Kelly Clarkson wrapped the Meaning of Life Tour after 28 shows across the country. According to figures reported to Billboard Boxscore, Clarkson grossed $17.5 million and sold over 275,000 tickets, making it the highest grossing tour of the first American Idol winner’s career.
The tour performed consistently well, selling out all 28 performances and bringing in no less than $450,000 per night. The tour hit a high point at the TD Garden in Boston, where Clarkson grossed $1.011 million on March 8. This figure makes it her biggest single-night engagement in nearly 15 years. Previously, she had grossed $1.306 million at the Reliant Stadium in her hometown of Houston, Texas (March 16, 2004).
The biggest earner of her career came from 2006’s Addicted Tour, where she pulled in $1.385 million from a double-header at Nikon at Jones Beach Theater in Wantagh, N.Y.
The Meaning of Life Tour eclipses the Addicted Tour and the Breakaway World Tour, both of which supported Clarkson’s 2004 blockbuster release Breakaway. Those tours grossed $9.1 million and $9.7 million, respectively, elevating Clarkson from large theaters and scaled-down arenas to sold-out amphitheaters.
These final grosses bring Clarkson’s career total to $60.7 million, including her solo headline touring combined with her co-headline runs with The Fray, fellow Idol finalist Clay Aiken, and Reba McEntire. Among American Idol contestants, she only trails Carrie Underwood ($177.9 million).
(Separately, Queen recruited Adam Lambert as their acting vocalist beginning in 2014. Billed as Queen + Adam Lambert, these shows have earned $96.2 million, according to figures reported to Billboard Boxscore).
The Meaning of Life Tour is Clarkson’s first trek promoted by Messina Touring Group and AEG Presents, another in a long line of homeruns for the pair of promoters, alongside 2019 runs by Eric Church and Blake Shelton, and following 2018 stadium tours by Ed Sheeran, Taylor Swift, and Kenny Chesney.
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Kelly was on The Tonight Show with Jimmy Fallon. She discusses The Voice and Ugly Dolls, among other things. Check out her interview and live performance below as well as photos. Enjoy!
Kelly was on The Ellen Show yesterday discussing Ugly Dolls, The Kelly Clarkson Show, The Voice, and more! Check out some clips below.
Singer Kelly Clarkson chats with WYFF News 4’s Gabrielle Komorowski about her new talk show coming to WYFF 4 this fall.
I’ve added photos of Kelly from NBC’s New Years Eve where she performed Heat. Thanks to my friend Claudia for these. Also check out a mini interview from prior to the NYE bash. Enjoy, and happy new year!
From now on, every Kennedy Center Honors ceremony needs at least one song about a sex worker. It can be “Fancy” every time, if need be. As part of the celebration of Reba McEntire, Clarkson did what we mere karaoke singers cannot: utterly crush “Fancy” and look cute doing it. The Kennedy Center released a small clip of Clarkson’s performance, but the whole show is available on CBS All Access. Besides McEntire, the 2018 honorees were Cher, Philip Glass, Wayne Shorter, and the creative team behind Hamilton.
Clarkson is married to McEntire’s stepson, and the American Idol winner started her number by thanking Reba for “being a rad grandma to our kids.” She also asked Reba not to judge her. But girl, that judgment would be in your favor.
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Moments after Chevel Shepherd was named the Season 15 champ of “The Voice” on Tuesday, her coach, Kelly Clarkson, got choked up marveling at the 16-year-old country artist’s finale performance of “Broken Hearts” a night earlier.
“She made it just pure country, and it’s beautiful. I was listening to her last night and I was like, ‘I remember like before, when I was like her. You just remember that point of your life,’ ” she told USA TODAY, as her eyes teared up thinking about the performance and the memory. “I’m so glad this isn’t on video. I’m always caught crying. … My makeup artist hates me.”
Shepherd took her cue from her coach, saying she was now going to cry. Clarkson offered a word of advice: “Don’t join me. Fight it.”
But all the tears were joyful ones as the teen from New Mexico and the superstar coach celebrated the NBC singing competition victory backstage with a press conference, photos and numerous interviews. And there was nonteary joy, too.
“It’s crazy. I feel so excited,” Shepherd told USA TODAY.
“It feels freaking awesome to win again,” said Clarkson, enjoying her second trip to “The Voice” winner’s circle after Brynn Cartelli’s Season 14 victory last spring. “I’ve just believed in (Chevel) since the blind auditions. She’s been a little favorite of mine.”
She was especially pleased to triumph against fellow coach and country music star Blake Shelton, a frequent “Voice” winner who has masterfully guided country competitors, including Chris Kroeze and Kirk Jay, two of this season’s final four.
“We beat Blake with a country artist!” Clarkson said triumphantly, bringing her arm down in an overhand motion and exclaiming: “Boosh! That is like the best drop the mic.”
Shepherd was hardly certain about winning going into Tuesday’s finale, nearly two hours of musical performances that ended with about five minutes of tension when host Carson Daly announced eliminations and the winner.
“I had no idea what was going to happen because all four artists were incredible and we’re all so different,” she said. “Each of the country artists, me, Kirk and Chris, were all different aspects of country, so I didn’t know what would happen. I was just out there praying.”
Clarkson worried that having three country singers in the finale would make it tougher for Shepherd to win.
“So that’s why I kind of prepared her: ‘It doesn’t matter if you win, girl.’ I thought they were going to split the country vote, and I thought it would be Kennedy (Holmes),” who finished fourth, Clarkson said. “It’s amazing it’s Chevel, but Kennedy, Chris and Kirk deserved it (too). They all worked really hard. And it matters what you do after, regardless of if you win or not.”
For Shepherd, that means working on a music career, but first she’s headed home to Farmington, New Mexico, where “my whole town is freaking out right now, as we speak. I want to thank them personally because they’ve done so much. They had a watch party at my high school and it was at capacity, and they all voted for me.”
Once the celebration quiets a bit, “I’m just going to be a normal teenager for a little bit and then work on an album.”
As for that album, “I want to start putting my own classic country music out there and show the world who Chevel really is and who she really wants to be as a country artist,” she said. “I love Loretta (Lynn) and Dolly (Parton) and just the honky-tonkish but classic country sound. I want to put out an album like that.”
Clarkson said she “would be involved as much as (Shepherd) wants me to be” in her career and offered to set her up with songwriters and producers. Shepherd and some other Season 15 competitors, including Abby Cates, Kymberli Joye and Sarah Grace, will perform with Clarkson on her tour as Clarkson, who won the first “American Idol” and is known for her refreshing candor, has added some elements to her touring performance to prepare for her upcoming daytime talk show.
Clarkson sees similarities between her two “Voice” winners, Shepherd and Cartelli, and herself. “All three of us are workhorses.”
As a former “American Idol” winner who moved on to a very successful music career, Clarkson hopes she can offer the kind of perspective that wasn’t available when she won Fox’s singing competition in 2002.
“I had a conversation with Brynn at my house. I said, ‘We’re going to be working. You’re going to be doing radio and all this stuff. Take care of yourself, and tell us when you need a break. Don’t feel like you’re being lazy or a diva. You’ve got to take care of yourself first and then you’ll be able to do your best at what you do,’ ” she said. “I wish I had somebody saying that to me, so that’s what I tell them and how I help them. I didn’t have anyone.”
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