KELLY CLARKSON

Reveals Highly Anticipated New Album

MEANING OF LIFE

Atlantic Records and Warner Music Australia have announced the label debut album from multiple GRAMMY® Award-winning singer/ songwriter Kelly Clarkson. Meaning of Life arriving everywhere on Friday October 27.

Available to pre-order beginning today accompanied by instant grat downloads of Move You and the album’s first single, Love So Soft. Both tracks are also available today at all digital music retailers and streaming services. Love So Soft is also joined by an epic companion video, directed by Dave Meyers (Kendrick Lamar, Missy Elliott).

Meaning of Life is the album Kelly Clarkson was destined to make with Atlantic Records, a collection of smart and sensual soul-inspired pop that immediately belongs among the legendary label’s classic canon. For her eighth studio album – and follow-up to 2015’s Piece By Piece – Clarkson united a stellar team of top songwriters and producers to collaborate on her Atlantic debut, among them past collaborators Jason Halbert, Jesse Shatkin and GRAMMY® Award-winning “Producer of the Year” Greg Kurstin as well as first time collaborators Mick Schultz, The Monarch and Nick Ruth among others.

Kelly Clarkson is among the most popular artists of this or any other era, with over 100 US #1 Billboard singles and total worldwide sales of more than 25 million albums and 36 million singles. The Texas-born, Nashville-based singer-songwriter first came to fame in 2002 as the winner of the US American Idol’s inaugural season. Clarkson’s debut single, A Moment Like This, followed and quickly went to #1 on the US Billboard’s “Hot 100,” ultimately ranking as the year’s best-selling single in that country. Thankful, Clarkson’s 2003 debut album is accredited ARIA Gold in Australia and nearly 2 x platinum in America.

Breakaway arrived in 2004 and truly affirmed Clarkson as a major pop force via the blockbuster ARIA platinum single Since U Been Gone, which earnt Clarkson a GRAMMY® Award for “Best Female Pop Vocal Performance.” The album remains Clarkson’s most successful to date, currently certified 7 x platinum by ARIA and 6 x platinum in the US by RIAA, with sales exceeding 6 million in her home country. Breakaway has been followed by a series of incredible album releases, including 2007’s ARIA gold certified My December, 2009’s ARIA platinum All I Ever Wanted, 2011’s ARIA & US platinum certified –GRAMMY® Award-winning – Stronger, 2013’s Christmas album, Wrapped In Red, and 2015’s Piece By Piece.

Clarkson is without doubt one of pop’s top singles artists, with 17 single releases now boasting multi-platinum, platinum, and gold certifications around the world, including such global favourites as the ARIA gold singles Miss Independent and Because Of You, 3 x platinum ARIA chart #1 single Mr. Know It All, ARIA 3 x platinum Stronger (What Doesn’t Kill You), ARIA gold Heartbeat Song, and ARIA platinum My Life Would Suck Without You, the last of which holds the US Billboard “Hot 100” record for the biggest chart leap in a single week, from #97 all the way to #1.

One of the most honoured artists in music history, Clarkson has received a truly stunning array of awards and nominations, among them three GRAMMY® Awards including two for “Best Pop Vocal Album” – the first artist to ever twice win that award. In addition, Clarkson has won 12 US Billboard Music Awards, four American Music Awards, three MTV Video Music Awards, two Academy of Country Music Awards, two American Country Awards, and one Country Music Association Award. The first artist to top each of Billboard’s pop, adult contemporary, country, and dance charts, Clarkson has made countless TV appearances, including performances during the 14^th season of American Idol – the first ever week of competition dedicated to a previous winner’s discography.

Alongside her incredible musical career, Clarkson has ventured into a variety of film and television projects, including a memorable turn as musical legend Brenda Lee on NBC’s 2003 series, American Dreams. As if all that weren’t enough, Clarkson made her literary debut in 2016 with the best-selling children’s book, River Rose and The Magical Lullaby (HarperCollins). This year will see the release of Clarkson’s follow-up, River Rose and the Magical Christmas, to be published October 24^th by HarperCollins. Clarkson will return to US TV next year in her new role as coach on the eagerly awaited new season of The Voice, set to premiere in February 2018.