Sony Music Entertainment Australia is thrilled to announce the signing of US emerging pop-country star, Kelsea Ballerini. Kelsea’s first release with Sony Music Entertainment is her current studio album, “The First Time”. The digital and physical albums are both available as of Friday, January 15th.
Kelsea will visit Australia for the first time this March, where she will perform at the Snowy Mountains Country Music Festival on March 5th, the CMC Music Awards on March 10th & airing LIVE on Foxtel and CMC Rocks Queensland March 12th-13th.
Kelsea’s refreshing approach to music is deeply rooted from a vulnerable place. Turning to song-writing to help her through her parents’ divorce, she first discovered Keith Urban’s ‘Stupid Boy.’
Life got rocky when I was 12,” Kelsea explains, “and this gift of song-writing just fell into my lap. It was literally this blessing that came at the perfect time. And for me, it’s always been that steady thing in my life that I can always go back to.”
Kelsea exploded onto the scene in 2015, becoming the first female artist in ten years to top the ‘Billboard Country Airplay’ chart, with her debut single ‘Love Me Like You Mean It.’ With champions including pop superstar Taylor Swift, Kelsea received the ‘Rising Star’ award at the ‘Billboard’s Woman in Music’ event in New York in late 2015 (an award won by Ariana Grande the previous year) and received her first ‘American Music Award’ and ‘CMA Award’ nominations.
She was also named Radio Disney’s ‘Next Big Thing’ and Billboard’s ‘Top New Country Artist’ of 2015, as well as being listed as an ‘Artist to Watch’ by Rolling Stone, Spotify and The Huffington Post.
THE FIRST TIME COMPLETE TRACK LISTING
1. XO
2. Peter Pan
3. Love Me Like You Mean It
4. Square Pegs
5. The First Time
6. Looking At The Stars
7. Sirens
8. Secondhand Smoke
9. Dibs
10. Stilettos
11. Yeah Boy
12. Underage
Kelsea is a writer on every track of “The First Time”, which features her blockbuster US #1 debut single ‘Love Me Like You Mean It’ and her latest single ‘Dibs,’ which has just hit the Top #10 on the ‘Billboard Country Airplay’ chart.
For tour dates and more information, visit KelseaBallerini.com and follow her on Facebook, Twitter, Instagram and YouTube.
