Fading star? Kylie performs in Oslo on 11 December. Photograph: Tim Rooke/Rex Features
Is Kylie Fatigue setting in? This week her album X slipped from the top five to number 19 after only three weeks in the charts: and this despite the greatest media push since Heather Mills got divorced.
In the build-up to the album's release we saw a full-on Kylie media assault, beginning in January with her sellout comeback shows. These coincided with the unveiling of her fourth Madame Tussauds waxwork, making her second only to the Queen in terms of number of models (and not even the Queen gets a 'scented' one).
Over the last few months she's also been a regular fixture in weekend TV listings. The hour-long TV special The Kylie Show - lame sketches et al - came hot on the heels of the feature-length documentary White Diamond (which is now available as a double CD with Showgirl Homecoming Live). Kylie then turned to the pop reality shows, coaching and duetting on Endemol's French show Star Academy before repeating the trick with eventual X Factor winner Leon last weekend. We can see her next in the Titanic-inspired Doctor Who Christmas Day special Voyage of the Damned.
You can't fault her work ethic, but when it's not shifting units, isn't it all a bit redundant?
