Kylie Minogue scores her first top 10 hit since 2010 - but what does Padam Padam mean?

Kylie Minogue has scored her biggest solo deed successful much than a decennary with the infectious creation anthem Padam Padam.

It's the stars archetypal opus to interruption into the UK apical 10 since All The Lovers peaked astatine fig 3 successful 2010.

That means Kylie is 1 of lone 4 women to scope the UK's apical 10 successful 5 abstracted decades, alongside Cher, Lulu and Diana Ross.

The vocalist said the occurrence of the song, which has gone viral connected TikTok, had "really taken america each by surprise".

She hasn't been successful the apical 10 successful immoderate capableness since appearing arsenic a featured creator connected Taio Cruz's 2011 azygous Higher.

Padam Padam is besides a deed successful Ireland, the Netherlands, Argentina, Chile, Germany, El Salvador, New Zealand and Kylie's location country, Australia.

Said to beryllium inspired by the Edith Piaf opus of the aforesaid name, its rubric mimics the dependable of a racing heart.

"It's onomatopoeic," Kylie explained. "D-dum, d-dum, similar a heartbeat".

But since its merchandise past month, the connection "Padam" has been adopted by fans, particularly during Pride month, to correspond each sorts of things - from hullo and goodbye, to a vocal seal of approval.

What bash you deliberation of her outfit? Padam. How bash you instrumentality your coffee? Padam. Is it blistery outside? Padam Padam.

"People are hilarious. It's go a noun, a verb, an adjective," Kylie told Zoe Ball.

"You know, friends leaving going: 'Padam!' Like they've turned into minions oregon something. It's taken connected a beingness of its ain and I americium having the clip of my beingness seeing what radical are doing."

Writing successful Harper's Bazaar, Louis Staples said the operation fits into a past of "queer radical utilizing creation arsenic portion of a coded connection that lone we - the initiated - understand".

"A historical illustration would beryllium San Francisco's Castro District successful the 1970s, during the clip of Harvey Milk, erstwhile determination was an full sartorial codification for cheery men, according to which not lone different-coloured handkerchiefs, but besides mundane garments similar Converse and plaid shirts each meant antithetic things," helium observed.

"Padam Padam seems to person entered that aforesaid cheery lexicon, the shorthand galore of america usage to pass with each other."

"That's a chaotic thought," Kylie told Capital Radio. "Because what does it mean? It means immoderate you privation it to mean."

Padam Padam is the 2nd opus to beryllium taken from the star's upcoming medium Tension, which is owed for merchandise successful September.

After the disco vibes of her past record, and the country-pop songs of 2018's Golden, she said the philharmonic notation constituent for her caller worldly was her slow-burning and sensual 2003 azygous Slow.

Coincidentally, that opus was Kylie's past fig 1 successful the UK.

But with streams of Padam Padam expanding week-on-week, the vocalist could instrumentality to the apical 5 precise soon.

Elsewhere successful the charts, One Direction prima Niall Horan achieved his 2nd fig 1 medium with The Show, intimately followed by McFly, with their seventh workplace album, Power To Play.

Dave and Central Cee person the fig 1 azygous for a 2nd week with the laid-back summertime jam, Sprinter. Another high-profile rap collaboration - J Hus and Drake's Who Told You - is the week's highest caller introduction astatine two.

And Sam Fender and Harry Styles some get a boost aft playing immense UK shows this week.

Fender's Seventeen Going Under returns to the Top 40 astatine 29, portion Styles' singles Late Night Talking and Satellite are astatine 30 and 31 respectively.