It's been a decade since ‘Kylie Christmas' became a firm favourite (definitely on my turntable) each festive season and earlier this month Kylie announced a special ‘Fully Wrapped' version of the album to be released on 5th December.
It includes new Amazon exclusive single ‘XMAS' alongside 3 new tracks and a selection of songs from the previous two versions of the album including ‘At Christmas' and ‘Santa Baby'.
To celebrate the release of ‘Kylie Christmas (Fully Wrapped)', I've come up with a little Kylie quiz-mas with ten seasonal Kylie-related questions; will you be sitting on top of the tree or are you a cracker joke?
- Which song kept Kylie & Jason's ‘Especially For You' from claiming the UK's Christmas No.1 in 1988?
- The year after, Kylie was part of an all-star cast for Band Aid II that did get the UK's Christmas No.1 with Kylie getting to sing the opening line. Can you name the act that sang the second line of the song?
- Kylie's sister Dannii, also appeared on a charity Christmas ensemble record, Child Liners in 1995 – what was the title of this song?
- Speaking of Dannii, her festive duet with Kylie ‘100 degrees', was first released on deluxe versions of 2015's original ‘Kylie Christmas', but what was added in brackets after the song title for it's non-Christmas reworking released as a single in April 2016?
- Kylie promoted the release of the original version of ‘Kylie Christmas' (and it's repack the year after) with special Christmas shows at London's Royal Albert Hall in 2015 and 2016. She was joined on stage by a variety of special guests. A point for each one you can name and a bonus point if you can name the songs that they performed with Kylie.
- Kylie's most streamed Christmas song is ‘Santa Baby', but on which single was it released as a b-side years before it made an appearance on ‘Kylie Christmas'?
- A cover of which Bee Gees song appears on the French version of the 2016 Snow Queen Edition of the album?
- New Amazon exclusive single ‘XMAS' was co-written with longstanding Kylie collaborator Richard Stannard. By what nickname is he better known?
- Connie Francis originally recorded and released ‘I'm Gonna Be Warm This Winter' in 1962 which Kylie covered on ‘Kylie Christmas', but which other Australian singer released her version ‘Warm This Winter' in 2008?
- The lead singer of which band co-wrote Kylie's 2015 xmas single ‘Everydays Like Christmas'?
See how many you got right by scrolling down the page to the answers – no cheating – the elves are watching!
Order ‘Kylie Christmas (Fully Wrapped)' on vinyl and CD and the single ‘XMAS' exclusively at Amazon.
Meanwhile, listen to 2016's ‘Snow Queen Edition' below and get excited about the Fully Wrapped version coming on 5th December:
Quiz answers
- Mistletoe & Wine – Cliff Richard
- Chris Rea
- The Gift of Christmas
- Still Disco to Me
- Dannii – 100 Degrees, Chrissie Hynde – 2000 Miles, Katherine Jenkins – Your Disco Needs You, Olly Alexander – Better the Devil you Know, John Grant – Confide in Me.
- Please Stay
- Night Fever
- Biff (part of songwriting/production team Biffco)
- Gabriella Cilmi
- Coldplay (Chris Martin)
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