• New-Zealand: The single debuted at #47 in May « Hippodrome Show », a UK TV show. She was wea1989 on the NZ Singles Chart, where it only peaked ring that big necklace again. for a week. This is one of Kylie’s worst performing See pics below. single over there. • Japan: The song didn’t manage to get to number one but peaked at number 4. Incredible but true though, in March 1989, Kylie had 5 singles in the Japanese Top 40 simultaneously: « I Should Be So Lucky » at No. 31, « Loco-Motion » at No. 27, « It’s No Secret » at No. 4, « Especially For You » at No. 3 and « Turn It Into Love » still at No. 1. In one year, Kylie spent 27 entire weeks at the number one spot in Japan! • Canada: Peak position #22
PROMO & LIVE PERFORMANCES In January 1989, Kylie travelled to the USA to promote the single. • She performed (well, lip-synched) the song at the Club MTV, a half-hour television show, and the perfor- Years later, in 2012, Kylie performed « It’s No Secret » mance was followed by a slightly embarrassing inter- during some dates of the anti-tour. view « You’ve become a sex symbol, how do you feel about that? » (to be honest, imo, she wasn’t quite a sex symbol at that point, but we know that was soon to change). I’ll let you check that out on YouTube Lovers. Kylie seems to be wearing the purple dress that you can see below and also the necklace she wore a few times during early-day pictures, such as during the photoshoot below by Rob Verhorst.
THE VIDEO The video was (again) directed by Chris Langman and (again) entirely filmed in Australia, more specifically in Queensland: in Port Douglas, the village of Mossman and Cooya Beach. After a big change in Kylie in the « Je Ne Sais Pas Pourquoi » clip, well in this video, we go straight back to her Charlene girl-next-door look from Neighbours, with a curly and natural-looking Kylie.
• She also sang the song (in a rare all-live performance with band appearance) on the USA Two versions of the video exist, and the extended late-night talk show « The Arsenio Hall Show ». version is the official video. • In February 1989, Kylie lip-synched the song at the 9 www.kylie-world.com
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