Kelly Clarkson - Wrapped In Red - Out Now!
Aug 19, 2013 10:08:34 GMT -5
Post by ƒreakshow on Aug 19, 2013 10:08:34 GMT -5
Kelly Clarkson (Blackstock)
Wrapped In Red
October 29, 2013
Kelly's first Christmas album and sixth studio album, out October 29, 2013. Since the GH era is over, I figured the Christmas album should have its own thread.
Track Listing, Standard Edition:
1. Wrapped In Red (Kelly Clarkson, Ashley Arrison, Aben Eubanks, Shane McAnally) - 3:36
2. Underneath The Tree (Kelly Clarkson, Greg Kurstin) - 3:49
3. Have Yourself A Merry Little Christmas - 3:39
4. Run Run Rudolph - 2:27
5. Please Come Home For Christmas (Bells Will Be Ringing) - 3:19
6. Every Christmas (Kelly Clarkson, Aben Eubanks) - 3:46
7. Blue Christmas - 2:52
8. Baby It's Cold Outside (feat. Ronnie Dunn) - 3:01
9. Winter Dream (Brandon's Song) (Kelly Clarkson, Ashley Arrison, Aben Eubanks) - 3:22
10. White Christmas - 3:02
11. My Favorite Things - 2:49
12. 4 Carats (Kelly Clarkson, Cathy Dennis, Livvi Franc, Greg Kurstin) - 3:28
13. Just For Now - 3:30
14. Silent Night (feat. Reba McEntire and Trisha Yearwood) - 4:09
Deluxe/Target Edition:
15. I'll Be Home For Christmas - 2:54
16. Oh Come, Oh Come Emmanuel - 2:00
Produced by Greg Kurstin
First single: Underneath The Tree
Via RCA:
GRAMMY AWARD WINNER KELLY CLARKSON TO RELEASE WRAPPED IN RED OCTOBER 29TH
(New York, NY) – Grammy Award winner and multi-platinum recording artist Kelly Clarkson is set to release her first Christmas album, Wrapped in Red on October 29th. The album will feature brand new instant classics such as the first single, “Underneath The Tree,” and title track, “Wrapped In Red” as well as Christmas favorites, “Have Yourself A Merry Little Christmas”, “Blue Christmas”, “Run Run Rudolph,” “Please Come Home For Christmas” and many more. The full track listing will be announced soon.
The album’s first single, “Underneath The Tree,” was written by Kelly and hit songwriter/producer Greg Kurstin as well as produced by Kurstin. Kelly enlisted Kurstin who was one of her partner’s on the Grammy Award winning album Stronger. Together, Kelly and Greg bring a fresh, contemporary sound to this new holiday music ensuring the songs are big hits and evergreen holiday favorites.
Kelly states, “I’m super excited to put out my first Christmas record. I absolutely love Christmas music and have had a total blast recording and writing for it. I can’t wait for y’all to hear it.”
Clarkson recently kicked off the Honda Civic Tour with Maroon 5 on August 1st in St. Louis Missouri. The tour will end on October 6th in Los Angeles, CA at the Hollywood Bowl.
Since bursting onto the music scene 10 years ago, Kelly Clarkson has released 5 studio albums (Thankful, Breakaway, My December, All I Ever Wanted, Stronger), 1 Greatest Hits album, sold over 20 million albums worldwide, 10 million albums in the US and has had 10 singles in the top 10 on the Billboard Hot 100 Singles Chart. She is the recipient of 3 Grammy Awards, 4 American Music Awards, 3 MTV Video Music Awards, 2 Academy of Country Music Awards, 1 Country Music Association Award and 12 Billboard Music Awards. Clarkson’s last studio effort Stronger debuted at #2 on both the Billboard Top 200 and Digital Albums Chart. The album produced the smash singles, “Mr. Know It All” and “Stronger (What Doesn’t Kill You)” which marks Kelly’s 9th and 10th Top 10 hit. “Stronger (What Doesn’t Kill You)” was #1 on Billboard’s Hot 100 Chart for two consecutive weeks (3 weeks total) marking her 3rd #1 on the Hot 100 chart. Kelly spent last summer appearing as a mentor on ABC’s Duets as well as a guest mentor for Team Blake on NBC’s The Voice. Clarkson’s Stronger was certified Platinum by the R.I.A.A. and won the Grammy for Best Pop Vocal Album. Clarkson released Greatest Hits – Chapter 1 last year which featured 3 brand new tracks, including current single “People Like Us”, as well as a compilation of some of her greatest hits to date. Kelly recently released her country single, “Tie It Up,” which is currently rising up the Country charts.
For more information, please visit:
Official Website: www.kellyclarkson.com
Twitter: kelly🌷💞_clarkson
Facebook: www.facebook.com/kellyclarkson
For photos please visit: www.rcarecordspress.com
Contact:
Mika El-Baz – RCA Records
Mika.elbaz@rcarecords.com
Meghan Kehoe – RCA Records
Meghan.Kehoe@rcarecords.com
(New York, NY) – Grammy Award winner and multi-platinum recording artist Kelly Clarkson is set to release her first Christmas album, Wrapped in Red on October 29th. The album will feature brand new instant classics such as the first single, “Underneath The Tree,” and title track, “Wrapped In Red” as well as Christmas favorites, “Have Yourself A Merry Little Christmas”, “Blue Christmas”, “Run Run Rudolph,” “Please Come Home For Christmas” and many more. The full track listing will be announced soon.
The album’s first single, “Underneath The Tree,” was written by Kelly and hit songwriter/producer Greg Kurstin as well as produced by Kurstin. Kelly enlisted Kurstin who was one of her partner’s on the Grammy Award winning album Stronger. Together, Kelly and Greg bring a fresh, contemporary sound to this new holiday music ensuring the songs are big hits and evergreen holiday favorites.
Kelly states, “I’m super excited to put out my first Christmas record. I absolutely love Christmas music and have had a total blast recording and writing for it. I can’t wait for y’all to hear it.”
Clarkson recently kicked off the Honda Civic Tour with Maroon 5 on August 1st in St. Louis Missouri. The tour will end on October 6th in Los Angeles, CA at the Hollywood Bowl.
Since bursting onto the music scene 10 years ago, Kelly Clarkson has released 5 studio albums (Thankful, Breakaway, My December, All I Ever Wanted, Stronger), 1 Greatest Hits album, sold over 20 million albums worldwide, 10 million albums in the US and has had 10 singles in the top 10 on the Billboard Hot 100 Singles Chart. She is the recipient of 3 Grammy Awards, 4 American Music Awards, 3 MTV Video Music Awards, 2 Academy of Country Music Awards, 1 Country Music Association Award and 12 Billboard Music Awards. Clarkson’s last studio effort Stronger debuted at #2 on both the Billboard Top 200 and Digital Albums Chart. The album produced the smash singles, “Mr. Know It All” and “Stronger (What Doesn’t Kill You)” which marks Kelly’s 9th and 10th Top 10 hit. “Stronger (What Doesn’t Kill You)” was #1 on Billboard’s Hot 100 Chart for two consecutive weeks (3 weeks total) marking her 3rd #1 on the Hot 100 chart. Kelly spent last summer appearing as a mentor on ABC’s Duets as well as a guest mentor for Team Blake on NBC’s The Voice. Clarkson’s Stronger was certified Platinum by the R.I.A.A. and won the Grammy for Best Pop Vocal Album. Clarkson released Greatest Hits – Chapter 1 last year which featured 3 brand new tracks, including current single “People Like Us”, as well as a compilation of some of her greatest hits to date. Kelly recently released her country single, “Tie It Up,” which is currently rising up the Country charts.
For more information, please visit:
Official Website: www.kellyclarkson.com
Twitter: kelly🌷💞_clarkson
Facebook: www.facebook.com/kellyclarkson
For photos please visit: www.rcarecordspress.com
Contact:
Mika El-Baz – RCA Records
Mika.elbaz@rcarecords.com
Meghan Kehoe – RCA Records
Meghan.Kehoe@rcarecords.com
Kelly Clarkson Sees 'Red': The Billboard Cover Story
By Marisa Fox | October 18, 2013 11:30 AM EDT
For Clarkson, making a Christmas album was a chance to defy genre limitations and just be herself
This is an excerpt. For the complete story, buy this week's issue of Billboard.
Cradling a cherry red guitar and decked in a tartan plaid dress, poinsettia jacket and matching studded, strappy heels, Kelly Clarkson isn't exactly soft-pedaling her upcoming holiday album, "Wrapped in Red." And it hardly matters that Halloween is still weeks away. For the past year, Clarkson has had Christmas on her mind.
Conversations about Clarkson's sixth studio effort being a Christmas album started last December, and recording with Greg Kurstin--who produced Clarkson's 1.1 million-selling Billboard Hot 100 No. 1 "Stronger (What Doesn't Kill You)" and the four hits on P!nk's "The Truth About Love," which has sold 1.8 million, according to Nielsen SoundScan--began in May. RCA is shipping a half-million total units for pre-order on Amazon.com and Target.com.
For Clarkson, the disc represented a chance to break free of expectations. "I've been dying to make a Christmas album," she says, speaking in a high-octane pitch that telegraphs her enthusiasm about the project, which includes both originals and some twists on classics. "I always get asked what genre I'm in: 'Is this country or pop or rock? What are you?'" she says. "And what's cool about making the Christmas album was, 'Oh, there are no limitations! We can do whatever we want!'"
For RCA, the album is part of an all-out holiday assault during which the label will release not just Wrapped in Red but also the soundtracks to "Black Nativity," starring Jennifer Hudson, and "The Best Man Holiday," which features R. Kelly, Fantasia and Mario, and a Leona Lewis collection that puts a Motown spin on Christmas songs.
But the label has "Wrapped in Red" pegged as the one that will cross all formats and become a new holiday classic, boosted by Clarkson's NBC holiday special, "Kelly Clarkson's (Cautionary) Christmas Tale," in early December. "It's our main release this season," RCA VP of marketing Aaron Borns says. "The angle on this album is that, like all great Christmas records, it's about amazing vocal performances. That's what this is intended to be--an album launched this year but timeless and genre-defying."
"It's all over the map," Clarkson adds. "But in a good way."
"Wrapped in Red" covers lots of ground, from the Spector-sounding first single "Underneath the Tree" to the closing a cappella version of "Silent Night" with Reba McEntire and Trisha Yearwood. In between, there's a grab bag of covers. Some, like "Have Yourself a Merry Little Christmas" and "My Favorite Things," may seem like the hallmark of all holiday albums. But others, like Imogen Heap's "Just for Now," aren't.
"I just love that song," Clarkson says. "That was my family Christmas--highly dysfunctional, like, 'Can we just stop for like five minutes and have like a normal Christmas setting?'" To balance the drama, Clarkson offers the kitschy "Four Carats," an original she calls a cross between Eartha Kitt's "Santa Baby" and Madonna's "Material Girl." And there's a love song, "Winter Dreams"--which features a 50-piece orchestra--written for fiancé Brandon Blackstock, with whom she's eloping sometime before the holidays. But the biggest surprise is "Underneath the Tree," an optimistic tune that has Clarkson powering through Darlene Love-style vocals.
The only theme is in the title -- red. "There's just something about it that represents so many deep emotions, whether it's love or lust or envy or pain or beauty," she says. One could say the same for her personality--which also will be on full display when her NBC special airs. The show is the album's main marketing tool. And for Clarkson, whose career was launched on the first season of "American Idol" in 2002, the medium no doubt will help sell the songs--just as it has for artists like Michael Buble and Blake Shelton.
"Kelly Clarkson's (Cautionary) Christmas Tale" will be part comedy, part musical performances, the latter of which is taping in front of a live audience on Oct. 30 at the Venetian in Las Vegas. Tickets went on sale Oct. 15 through Venetian.com, and fans can also win tickets through radio station contests.
"I love [the Will Ferrell movie] 'Elf,'" Clarkson says. "I wanted to tell a real story, make a new classic, not just do some skits that aren't really related." It also will highlight performances with some of the album's guests, like McEntire--her future mother-in-law-Y-earwood and Ronnie Dunn.
"This will feature a full narrative with a beginning, middle and end," says Ian Stewart, co-founder of Dun and Dusted, the production company producing "Kelly Clarkson's (Cautionary) Christmas Tale." "And the spine is her singing. We'll have a young girl, narrating the story, sitting in an overstuffed chair in front of an amazing fire, reading the story from a book. And yes, it starts with 'once upon a time' and ends with 'happily ever after.'"
RCA is shooting a video for the first single, "Underneath the Tree," and the label also plans to take some of the show's performances and turn them into videos. "Songs, like 'Holy Night' with Reba and Trisha, which might come from the special, will go to country stations, and CMT will do some things with us, too," Borns says.
In terms of radio, "Underneath the Tree" will go to pop stations, "Please Come Home for Christmas" will be worked to AC and adult top 40, and "Baby, It's Cold Outside" will go to adult top 40 as well, Borns says. Clarkson will also embark on a short promotional tour in Europe, and the album's even being promoted in the Far East.
To the Texan native who'll be celebrating her second Christmas at her Nashville home with Blackstock, the album represents a sort of second phase for her career. The new year will bring pop and country releases, as well as a potential Broadway album. In a way, her Christmas CD represents a break from her past and a sampler of what's to come--like the holiday itself.
"The thing about Christmas is that it almost doesn't matter what mood you're in or what kind of a year you've had--it's a fresh start," says Clarkson, who adds that she's looking forward to her second decade in music. "I'm going to clear the air and take stock of the good that's happened."
And what if she hadn't met Blackstock--would the album have been quite so rosy? "I might have called it Wrapped in Green," she says with a laugh.
www.billboard.com/articles/news/5763083/kelly-clarkson-sees-red-the-billboard-cover-story
Kelly Clarkson kelly🌷💞_clarkson
Check out the cover of my Christmas album! I can't wait for y'all to hear it. #WrappedInRed pic.twitter.com/tIgmd4KtNJ
I have been dying to make this album since I was a kid! #WrappedInRed comes out Oct. 29th.
Sales:
Week Rank Sold Total
1 3 69,706 69,706
2 6 43,000 113,000
3 6 42,000 155,000
4 9 44,000 201,000
5 6 131,000 332,000
6 3 112,000 444,000
7 3 136,000 578,000
8 5 124,000 702,000