As predicted by Simon Cowell after Carrie Underwood's "Alone" performance in Season 4 of American Idol, she has just surpassed Season 1 winner, Kelly Clarkson, to become American Idol’s best-selling artist and the highest earner.
Nielsen SoundScan shows that as of May 16, Underwood has sold more than 12,296,000 albums and 18,482,000 digital tracks since her career began, this compared to Clarkson's 10,600,000 albums sold and 15,900,000 digital tracks sold. Furthermore, according to Billboard BoxScore, as far as tour revenues are concerned, Carrie's got Kelly beat by a lot with $66,000,000 in earnings, whereas Kelly has brought in around $32,000,000.
Congrats to Carrie! And to Kelly Clarkson as well, those are some big numbers for both ladies.
"I just heard another demo of mine leaked. I don't know how or who is doing it but they're demos and not the real deal. I record a ton of songs I write and songs that other people write when I'm making an album. Sorry for the confusion. I promise y'all I'm just as anxious to get my CD out! The recording is all done and now we're finishing up with mixing the record and getting ready to release the single in July."
Kelly Clarkson has recorded a joint track with fellow “American Idol” season 5 contestant Chris Daughtry, it was confirmed. Pop/rock singer/songwriter Richard Marx revealed the duet during a recent interview with 95.5 PLJ.
Richard said the song is titled “One More Yesterday” and he has songwriting credit on it. “I’ve heard the rough mix of it, and the singing can’t be beat, between the two of them,” the 47-year-old musician further spilled the beans about the project.
Back in 2008, Kelly and Chris were rumored to record a duet. However, a source claimed the plan was scrapped because the label was not satisfied with the result. The two singers then tried to hook up in other songs that might have worked, but they reportedly were forced to cancel it as well.
This new duet reportedly will be included in Kelly’s upcoming studio album. The rumor arose since Kelly herself has stated publicly that her new album will contain a duet with someone that fans have wanted to see her singing with for quite some time.
Kelly won’t release the new album until September this year. On Facebook, she apologized over the delay, “I realize that is a long time but that’s the best time to release it apparently so I’m sorry for the wait but I promise you it sounds great!”
There a low quality preview of a Kelly Clarkson song apparently titled "Let You Down" and is rumored to be the new single off her upcoming fifth album. Like I said, it's just a rumor. The song may or may not be from the new album. Take a listen! I do like what I hear though.
Kelly Clarkson performed a medley of her greatest hits live this morning on the Ellen DeGeneres show. Check out that performance above. She killed this! Wow! Great job.
This afternoon, the original American Idol, Kelly Clarkson, took to Facebook to update her fans on the progress of her highly anticipated new album.
Kelly said, "I recently found out that my album won't be coming out until September ....the album has been recorded but I can't release it until then. I realize that is a long time but that's the best time to release it apparently so I'm sorry for the wait but I promise you it sounds great!"
"This album was influenced by Prince, Tina Turner, Sheryl Crow, Radiohead and there's a little bit of a Country vibe/influence on a couple of songs...I can't wait for y'all to hear it!"
