SiriusXM announced today that GRAMMY and Emmy Award winning singer, songwriter, and television host Kelly Clarkson, has launched a new exclusive year-round SiriusXM channel, Kelly Clarkson Connection.
The new exclusive channel welcomes listeners into Kelly’s world. When tuning in, you will be surrounded by the music she loves, music she’s inspired by, and the stories behind the music from Kelly’s two-decade long catalog of award-winning hits. Besides the stories behind the songs in her own catalog, Kelly will take listeners on a journey through her favorite music and share insights into her favorite artists. Listeners will also hear from members of Kelly’s band, and lots of on-air celebration of Christmas.
Kelly Clarkson Connection, curated and presented by Clarkson, is SiriusXM’s newest 24/7 channel available to subscribers across North America in their cars on channel 12 or anywhere they go with the SiriusXM app. The exclusive year-round channel joins SiriusXM’s artist channel lineup which includes Carrie Underwood’s CARRIE’S COUNTRY, Drake’s Sound 42, the forthcoming Life With John Mayer and more.
“I’m excited to be launching this new channel in partnership with SiriusXM,” said Kelly Clarkson. “Music is such a personal experience for all of us, and I am stoked to have the opportunity to curate a channel of all of my favorites…I hope that people tune in and enjoy it as much as I loved making it!”
“Kelly Clarkson has captivated millions of fans through her music in her decades-long career and has become a friendly face serving up a dose of entertainment and pop-culture to viewers through her popular daytime television talk show,” said Scott Greenstein, SiriusXM’s President and Chief Content Officer. “It feels only natural to expand her world for her fans with her own daily audio experience that only she can create with her own channel, Kelly Clarkson Connection. We are thrilled to welcome Kelly to the SiriusXM family.”
Kelly Clarkson is one of the most popular artists of this era with total worldwide sales of more than 25 million albums and 40 million singles. The Texas-born singer-songwriter first came to fame in 2002 as the winner of the inaugural season of “American Idol.” Clarkson’s debut single, “A Moment Like This,” followed and quickly went to #1 on Billboard’s Hot 100, ultimately ranking as the year’s best-selling single in the U.S. Further, Clarkson is one of pop’s top singles artists, with 17 singles boasting multi-platinum, platinum and gold certifications around the world, including such global favorites as “Miss Independent” and “Because of You.”
Clarkson recently released chemistry, her tenth studio album and third full-length release with Atlantic Records, following 2017’s GRAMMY-nominated Meaning of Life and 2021’s When Christmas Comes Around (also nominated for a GRAMMY). chemistry is getting spectacular reviews to date and following 10 sold-out performances of her exclusive Las Vegas engagement, chemistry…an intimate night with Kelly Clarkson this past summer, the GRAMMY Award-winning global superstar has announced that she will return to Bakkt Theater at Planet Hollywood Resort & Casino for four shows over New Year’s Eve and Super Bowl LVIII weekends.
Clarkson has released nine studio albums previously (“Thankful,” “Breakaway,” “My December,” “All I Ever Wanted,” “Stronger,” “Wrapped in Red,” “Piece By Piece,” “Meaning of Life,” “When Christmas Comes Around…”), one EP, “Kellyoke,” one greatest hits album and two children’s books (New York Times Top 10 bestseller River Rose and the Magical Lullaby and River Rose and the Magical Christmas).
Clarkson recently kicked off season 5 of her multi-Emmy Award-winning daytime talk show, “The Kelly Clarkson Show.”
Clarkson was recently honored with the 2,733rd star on the Hollywood Walk of Fame and is the recipient of an array of awards, including three consecutive Daytime Emmy Awards for “Outstanding Entertainment Talk Show Host” for “The Kelly Clarkson Show,” three GRAMMY Awards, four American Music Awards, three MTV Video Music Awards, one MTV Movie & TV Award, two Academy of Country Music Awards, two American Country Awards and one Country Music Assn. Award. She is also the first artist to top each of Billboard’s pop, adult contemporary, country and dance charts.
