"Turn It into Love" is a single

Single (music)

In music, a single or record single is a type of release, typically a recording of fewer tracks than an LP or a CD. This can be released for sale to the public in a variety of different formats. In most cases, the single is a song that is released separately from an album, but it can still appear...

 released from 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 album 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....

. The single was released in December 1988 as the album's sixth and final single and was written by Stock Aitken 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...

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Song information

With Kylie mania taking over Japan, "Turn It into Love" was released to meet demand and instantly shot to number 1 on the Japanese International chart where it remained unchallenged for 10 weeks.
"Turn It into Love" became Kylie's third consecutive Japanese No.1, and the sixth single from the album. Over a 12 month period Kylie spent a staggering 27 weeks (almost 6 months) on the No.1 spot on the Japanese International charts. The single was released exclusively in Japan

Japan

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 in 1988.

Track listing

Japanese 7" single and 3" CD

1. "Turn It into Love" – 3:35
2. "Made in Heaven" – 3:24

"Turn It into Love"

• Album version / single version
• Instrumental: initially used on a very rare Turkish bootleg 7" in 1988 and then as the theme music to the 'gallery' section of the 2002 Greatest Hits 1987–1992 DVD
• Extended instrumental: included exclusively on the Japanese Greatest Hits 1987–1997 CD in 2003

No official vocal extended version of "Turn It into Love" was ever produced at PWL.

"Made in Heaven"

• Album version / Single version
• Maid in England Mix, aka Maid in Australia Mix or Maid in Sweden Mix
• Heaven Scent Mix (edit): shorter version included on the Australian "Never Too Late" single and the UK Greatest Hits 87–92 (2002 release)
• Heaven Scent 12" Mix (extended): included exclusively on Greatest Remix Hits Volume 4 in Australia in August 1998

Notable live performances

Kylie performed the song on the following concert tours:

• On a Night Like This Tour
  On A Night Like This Tour
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   (as part of the Hits Medley)
• Showgirl: The Homecoming Tour (as a medley with "Light Years")

Charts

Chart (1989)	Peak position
Japan (Oricon Oricon , established in 1999, is the holding company at the head of a Japanese corporate group that supplies statistics and information on music and the music industry in Japan. It started as , which was founded by Sōkō Koike in November 1967 and became known for its music charts. Oricon Inc... )	1

Hazell Dean version

In September 1988, just prior to Kylie's version being released in Japan, British Hi-NRG singer Hazell Dean

Hazell Dean

Hazell Dean is a British dance-pop singer, who achieved her biggest success in the 1980s as a leading Hi-NRG artist. She is best known for the top ten hits "Searchin' ", "Whatever I Do " and "Who's Leaving Who"...

 released her version which was also produced by Stock Aitken 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...

. The song reached number 21 in the UK singles chart and was followed by the release of her second album Always

Always (Hazell Dean album)

Always is the third album by British singer Hazell Dean.Released in 1988, it coincided with the singer's comeback and featured the hit singles "Who's Leaving Who" , "Maybe " and "Turn It into Love"...

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Same Difference version

Brother-sister duo Same Difference

Same Difference

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 recorded Turn It into Love and included it on their debut album which was released on 1 December 2008..

Turn It Into Love was intended to have been the second single from the duo (and from the album), and was due for release in 2009. However, , this has not happened.

"Ai ga Tomaranai (Turn It into Love)"

"愛が止まらない (Turn It into Love)" ("Ai ga Tomaranai (Turn It into Love)") was Wink's third single. The song is a Japanese-language cover version

Cover version

In popular music, a cover version or cover song, or simply cover, is a new performance or recording of a contemporary or previously recorded, commercially released song or popular song...

 of 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 "Turn It into Love," which had been released as a single only in Japan. Songwriter Neko Oikawa wrote the lyrics. The cover was issued on November 16, 1988 on CD (catalog number H10R-30011) and cassette tape (catalog number X10R-1021). It reached number one on the Oricon

Oricon

, established in 1999, is the holding company at the head of a Japanese corporate group that supplies statistics and information on music and the music industry in Japan. It started as , which was founded by Sōkō Koike in November 1967 and became known for its music charts. Oricon Inc...

 pop charts, and served as the theme song for the Japanese TV drama Oikaketai no! "Ai ga Tomaranai" itself has been covered by numerous artists.

Track listing

1. "愛が止まらない (Turn It Into Love)" / "Ai ga Tomaranai (Turn It Into Love)"
2. "Ding Ding: 恋から始まるふたりのトレイン" / "Ding Ding: Koikara Hajimaru Futarino Train"

Cover versions of "Ai ga Tomaranai"

Year	Artist	Album
1995	Hideki Saijo Hideki Saijo is a Japanese singer and television celebrity most famous for singing the Japanese version of the Village People's hit song Y.M.C.A., called Young Man. Although the original version was camp, Saijō's version was intended to seriously inspire "young men"....	Ai ga Tomaranai (愛が止まらない) (Single)
2001	Puffy AmiYumi Puffy AmiYumi or Puffy AmiYumi is a Japanese rock duo that is currently signed with Sony Music Japan. The group continues to go by the moniker of PUFFY in Japan, but in order to avoid legal naming conflicts with Sean Combs, it has adopted the name Puffy AmiYumi outside of Japan...	The Hit Parade
2003	Yuki Koyanagi Yuki Koyanagi , is a Japanese pop singer. She released her first single, 'Anata no kisu o kazoemashô - You Were Mine' on September 15, 1999. This song was a huge hit in Japan and made the 17-year-old a sensation overnight. Her second album 'EXPANSION', sold over 1.3 million copies. She has done several albums ...	Koyanagi the Covers Product 2
2003	Dream Dream (Japanese band) Dream is a Japanese pop girl group signed to the Avex Trax since 2000 and Rhythm Zone since 2009.In 1999 Avex Trax organized a huge talent contest, called "Avex Dream 2000", with the aim of finding the right and talented girls for a new group. The result was dream, a three-piece group consisting of...	Dream World
2008	Demon Kogure Demon Kogure , previously known as Demon Kogure, is a Japanese musician, entertainer, journalist and sumo commentator. He is the frontman of the heavy metal band Seikima-II, and is known for always working entirely in character....	Girls' Rock √Hakurai
2009	ManaKana ManaKana and are Japanese identical twin sister actresses. They are mostly collectively referred to as . They were born in Osaka, Osaka...	Two Sing 2 (ふたりうた2 Futari Uta 2)
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2011	serial TV drama Serial TV drama serial TV drama （シリアル・ティーヴィー・ドラマ）is a Japanese band that was formed in 2004, managed by Sony Music Records Inc. and under Steezlab Music. The group consists of five members Hiroki Arai , Shotaro Okada , Satoshi Tokizaki , Goh Inamasu , and Futoshi Kondo .-History:The band was...	Power Spot (パワースポット Pawāsupotto )