"It's No Secret" is a pop

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-ballad

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 song written by English

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 songwriting team Stock, Aitken and Waterman

Stock Aitken Waterman

Stock Aitken Waterman, sometimes known as SAW, were a UK songwriting and record producing trio consisting of Mike Stock, Matt Aitken and Pete Waterman. They had great success during the mid to late 1980s and early 1990s...

 for Australia

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n singer 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...

's debut studio album

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 Kylie

Kylie (album)

Kylie is the debut album by Australian singer and songwriter Kylie Minogue, released by PWL on 4 July 1988. Stock, Aitken and Waterman produced and wrote eight of the ten tracks on the album....

(1988). The song was produced by Stock, Aitken and Waterman and received a mixed reception from music critic

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s. The song was released as the fifth single

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 in the winter of 1988

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 and reached number four in Japan

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 and the top forty in Canada

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 and the United States

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Song information

Originally scheduled to be released worldwide, it was canceled in favor of "Hand on Your Heart

Hand on Your Heart

"Hand on Your Heart" is a dance-pop song performed by Australian singer Kylie Minogue and written by Mike Stock, Matt Aitken and Pete Waterman...

", released the following year. A screenshot

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 from the video of "It's No Secret" was used as the cover of the "Hand on Your Heart" CD and cassette, while the track itself was also used as the B-side to its follow-up, "Wouldn't Change a Thing

Wouldn't Change a Thing

"Wouldn't Change a Thing" was the second single released from Australian singer Kylie Minogue's second album Enjoy Yourself. The single was released on 24 July 1989 and was written by Stock Aitken Waterman.-Song information:...

" in 1989.

Minogue shortly promoted "It's No Secret", performing it on Live at the Hippodrome, a UK television show, and in a rare all-live with band U.S. appearance on The Arsenio Hall Show

The Arsenio Hall Show

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and Club MTV.

Chart performance

Overall its charting performance, the song was a commercial faliure. "It's No Secret" debuted at number 47 on New Zealand Singles Chart

Recording Industry Association of New Zealand

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. The song peaked there for a sole week on the charts. The song peaked at number 37 on the U.S. Billboard charts

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.

Music video

The clip was shot in Port Douglas, Queensland. It starts with Kylie behind the counter of a diner, her boyfriend asking for money, she later sees him with another girl and walks out. Next she gets off a train and she is seen walking down a train track amongst the cane fields in a strapless top and jeans, arriving at a beach house, singing to a photo of her ex-boyfriend, sitting beside a waterfall, arriving poolside in a dress at Mirage resort Port Douglas and lastly on the beach.

Formats and track listings

North America 7" vinyl single and cassette single

1. "It's No Secret" – 3:55
2. "Made in Heaven" – 3:24

North American 12" vinyl single

1. "It's No Secret" (Extended) – 5:46
2. "Made in Heaven" (Maid in England mix) – 6:20

Japanese 7" vinyl single

1. "It's No Secret" – 3:55
2. "Made in Heaven" – 3:24

Japanese 3" CD single

1. "It's No Secret" – 3:55
2. "Look My Way" – 3:35

Japanese 12" vinyl single

1. "It's No Secret" (Extended) – 5:46
2. "The Loco-Motion" (Sankie Mix - long version) – 6:55

New Zealand 7" single

1. "It's No Secret" – 3:55
2. "It's No Secret" (Instrumental) – 3:55

Australian 12" single

1. "It's No Secret" (Extended) – 5:46
2. "It's No Secret" (Instrumental) – 3:55

Charts

Chart (1988)	Peak position
New Zealand (RIANZ Recording Industry Association of New Zealand The Recording Industry Association of New Zealand is a non-profit trade association of record producers, distributors and recording artists who sell music in New Zealand... )	47
U.S. Hot 100 (Billboard Billboard (magazine) Billboard is a weekly American magazine devoted to the music industry, and is one of the oldest trade magazines in the world. It maintains several internationally recognized music charts that track the most popular songs and albums in various categories on a weekly basis... )	37