Kelsea Ballerini

Kelsea Ballerini (2016)

Kelsea Nicole Ballerini (* 12. September 1993 in Knoxville , Tennessee ) is an American country pop - singer .

Career

As a teenager, Kelsea Ballerini went to Nashville to pursue a career as a singer. It took her four years to find a label for her releases in Black River Entertainment. Her first single, Love Me Like You Mean It , was released in 2014 and became a huge hit. It became the most played song on country broadcasters, rose to number 5 in the US country charts and was also successful in the pop singles charts . It eventually went platinum .

In the same year an EP was released and six months later the debut album The First Time . As the highest position in the country charts, it reached number 4, stayed in the charts for over a year and a half and achieved gold status . With Dibs and Peter Pan it also produced two singles, both of which also became radio hits. Both went platinum and Peter Pan was also a number one hit on the country charts. In 2015 and 2016 Ballerini was nominated for best singer and in the newcomer category at the CMA Awards . She won the ACM Awards in 2016 as a newcomer. She was also one of the five nominees for newcomers at the Grammy Awards .

Her second album Unapologetically was released on November 3, 2017 . Although it reached number 7 on the official album charts, it was no longer as successful as its predecessor. With Yeah Boy , Legends and I Hate Love Songs it contained three gold singles. For the first time, the album also placed her in the UK charts in Europe . The following year she was the singer with This Feeling by the Chainsmokers and so also came into the charts in other European countries such as Austria and Switzerland. On April 16, 2019, she was inducted into the Grand Ole Opry .

Discography

Albums

year	title	Top ranking, total weeks, awardChart placementsChart placements (Year, title, rankings, weeks, awards, notes)			Remarks
		UK	US	Country
2015	Kelsea Ballerini	-	-	Country40 (5 weeks) Country	EP
	The first time	-	US31 gold (100 weeks)US	Country4 (123 weeks) Country
2017	Unapologetically	UK50 (1 week) UK	US7th gold (20 weeks)US	Country3 (74 weeks) Country
2020	Kelsea	UK84 (1 week) UK	US12 (12 weeks) US	Country2 (... weeks) Country

Singles

year	Title album	Top ranking, total weeks, awardChart placementsChart placements (Year, title, album , rankings, weeks, awards, notes)					Remarks
		AT	CH	UK	US	Country
2014	Love Me Like You Mean It The First Time	-	-	-	US45 platinum (18 weeks)US	Country5 (32 weeks) Country	Authors: L. Carpenter, F. Whitehead, J. Kerr, K. Ballerini
2015	Dibs The First Time	-	-	-	US58 platinum (17 weeks)US	Country7 (28 weeks) Country	Authors: R. Griffin, J. Duke, K. Ballerini, J. Kerr
2016	Peter Pan The First Time	-	-	-	US35 platinum (20 weeks)US	Country1 (27 weeks) Country	Authors: J. Lee, K. Ballerini, F. Whitehead
	Yeah boy the first time	-	-	-	US65 platinum (13 weeks)US	Country9 (31 weeks) Country	Authors: K. Ballerini, F. Whitehead, K. Timmer
2017	Legends Unapologetically	-	-	-	US68 gold (12 weeks)US	Country10 (37 weeks) Country	Authors: H. Lindsey, F. Whitehead, K. Ballerini
2018	I Hate Love Songs Unapologetically	-	-	-	US- gold US	Country28 (25 weeks) Country	Authors: T. Rosen, S. McAnally, K. Ballerini
2019	Miss Me More Unapologetically	-	-	-	US47 platinum (20 weeks)US	Country7 (33 weeks) Country	Authors: B. McLaughlin, D. Hodges, K. Ballerini
	Homecoming Queen? Kelsea	-	-	-	US65 platinum (13 weeks)US	Country14 (29 weeks) Country
2020	Hole In a Bottle Kelsea	-	-	-	-	Country33 (... weeks) Country
	The Other Girl Kelsea	-	-	-	US95 (1 week) US	Country19 (... wk.) Country	with Halsey
The following songs did not appear as single, but were made available for download and streaming through the album and were thus able to achieve a placement:
2017	Unapologetically Unapologetically	-	-	-	-	Country32 (1 week) Country	Authors: H. Lindsey, K. Ballerini, F. Whitehead
	High School Unapologetically	-	-	-	-	Country28 (1 week) Country	Author: K. Ballerini

Guest Posts

year	Title album	Top ranking, total weeks, awardChart placementsChart placements (Year, title, album , rankings, weeks, awards, notes)					Remarks
		AT	CH	UK	US	Country
2018	This feeling sick boy	AT50 (7 weeks) AT	CH88 (3 weeks) CH	UK63 silver (7 weeks)UK	US50 gold (20 weeks)US	-	The Chainsmokers feat. Kelsea Ballerini Authors: E. Warren, A. Pall, A. Taggart
2019	Center Point Road Center Point Road	-	-	-	-	Country31 (2 weeks) Country	Thomas Rhett feat. Kelsea Ballerini Authors: T. Rhett, A. Wadge, J. Frasure, C. Wilson

swell

1. ^ Database of the CMA Awards
2. ↑ ACM Awards database
3. ↑ Kelsea Ballerini Invited to Join Grand Ole Opry , Lauren Laffer, Sounds Like Nashville, March 5, 2019
4. ↑ ^{a b c} Chart sources: AT CH UK US
5. ↑ ^{a b c} Music Sales Awards: UK US

Web links

Commons : Kelsea Ballerini  - Collection of images, videos and audio files

• Ballerinis website (English)
• Kelsea Ballerini at Allmusic (English)