Kylie Minogue announces first Las Vegas residency and new album, Tension

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Kylie Minogue performs during Live and Proud: Sydney WorldPride Opening Concert on February 24, 2023 in Sydney, Australia. (Photo by Don Arnold/Getty Images)

Australian princess of pop Kylie Minogue is set to perform in her first Las Vegas residency later this year.

On Friday (Jul. 28, 2023), the music superstar and Grammy award winner announced the news on Instagram and X, the platform formerly known as Twitter.

She is slated to perform a three-month run at luxury Las Vegas hotel The Venetian Resort in its cabaret-style nightclub Voltaire.

Shows will start in November, with tickets available from August.

According to Entertainment Weekly, the 17-time ARIA Award winner said she โ€œcouldnโ€™t be more excitedโ€ during a Los Angeles press event for the residency.

โ€œToday is the day where it all becomes beautifully real,โ€ Minogue said.

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Kylie Minogue performs during Global Citizen Live at Sky Garden on September 24, 2021 in London, England. (Photo by Jeff Spicer/Getty Images for Global Citizen)

Minogue had been planning these shows for three years, Entertainment Weekly said.

โ€œTo finally be able to say, yes, I am doing a show in Vegas and to be at Voltaire at the Venetian Resort, itโ€™s just, itโ€™s such a good match,โ€ she said.

It will be Minogueโ€™s first residency, despite having sold over 80 million records worldwide.

Her latest song, โ€œPadam Padam,โ€ has over 44 million global streams since its release in May and has made its way into numerous top 10 charts worldwide.

Her 16th album, Tension, is set to be released in September.

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Kylie Minogue performs onstage during KTUphoria 2023 at Northwell Health at Jones Beach Theater on June 17, 2023 in Wantagh, New York. (Photo by Slaven Vlasic/Getty Images for iHeartRadio)

Minogue said the new album was a fusion of โ€œempowered dance floor bangers and sultry pop cuts.โ€

โ€œUnlike my last two albums, there wasnโ€™t a โ€˜themeโ€™, it was about finding the heart or the fun or the fantasy of that moment and always trying to service the song,โ€ she said of the new tracks.

Minogue will join fellow Australian Keith Urban in Las Vegas, who is currently performing his Caesars Palace residency until the end of November.