"Aphrodite" is a song by Australian recording artist Kylie Minogue

Kylie Minogue

Kylie Ann Minogue, OBE - often known simply as Kylie - is an Australian singer, recording artist, songwriter, and actress. After beginning her career as a child actress on Australian television, she achieved recognition through her role in the television soap opera Neighbours, before commencing...

, taken from her eleventh studio album of the same name

Aphrodite (album)

Aphrodite is the eleventh studio album by Australian recording artist Kylie Minogue. It was her first studio album in the three years following her 2007 release X. Aphrodite was released worldwide in July 2010, and was preceded by the release of the lead single, "All the Lovers"...

 (2010). The song was written and produced by Andy Chatterley. The song has received generally favorable reception in album reviews, mostly praised for being a single. It had been also featured on her holiday EP

Extended play

An EP is a musical recording which contains more music than a single, but is too short to qualify as a full album or LP. The term EP originally referred only to specific types of vinyl records other than 78 rpm standard play records and LP records, but it is now applied to mid-length Compact...

 A Kylie Christmas

A Kylie Christmas

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Background

Minogue recorded her vocals in July 2009 at Pallot and Chatterley's 'Electric Love' studios in North London, where she also recorded "Better Than Today

Better Than Today

"Better Than Today" is a song performed by Australian recording artist Kylie Minogue from her eleventh studio album Aphrodite . The track was originally written and produced by Nerina Pallot and Andy Chatterley for Pallot's 2009 extended play, Buckminster Fuller EP. It was re-recorded by Minogue in...

" from her album also written and produced by Pallot and Chatterley.

Reception

Tim Sendra from Allmusic gave the song a positive review, as he had highlighted the song as a track pick, saying that it is "one of Kylie's best, in fact". Christel Loar from Popmatters

PopMatters

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had made it a highlight, as it was reviewed she said that its a "rare representation of perfect production that is just pleasure, pure and simple". "Aphrodite" peaked at number-six in Belgium.

Charts

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Chart (2011)	Peak position

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