I Should Be So Lucky

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115+1⁄2 bpm rinky tinky canterer from Stock Aitken Waterman's Bananarama reject pile", adding that "as by now everyone must be sick of hearing" Minogue. [15] OK! called the song a "classic". [16]

Retrospectively, in 2021, British magazine Classic Pop ranked it number 11 in their list of "Top 40 Stock Aitken Waterman songs". [17] In 2024, the same magazine ranked the song at number 17 in its list of "Top 40 Kylie Minogue songs", describing it as a SAW "squeaky clean confection". [18] In 2023, Robert Moran of Australian daily tabloid newspaper The Sydney Morning Herald ranked the song as Minogue's 56th best song (out of 183), adding that "the peppy overproduction masks a melancholy yearning... Those diva-ish adlibs at the end are hilariously thin, but that's just part of the charm". [19]

The song was also known to many in the late 1980s and early 1990s as one of Minogue's signature songs, which many critics entering the song on their best track or worst track list. And additionally, in 2011, "I Should Be So Lucky" was added to the National Film and Sound Archive of Australia's Sounds of Australia registry for songs of "cultural, historical and aesthetic significance and relevance". [20] [21] "I Should Be So Lucky" later appeared on seven of Kylie's hit compilations including Greatest Hits (1992), Ultimate Kylie (2004), and Step Back in Time: The Definitive Collection (2019). The song won the Highest-Selling Single award at the 3rd annual ARIA Awards. [22]

Commercial performance

Minogue, flanked by dancers, performing "I Should Be So Lucky" during her 2019 summer tour in Castlefield Bowl Kylie Minogue - Summer 2019 - Step Back In Time Tour - Castlefield Bowl - Manchester - 11.07.19 - 047 (cropped).jpg
Minogue, flanked by dancers, performing "I Should Be So Lucky" during her 2019 summer tour in Castlefield Bowl

"I Should Be So Lucky" was released in the UK on 29 December 1987, and in Australia on 1 February 1988. [23] It was a commercial success, staying atop the Australian Kent Music Report chart for six consecutive weeks, and became her second number-one single in her home country, following "Locomotion". [24] The single was certified platinum by the Australian Recording Industry Association (ARIA) and ranked at number five on the year-end chart for 1988. [25] In New Zealand, the song entered at number 15 on New Zealand Top 40 and peaked at number three on 27 March 1988, spending twelve weeks on the chart. [26] "I Should Be So Lucky" entered at number 90 on the UK Singles Chart, climbing to number 54 the following week. Three weeks later it rose to number one, and remained at the top for five weeks. [27] It spent seventeen weeks on the chart. [27] It was certified gold by the British Phonographic Industry (BPI) for the shipment of 600,000 copies. [28] The song was one of the best-selling singles of 1988, with estimated sales of over 675,000. [29]

In the United States, "I Should Be So Lucky" peaked at No. 28 on the Billboard Hot 100 (dated July 16, 1988) and No. 10 on the US Hot Dance Club Play chart (dated June 4, 1988). [30] [31] Across Europe, "I Should Be So Lucky" topped the singles charts in Germany, Ireland, and Switzerland. It became a top-five hit in Austria, France, and Norway, [32] as well as a top-thirty hit in Belgium, the Netherlands, and Sweden. [32] [33] Elsewhere, the song was a No. 1 hit in Finland, Germany, Hong Kong, Ireland, Israel, and Switzerland, [34] [35] [32] and spent seven weeks atop the South African pop chart. [36] The song was certified silver by the Syndicat National de l'Édition Phonographique (SNEP) and gold in Germany. [37] [38]

Music video

The music video for "I Should Be So Lucky" was directed by Chris Langman and filmed during November 1987 at Channel 7 Studios in Melbourne, Australia. [39] 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.

Another version of the video was made for television promotion. This version of the video shows Kylie riding in a car through Sydney. In other parts of the video, she is in the park and passersby are waving to her as she walks by them. This video premiered in the UK on Christmas Day 1987 in a live broadcast from the British Telecom Tower (Christmas Morning With Noel Edmonds, BBC1). The official 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 2012 greatest hits album, The Best of Kylie Minogue . Outtakes from the music video were used in Kylie: The Videos.

Formats and track listings

These are the formats and track listings of major single releases of "I Should Be So Lucky".

"I Should Be So Lucky"
KylieIShouldBeSoLuckyOZCover.png
Australian single artwork
Single by Kylie Minogue
from the album Kylie
Released29 December 1987 (1987-12-29)
Studio PWL (London)
Genre
Length3:28
Label PWL
Songwriter(s)
Producer(s) Stock Aitken Waterman
Kylie Minogue singles chronology
"Locomotion"
(1987)		"I Should Be So Lucky"
(1987)		"Got to Be Certain"
(1988)
Alternative cover
Kylie Minogue - I Should Be So Lucky.png
International single cover

Live performances

Minogue performed the song on the following concert tours:

The song was also performed on:

Credits and personnel

Credits adapted from Kylie album liner notes. [46]

Charts

Certifications and sales

RegionCertification Certified units/sales
Australia (ARIA) [25] Platinum70,000^
France (SNEP) [37] Silver250,000*
Germany (BVMI) [38] Gold250,000^
Japan—30,140 [60]
United Kingdom (BPI) [82] Gold702,850 [83]
Summaries
Europe—1,500,000 [84]

* Sales figures based on certification alone.
^ Shipments figures based on certification alone.

See also

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