Kylie Minogue honoured with Brit Awards global icon gong

After archiving success throughout her nearly 40-year music career, Kylie Minogue has earned the Brits global icon title.

Since breaking through in the late 1980s, the 55-year-old Australia pop superstar has sold more than 80 million records worldwide and became the first female artist to score a number one album in five consecutive decades in the UK.

Taking to the stage at the O2 Arena on Saturday, she first paid tribute to biggest winner of the night, saying: “I’m just going to be sobbing with Raye, Raye you did that.”

Raye won six Brits – meaning she beat the record for the highest number of wins in one award year.

Minogue also said that “there’s a part of me that’s the 14-year-old girl in the room dreaming of making music” and told music students that she feels their “promise” as well.

“I love you, and I will always love you, you have my heart,” she added.

The singer then performed a medley of her hit songs with three separate costume reveals.

In a red latex style dress, echoing the music video for Padam Padam, she performed that dance-pop hit before going into a black and white outfit for Can’t Get You Out Of My Head and finishing in an all-white ensemble for Love At First Sight.

Minogue first made a name for her herself on Australian soap opera Neighbours, where she played Charlene Mitchell.

She starred opposite actor Jason Donovan, who played Scott Robinson, and their characters fell in love and ultimately married each other.