Okay, Body Language was released in the US this week (naturally I was at the store when they opened, foregoing the first part of my Acting 1 class). Great, US exposure is good... right? WRONG!
This is the SECOND TIME NOW that they've released her album the sales week after the Grammys. In 2002, Fever debuted at #3 behind a pair of albums that would not have been there had it not been for their post-Grammy bounce (especially the O Brother, Where Art Thou soundtrack, which won Album of the Year in 2002, jumping back to #1 after being somwhere between 50-100 the previous week). So now she's screwed AGAIN. The worst part is that this is really her last shot to be big in the US.
So I'm saying that Capitol Records is out to keep the vastly superior to anything else on their label (save Radiohead, with whom she shares supremacy) Ms. Minogue from selling well. Why wouldn't they want her to sell well, she's on their label and it would hurt more than help, right? Not when you've got philistines in charge, no siree pop.
Motherfuckers.
(fumes until he can come up with more ways that the US music industry is trying to bilk her out of her due success)
EDIT: Go here to hear tracks from the album and see why they're so goddamn jealous of her.