Tuesday, June 17, 2025

UPDATE Kelly Clarkson’s Latest Single Sold Very Few Copies, Not Enough to Leave Her Thriving Talk Show

Share

I keep seeing reports about Kelly Clarkson and her talk show.

Her staff is worried that she’s going to leave them behind and return to being a pop star.

Someone should tell her it’s a bad idea.

Clarkson released a single a month ago called “Where Have You Been?”

In the end, no one cared. Or everyone knew where she’d been. The single sold 20,000 copies including 8,000 downloads. The rest was from streaming. It just never took off.

Clarkson has her own label with distribution deal at Atlantic Records. That gets Atlantic off the hook for most of the work. Kelly’s coming with a new album next month, but if the songs are as dreary as “Where Have You Been?” it’s not going to fly. At least with the talk show, she has a forum

Donate to Showbiz411.com

Showbiz411 is now in its 13th year of providing breaking and exclusive entertainment news. This is an independent site, unlike the many Hollywood trades that are owned by one company. To continue providing news that takes a fresh look at what's going on in movies, music, theater, etc, advertising is our basis. Reader donations would be greatly appreciated, too. They are just another facet of keeping fact based journalism alive.
Thank you


Roger Friedman
Roger Friedmanhttps://www.showbiz411.com
Roger Friedman began his Showbiz411 column in April 2009 after 10 years with Fox News, where he created the Fox411 column. His movie reviews are carried by Rotten Tomatoes, and he is a member of both the movie and TV branches of the Critics Choice Awards. His articles have appeared in dozens of publications over the years including New York Magazine, where he wrote the Intelligencer column in the mid 90s and covered the OJ Simpson trial, and Fox News (when it wasn't so crazy) where he covered Michael Jackson. He is also the writer and co-producer of "Only the Strong Survive," a selection of the Cannes, Sundance, and Telluride Film festivals, directed by DA Pennebaker and Chris Hegedus.

Read more

In Other News