My December

My December
Kelly Clarkson's studio album
Publication (s)	June 22, 2007 (Germany, Switzerland, Austria and Italy) June 23, 2007 (Australia and New Zealand) June 24, 2007 (Netherlands) June 25, 2007 (France, Great Britain, Ireland and Poland) June 26, 2007 (USA and Canada)
Label (s)	RCA Records
Format (s)	CD
Genre (s)	Pop , rock
Title (number)	13 + 1 (hidden song)
running time	50:24
occupation	see cast
production	David Kahne
Studio (s)	Mower Studios, Pasadena, CA Village Recorders, Santa Monica, CA SeeSquaredStudios, New York City, NY Clinton Studios, New York City, NY
chronology Breakaway (2004) My December All I Ever Wanted (2009)

My December ( English for: " My December ") is the third studio album by the American singer and songwriter Kelly Clarkson . My December debuted at number one on the United World chart with 390,000 units sold. By 2010 the album had sold over 3 million times worldwide.

Emergence

Clarkson began writing titles for the album on the Behind These Hazels Eyes tour , which she then played on her Addicted tour . This included songs like Maybe , Anymore and Yeah . Kelly Clarkson said in several interviews that she wrote all the songs herself, either as a songwriter or as a co-writer. David Kahne, the album's producer, said he and Clarkson wrote 60 songs for the album, 27 of which were recorded. Kelly Clarkson was asked by her label if she would like to record a song from Lindsay Lohan's album A Little More Personal , Clarkson declined. She recorded her songs in four different studios in the United States.

background

promotion

Kelly Clarkson sang One Minute as the opening guest for the NASCAR Daytona 500 race at Daytona International Speedway on February 18, 2007 .

On February 27, 2007 the title of the album was announced by Clarkson on their website.

The pre-release single Never Again was released for US radio stations on April 13th and as an online download on April 23rd.

On May 30th, AOL Music added commercials from Sober , Maybe and a slightly modified version of Can I Have A Kiss? Having Haunted and Can I Have A Kiss? could be heard on May 22nd during Clarkson's promotional tour.

At the beginning of June, the second single was released for the radio in the USA, as the first single flopped on the radio compared to the airplay of the songs by Breakaway .

Between June 22nd and June 26th, My December was released in over twenty countries.

Conflict with the record company

Some sources reported that Clive Davis , CEO of Sony-BMG , was dissatisfied with Clarkson's album and wanted to re-record the material that had already been recorded. According to these sources, Clarkson did not want to do this and refused to change anything about the songs. This worsened the relationship between Clarkson and Davis. Clive Davis then testified in several interviews that he did not want to unsettle Clarkson and affirmed her importance at Sony-BMG as one of the four most important artists of the record company. Also, there was a rumor that Clarkson would have made $ 12 million from Davis for including 6 non-self-written songs on her album. Clarkson confirmed in an interview that she was offered "a certain sum of money".

In an interview, Clarkson stated that her record company found the album too negative lyrically and too dark melodically. Your record company would not believe that the album could build on the success of Breakaway . Kelly Clarkson compared her album to that of Bruce Springsteens , Nebraska . Nebraska would have been completely non-commercial, but would have received widespread acceptance and good reviews.

The Elle Magazine said Clarkson, Clive Davis her 10 million dollars offered if they would swap five of its songs with five songs of their choice, which Clarkson refused. The conflict has now drawn other artists who supported Clarkson, such as Simon Cowell and Reba McEntire .

The high point so far was reached when Clarkson fired her manager Jeff Kwatinetz for disagreement over the choice of songs and musical direction.

subjects

Embassies

Clarkson chose the title My December for her album because she had had a rough year and wanted to express with the title that she was waiting for January to start over.

Ex-friends

Clarkson's song Never Again is about her ex-boyfriend, whom Clarkson already addresses in the songs Where Is Your Heart and Behind These Hazel Eyes , both of which are on her predecessor Breakaway . According to MTV , the sung ex David Hodges is . Clarkson does not provide any information about the person, however.

In the song, Clarkson wishes him the following:

“I hope the ring you give her turns her finger green. I hope when you are in bed with her that you think of me. "

Clarkson also sings that she no longer wants to have any more contact with him, Kelly Clarkson expresses this as follows:

“I will never hear you again. I'll never miss you again I will never fall for you again. Never! I will never kiss you again. I will never want you again. I will never love you again Never!"

From the text it can be concluded that Clarkson already forgave him once because she never uses the adverb of time again . In addition, she describes a female person in the song who is naive to him, even though she knows that when the time comes, he will leave her. Since Clarkson's songs are mostly autobiographical (with the exception of the songs on Thankful ), it is likely that the sung Clarkson herself depicts how naively she acted and has now drawn her conclusions from it.

Influences

Clarkson has confirmed influences from the single You Oughta Know , released in 1995 by Alanis Morissette , related to her song Never Again . In addition, she would have influenced Pat Benatar's music, which is why someone from her label didn't like the song because of the similarity.

success

Chart placements

Charts	Top ranking	Weeks
Chart placements
Germany (GfK)	5 (9 weeks)	9
Austria (Ö3)	8th (9 weeks)	9
Switzerland (IFPI)	5 (11 weeks)	11
United Kingdom (OCC)	2 (8 weeks)	8th
United States (Billboard)	2 (18 weeks)	18th

Awards for music sales

My December has been awarded 3 × gold and 2 × platinum worldwide. According to awards, the album was sold more than 1.2 million times.

Country / Region	Award	Sales
Awards for music sales (country / region, Award, Sales)
Australia (ARIA)	gold	35,000
Ireland (IRMA)	gold	7,500
Canada (MC)	platinum	100,000
United States (RIAA)	platinum	1,000,000
United Kingdom (BPI)	gold	100,000
All in all	3 × gold, 2 × platinum	1,242,500

Main article: Kelly Clarkson / Music Sales Awards

Singles

Chart placement

year	title	Top ranking, total weeks, awardChart placementsChart placements (Year, title, , Placements, weeks, awards, comments)					Remarks
		DE	AT	CH	UK	US
2007	Never again	DE19 (9 weeks) DE	AT36 (8 weeks) AT	CH27 (12 weeks) CH	UK9 (8 weeks) UK	US8th gold (16 weeks)US	First published: April 13, 2007
	Don't waste your time	DE93 (2 weeks) DE	-	-	-	-	First published: October 29, 2007

Song information

Never again

Never Again is the pre-release single of the album My December and was released in April first for radio stations and then for download in the US. It was announced on April 4th on Clarkson's international website. The music video was filmed in Los Angeles April 11-13. The world premiere of the video took place on May 1st in the American version of TRL . In Germany, VIVA took the music video to the highest novelty rotation level in the first week. Never Again is Kelly Clarkson's first song, which entered the top 10 on the Billboard Hot 100 in its first week . She sang it in the sixth season finale of American Idol, among others .

Sober

Due to the fact that Never Again was commercially successful, but already six weeks after the release of some major radio stations was taken out of their rotation list on the radio, the record company Sober decided to release before the album realese. It was released to US radios on June 6th.

Don't waste your time

Don't Waste Your Time was released in Great Britain in October 2007, and finally in Germany, Brazil and Bulgaria in mid-December. The single was only placed above the TOP 100 in England and Brazil, in Germany only at number 93 and in Brazil it reached its highest position, namely number 39. Another big setback after the release of the third album, which did not match the sales figures of the previous album reached.

Track list

1. Never Again (Clarkson / Messer) - 3:36
2. One minute (Clarkson / DioGuardi / Kreviazuk / Maida) - 3:05
3. Hole (Clarkson / Messer / Baker) - 3:01
4. Sober (Clarkson / Eubanks / Messer / McEntire) - 4:50
5. Don't Waste Your Time (Clarkson / Messer / Pardon / Rinman) - 3:35
6. Judas (Clarkson / Messer / Baker) - 3:36
7. Haunted (Clarkson / Halbert / Messer) - 3:18
8. Be Still (Clarkson / Eubanks) - 3:24
9. Maybe (Clarkson / Messer / Eubanks) - 4:22
10. How I Feel (Clarkson / Messer / Baker) - 3:40
11. Yeah (Clarkson / Messer / Pardon / Rinman) - 2:42
12. Can I Have a Kiss? (Clarkson / Messer / Baker) - 3:29
13. Irvine (Clarkson / Eubanks) - 4:15
14. Chivas (Clarkson) - 3:31 (Hidden Song)

Note: Only the first thirteen songs are officially mentioned on the CD, but there are fourteen because Chivas is a hidden song that begins five minutes and twenty seconds after Irvine begins.

Bonus tracks

On iTunes there are three songs in addition to the official tracklist and for those who pre-ordered the album a fourth, called Not Today and the fifth Fading .

• Dirty Little Secret - 3:34
• Never Again (Dave Aude Remix) (Clarkson / Messer) - 4:11
• Never Again (Dave Aude Club Mix) (Clarkson / Messer) - 7:55
• Not Today [Pre-Order Only] - 3:30 am
• Fading - 2:51 [Pre-Folder Only]

Unpublished songs

In addition to Dirty Little Secret and Not Today , which cannot be found on the version of My December that is in stores, there are other songs that Clarkson decided against to put on the album

• Too Much (Clarkson / Messer)
• Racehorse (Clarkson / Messer)
• Far From Home (Clarkson / Messer / Pardon / Rinman)
• Where are you now? (Clarkson / Messer)
• Did you? (Clarkson / Kahne / Pardon / Rinman)
• Something I Never Had (Clarkson / Peiken / Shanks)

occupation

• Kelly Clarkson (vocals, songwriter)
• David Kahne (producer, keys)
• Jimmy Messer (songwriter, guitar)
• Billy Mohler (bass)
• Shawn Pelton (Drums)
• Jason Halbert (songwriter, keys)
• Kara DioGuardi (songwriter)
• Chantal Kreviazuk (songwriter)
• Michael Raine Maida (songwriter)
• Dwight Baker (songwriter)
• Aben Eubanks (songwriter)
• Calamity McEntire (songwriter)
• Antoine Silverman (violin)
• Joyce Hamman (violin)
• Entcho Todorov (violin)
• Hiroko Taguchi (violin)
• Paul Woodiel (violin)
• Lori Miller (violin)
• Cenovia Cummins (violin)
• Roger Shell (cello)
• Wendy Sutter (cello)
• Erik Friedlander (cello)
• Sarah Seiver (cello)
• Jeff Carney (bass)
• Aaron Heick (alto saxophone)
• Andrew Sterman (tenor saxophone)
• Andy Laster (baritone saxophone)
• Malcolm Pardon (songwriter)
• Mike Watt (bass)

tour

Even before the album was released, a tour was announced that would include concerts in North America. When asked if she was touring the UK, Kelly Clarkson replied that there would be a tour later in 2007. Mat Kearney was to be the opening guest.

On June 14, Live Nation announced that the tour would be canceled due to slow ticket sales.

• My December Tour ( Starts July 11, 2007 Portland , 37 cities in North America ) Canceled

Web links

• Kelly Clarkson's international homepage
• Kelly Clarkson's German homepage

Individual evidence

1. ↑ Kelly Clarkson takes a stand, won't sing Lindsay Lohan songs. Retrieved May 14, 2007 . 
2. ^ "My December Trouble". (No longer available online.) Archived from the original on June 7, 2007 ; Retrieved June 5, 2007 . Info: The archive link was inserted automatically and has not yet been checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice.  
3. ↑ "Kelly to Clive: Shove It". Retrieved May 8, 2007 . 
4. ^ "Rumors Surround New Kelly Clarkson Album" (AOL). Retrieved May 11, 2007 . 
5. ↑ "Hits Daily Double." Retrieved May 11, 2007 . 
6. ^ "Kelly in Control". Retrieved June 27, 2007 . 
7. ^ "Elle Cover Story: Kelly Clarkson". (No longer available online.) Archived from the original on September 27, 2008 ; Retrieved June 27, 2007 . Info: The archive link was inserted automatically and has not yet been checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice.  
8. ^ "Kelly Clarkson Fires Manager". Retrieved June 27, 2007 . 
9. ↑ Your record company didn't like the album my December. (No longer available online.) Archived from the original on April 29, 2007 ; Retrieved April 25, 2007 . Info: The archive link was inserted automatically and has not yet been checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice.  
10. ^ ^{A b} "Kelly Clarkson On Her Revealing New LP: 'I'm Not Even This Open With Boyfriends!" " Retrieved April 19, 2007 . 
11. ↑ Clarkson in the song Never Again , 2007

    “I hope the ring you gave to her turns her finger green. I hope when your in bed with her, you think of me. "

12. ↑ Clarkson in the song Never Again , 2007

    “Never again will I hear you. Never again will I miss you. Never again will I fall to you. Never! Never again will I kiss you. Never again will I want to. Never again will I love you. Never !. "

13. ↑ Kelly Clarkson - My December chart position Germany. GfK Entertainment , accessed on January 18, 2016 . 
14. ↑ Kelly Clarkson - My December chart position Austria. In: Austriancharts.at. Hung Medien, accessed January 18, 2016 . 
15. ↑ Kelly Clarkson - My December chart placement Switzerland. In: Hitparade.ch. Hung Medien, accessed January 18, 2016 . 
16. ↑ Kelly Clarkson - My December chart position United Kingdom. The Official UK Charts Company, accessed January 18, 2016 . 
17. ↑ Kelly Clarkson Chart history. Billboard , accessed January 18, 2016 . 
18. ^ ARIA Charts - Accreditations - 2007 Albums. ARIA, accessed January 18, 2016 . 
19. ↑ Ireland 2007 Certification Awards. IRMA, accessed on January 18, 2016 . 
20. ^ Gold / Platinum Database - Music Canada. Music Canada, accessed January 18, 2016 . 
21. ^ RIAA Gold / Platinum Database. Recording Industry Association of America , accessed January 18, 2016 . 
22. ↑ Certified Awards Search. British Phonographic Industry, accessed January 18, 2016 . 
23. ↑ kellyclarkson.de: Unofficial songs. (No longer available online.) Archived from the original on September 29, 2007 ; Retrieved July 18, 2007 . Info: The archive link was inserted automatically and has not yet been checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice.