Kelly Clarkson has made history by become the first American Idol contestant to score 100 No. 1’s on the Billboard charts since her latest Piece By Piece landed at the top of Billboard’s Digital Songs & Pop Digital Songs charts.
The album marks Clarkson’s 11th Top 10 hit on Billboard’s Hot 100 charts with the title track remaining in the Top 10 on iTunes Songs chart. The Piece By Piece album shoots back into the Top 10 on Billboard’s Top 200 chart and is now certified Gold by the RIAA after releasing a remixed version on March 4th.
The Grammy-winning Clarkson has released six studio albums (Thankful, Breakaway, My December, All I Ever Wanted, Stronger, Piece By Piece), a Greatest Hits album, a holiday album, sold over 21 million albums worldwide, and has had 11 singles in the top 10 on the Billboard Hot 100 Singles Chart. She is the recipient of three Grammy Awards, four American Music Awards, three MTV Video Music Awards, two Academy of Country Music Awards, and one CMA Award. Clarkson’s sixth studio album, Piece By Piece debuted at #1 on Billboard’s Top 200 chart marking her third #1 debut on the chart and is certified Gold by the RIAA. Piece By Piece garnered two 2016 Grammy nominations (Pop Vocal Album and Pop Vocal Performance for her hit single “Heartbeat Song”).
Clarkson’s 2011 effort Stronger was certified platinum, won the Grammy for Best Pop Vocal Album and produced the smash singles, “Mr. Know It All” and “Stronger (What Doesn’t Kill You)” which mark 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 (three weeks total) marking her third No. 1 on the Hot 100 chart. In 2013, she released her very first Christmas album Wrapped In Red which debuted at No. 3 and was the biggest holiday album debut for a female since 2010 and is certified platinum. Clarkson is set to release her very first children’s book, River Rose and the Magical Lullaby on October 4th.
