess

January 2004
Slow is released to U.S. radio, becoming the most-added track to U.S. radio in its first week.

24th January - Kylie performs at the NRJ Awards in Cannes.

25th January - Kylie performs Red Blooded Woman at the NRJ Awards in Sweden, where she also collected the award for 'Best Dance Act'.

Kylie announces a performance at G-A-Y to take place on 28th February. She says of the show "I am so excited to be performing once again at G-A-Y. There’s an atmosphere there that is unlike anywhere else. Last time I performed there they had a huge clock counting down the minutes until the show and by the time I came on the crowd was at fever pitch. It's a special venue for me and I have some amazing memories of gigs gone by. So many of the audience go to great lengths to make special outfits and they know the lyrics to the songs better than I do!"

Kylie releases her first ever doll! The Barbie-esque fully poseable figure comes in two different outfits - the Silvanemesis bra-top, skirt and boots from the Fever Tour, and the short red D&G dress from the 2002 World Music Awards. An excited Kylie comments on her official website: "For years I have been asked about a Kylie doll, well she has finally arrived and I am delighted! I hope fans will agree it was worth the wait as we worked very hard to get every detail right. Now that she is here I am looking forward to making more dress up outfits and accessories for you and dolly in the future." The dolls prove hugely popular with fans and inspire a competition on Kylie.com to photograph KylieDoll on her travels around the world...

February 2004
Kylie travels to the U.S. for a short promotional tour for the Body Language album.

6th February - at the Musicares Person of the Year Award dinner in Los Angeles, Kylie pays a tribute to Sting by performing Every Breath You Take.

8th February - Kylie wins her first ever Grammy award for 'Best Dance Recording' for Come Into My World.

10th February - Body Language is released in the U.S.

11th February - Red Blooded Woman (Narcotic Thrust Mix) debuts at No.1 on the UK Upfront Club Chart

14th February - in New York's Avenue Club, Kylie appears at the launch party for the soundtrack CD of the hit make-over show Queer Eye For The Straight Guy, in which she has a cameo appearance. Kylie's set takes in Come Into My World, Red Blooded Woman, The Loco-motion, Can't Get You Out Of My Head, Slow and Love At First Sight. As an impromptu encore at the end of her set, Kylie leads the audience in a quick blast of Your Disco Needs You. Her U.S. success continues as Slow promo remixes hit No.1 on the Billboard Dance Chart.

28th February - Kylie performs a spectacular show at G-A-Y, with a set-list that spans her entire career. Her set includes Made In Heaven, Red Blooded Woman, What Do I Have To Do/Confide In Me/Too Far, Locomotion, Chocolate, Can't Get You Out Of My Head, Slow, On A Night Like This, Love At First Sight and an acapella rendition of Better The Devil You Know. Photos of her Cabaret-style image and routines make several of the national newspapers the following day.

March 2004
1st March - Red Blooded Woman is released and enters the UK chart at No.5. The single is backed with the much sought-after Chemical Brothers Remix of Slow, previously only available on a promo yellow vinyl 12". The video for Red Blooded Woman was filmed at the end of 2003 in LA and was directed by Jake Nova, who was responsible for the hugely successful clip for Beyonce's Crazy In Love. In the promo, Kylie is featured wandering through a traffic jam, swinging on the back of a petrol tanker and climbing into a tight red dress in the back of a car.

Slow is nominated for two prestigious Ivor Novello Awards for 'Best Contemporary Song' and 'International Hit of the Year'.

13th March - Kylie is awarded 'Outstanding Contribution to Pop' at the Bravo Supershow Awards in Hanover, Germany, where she performs Red Blooded Woman

April 2004
28th April - the UK's Phonographic Performance Ltd confirm Kylie to be the most played female artist on British radio, and the fourth most played artist overall.

May 2004
5th & 6th May - the video for Kylie's next single Chocolate is filmed in London, directed by Dawn Shadforth

Kylie contributes to a multimedia project called 'Lyric' whereby various artists were given a Motorola video call handset and asked to make a short film to illustrate a song of their choice. Kylie, together with photographer Nick Knight and Liz Neal choose Barry Manilow's Copacabana. Her name was Kylie, she was a showgirl...

June 2004
9th June - Slow wins 'Best Pop Video' at the Music Week Creative and Design Awards

Kylie performs a special half hour set as part of the lavish wedding celebrations of Amit Bhatia and Vanisha Mittal, daughter of Indian billionaire Lakshmi Mittal, just outside Paris. The Indian Telegraph report that she was paid $520,000 for the private show.

28th June - release of Chocolate, a lavish, Eastern-influenced production with breathy, dreamy vocals and the third single to be taken from Body Language. For the single release, Kylie completely re-records the vocals, after admitting that the original recording of the song for the album was one of the hardest she had to do. An extremely stylish video inspired by MGM musicals of the 30s accompanies the song, which reaches No.6 on the UK chart.

July 2004
Kylie travels to Melbourne for the launch of the latest LoveKylie lingerie collection. She also films a cameo appearance for an episode of hit Aussie sit-com Kath and Kim.

12th July - Release of Body Language Live, the DVD of Kylie's Money Can't Buy show recorded the previous November. The DVD also includes the video clips to the Body Language singles, as well as a behind the scenes documentary, including footage of Kylie rehearsing, on location at photo sessions in the South of France, and shooting of the stunning stage backdrop films. It debuts at No.4 in the UK, No.9 in Spain and an impressive No.2 in the German charts.

August 2004
Kylie spends some time in the studio recording a selection of electro-pop tracks with the Xenomania production team for a forthcoming Greatest hits compilation. She also teams up with Jake Shears and Babydaddy of the Scissor Sisters to write and record tracks for the project.

September 2004
Whilst speculation and rumours of forthcoming single and album projects run rife with her fans, two unreleased Kylie tracks from the Body Language sessions are leaked onto the internet, I'm Just Here For The Music and the very American Life-esque My Image Unlimited.

13th September - release of a budget compilation CD and DVD as part of BMG's Artist Collection series. The CD compiles various deConstruction tracks and features a modern art cartoon collage of Kylie on its cover, by artist Hanoch Piven.

Plans are revealed for the release of Ultimate Kylie, a greatest hits compilation bringing together singles from the whole of Kylie's career, together with two brand new tracks. Of the retrospective collection, to be released in November, Kylie comments: "Since my first hit, I can’t believe how quickly time has passed. This collection is very dear to me and holds a lifetime of memories. There is nothing like time to give you a sense of perspective and I hope the listener gets as much enjoyment out of these tracks as I do. I feel lucky to have had the opportunity to experiment throughout the years and that my fans have embraced the need in me to try new approaches. I am just as excited about the new tracks featured here as I am about all the others on the record. At this point in my career, I am happy to celebrate the past and look forward to the future!".

October 2004
13th October - Kylie announces plans for a 2005 tour. Showgirl - The Greatest Hits Tour is set to kick off in Glasgow in March 2005, before taking in England, Ireland, parts of mainland Europe and eventually Australia. Initial dates sell out immediately, bringing web servers to a virtual standstill and causing a major UK telephone exchange to overload!

Promotion for Kylie's brand new single, I Believe In You begins with a performance at the Nordic Music Awards in Oslo. The track, a driving electro tune with almost spoken-word verse and a soaring chorus, in the same vein as Light Years was co-written and produced by Jake Shears and Babydaddy of the Scissor Sisters. The track soon becomes A-listed on many radio stations, becoming a sizeable airplay hit weeks before its commercial release.

Ant & Dec's Saturday Night Takeaway 2004

November 2004
6th November - TV promo for Ultimate Kylie kicks off with a special performance of Spinning Around on Ant & Dec's Saturday Night Takeaway in the UK

19th November - Kylie performs Spinning Around and Step Back In Time on the BBC's annual Children In Need night.

20th November - performance of Better The Devil You Know on Top Of The Pops Saturday show

21st November - Kylie attends the Smash Hits Poll Winners Party. She performs Can't Get You Out Of My Head and I Believe In You at the bash where, as one of the most established artists to attend she receives a 'Smash Hits Lifetime Achievement' award.

22nd November - "The Ultimate Pop Collection From The Ultimate Pop Artist" - release of Ultimate Kylie, a two-disc set including practically all Kylie's singles from her entire career, plus I Believe In You and the storming Xenomania-produced Giving You Up. The compilation sells an astounding 83,000 copies in the UK in the first week of release, entering the charts at No.4. Similar success is repeated in Australia where the album debuts at No.5.

23rd November - Kylie is honoured at the Onda Awards Ceremony in Spain where she is presented with the 'Special Jury Award' in recognition of her incredible career and contribution to popular music.

European promotion forges ahead with performances on France's Hit Machine (24th), Germany's TV Total (25th, where she gives an impromptu burst of Dilemma with fellow guest star, rapper Nelly), and back to Paris for Star Academy (26th)!

25th November - Kylie's much-anticipated appearance on comedy show Kath & Kim airs in Australia. Kylie appears as Kim's daughter Epponnee in a 'flash-forward' dream sequence with a tongue-in-cheek nod to Charlene's wedding in Neighbours.

December 2004
6th December - release of I Believe In You in the UK. With remixes from Mylo and Skylark the single storms into the UK charts at No.2, climbing to the No.1 position in the UK Airplay Charts where it remains for several weeks. Meanwhile, Ultimate Kylie is certified platinum, with sales approaching 300,000.

Kylie web forum SayHey goes into meltdown with another unreleased track surfacing. The tune, (Everything) I Know, was one written and recorded with the Scissor Sisters and is still mostly in its demo form, much to the annoyance of the Scissor's frontman Jake Shears... "Pretty depressing to see your hard work displayed before it's ready. I think it's a really special song, and is something wintery and melancholy. I don't know if anyone's got it up on their sites or anything, but I would really appreciate it if anyone's got it up to take it down. and if you've already got an mp3, please don't share it. It's just not meant to be heard yet..."

Kylie is once again nominated for the Grammy awards, again in the Best Dance Recording category, this time for Slow.

12th December - Kylie performs three tracks at the Top Of The Pops Christmas Party in London's Shepherd's Bush - Step Back In Time, Spinning Around and I Believe In You.

Kylie's official 2005 calendar becomes the best-selling calendar of the year.

25th December - Kylie performs a special medley of Step Back In Time, Shocked, Better The Devil You Know and What Do I Have To Do on the Top Of The Pops Christmas Special.

January 2005
Japanese producer and DJ extraordinaire Towa Tei confirms that Kylie he and Kylie have worked on a track called Sometime Samurai for his forthcoming album. The track was originally a demo they made together in 1996 when they recorded the kooky GBI.

"I Believe In You" continues to remain at #1 on the UK airplay chart for the 6th week in a row.

Special exhibition at the Melbourne Arts Centre - Ky-Borg 2005

14th January - Kylie unveils a special exhibition at the Melbourne Arts Centre Simply entitled 'Kylie', the collection includes outfits from tours, videos and photoshoots, as well as various awards and memorabilia spanning her entire career, from Charlene's overalls, to costumes from the Fever Tour, even the hat from the It's No Secret video gets a look in! Says Kylie: "I'm so happy that my costumes have found a home here in Melbourne, my home town, where I know they will be cared for and preserved. Its just such an honour that the Performing Arts Collection wanted it all! What I imagine people will want to see is the wear and tear, the ingrained make-up after fifty shows, where the audio-pack rubs... these are things that for me, bring costumes to life."

Magic Roundabout - Kylie and Florence 2005

February 2005
11th February - release of the animated film The Magic Roundabout, which features Kylie providing the voice for Florence, together with other stars such as Joanna Lumley, Sir Ian McKellan and Robbie Williams.

March 2005
Second single lifted from Ultimate Kylie released; Giving You Up reaches #6 on the UK Chart. Showgirl Tour kicks off.

"Made of Glass", the b-side to Kylie's new single "Giving You Up", is the #1 most added track to radio in Australia this week! The upbeat track, co-written by Kylie along with "Giving You Up" during the "Ultimate Kylie" sessions last summer, was produced by Brian Higgins & Xenomania.

May 2005
European leg of Showgirl tour finishes. The shock news that Kylie is suffering with early stage breast cancer forces Australian and Asian gigs to be postponed indefinately. Kylie begins immediate medical treatment in Melbourne.

June 2005
After the announcement of her cancer diagnosis, the Australian public's support was overwhelming. Even Prime Minister John Howard issued a statement supporting her..

Due to the extensive media coverage of her illness, Australian doctors stated that the number of mammographies in Australia rose by 40%, which they call the "Kylie effect".

January 2006
10th January: Named the most broadcast artist on radio and television in Australia in 2005. This is Kylie's third time atop the Phonographic Performance Company of Australia's 'Most Broadcast Artist' list in the last five years, having previously secured the honor in 2002 and 2003. Kylie also had two tracks make the top 100 most broadcast songs: "I Believe In You" at #18 and "Giving You Up" at #79.

March 2006
Chosen by Australian men magazine Zoo weekly as one of the "Top 50 Hottest Babes Ever".

June 2006
Named 'Woman Of The Year' at the 2006 Glamour Awards..

Made a surprise appearance at G-A-Y to present her sister Dannii Minogue with a bouquet of flowers after her live greatest hits set at the infamous London club night.

July 2006
Announced that she will continue her "Showgirls: The Greatest Hits" tour at the Sydney Entertainment Center on 11 November 2006.

September 2006
21st September: Released her first children's book "Showgirl Princess". Featuring photographs by William Baker, illustratrations by Swan Park and published by Puffin Books. The story tells of Kylie and her dog Sheeba on a quest to find Kylie's showgirl shoes.

October 2006
3rd October: stunning official 2007 calendar, featuring 13 fantastic new photographs by William Baker is released.

November 2006
Launched her first fragrance: "Darling by Kylie Minogue".

December 2006
Launched her spectacular "Showgirl Homecoming Tour" in her hometown of Melbourne, Australia. Her first UK performance of the tour will be a special New Years Eve show.