Kylie Minogue

Global megastar Kylie Minogue may have started her career as an actress, but her charisma and adaptability soon propelled her to the top of the music world. The highest-selling female Australian artist of all time, she is the country's reigning queen of pop and a genre chameleon whose pulse-pounding dance-pop gems have kept her on the international charts since her cheerful, cheeky debut in the 1980s. With multiple ARIAs, Brits, and a Grammy under her sequined belt, Minogue has spanned the decades with each new reinvention, starting with her mainstream breakthroughs: the teen-pop bop "I Should Be So Lucky" and a cover of "The Loco-Motion." Through the '90s, she made a swift artistic ascent, maturing her sound during her Deconstruction Records era on 1994's Kylie Minogue and 1997's divisive, alternative/trip-hop foray Impossible Princess, a critical low that wouldn't receive its due recognition until years later. Minogue signed with Parlophone at the end of the decade for a return to pure pop heard on Light Years, which ushered Minogue into the new millennium. However, it was the follow-up, 2001's chart-topping Fever, that catapulted her to an even bigger global stage, riding the momentum of the unstoppable, multi-platinum smash "Can't Get You Out of My Head," which shot to number one across the planet and became one of the defining songs of the early 2000s.