Kelsea Ballerini releases new album 'PATTERNS'

KELSEA BALLERINI
RELEASES NEW ALBUM
PATTERNS
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Kelsea Ballerini has today (October 25th) released her new album PATTERNS via Black River Entertainment. Intimate, but pop-inflected, personal, but somehow universal, PATTERNS reflects the young woman emerging from divorce and its aftershocks to assess her life with clear-eyed grace and a future that seems clearly pointed to a well-earned happily ever after.
Working with an all-female creative team, the four-time GRAMMY nominee looked to longtime collaborator Alysa Vanderheym, Songwriters Hall of Fame inductee Hillary Lindsey, GRAMMY Songwriter of the Year nominee Jessie Jo Dillon and Little Big Town’s Karen Fairchild to forge a sisterhood in song for the 15-song cycle that measures her life in far brighter shades. Or as Rolling Stone opines of the feminine force of creativity, “she sings about the lifelong power of ride-or-die friendship. What comes out is an album about turning life lessons into bops and today’s hardships into tonight’s drink orders.”
PATTERNS offers a judgment-free zone that feels good as it unpacks the patterns that get in our way and those special friends who pull up and get you through. Whether it’s the self-accepting perspective of ‘Nothing Really Matters’, the erotic charge of ‘Deep’, the girlfriends-forever bop ‘I Would, Would You’ or the ironic ‘We Broke Up’, Ballerini is once again crafting songs that reflect how life evolves if you’re present and wanting to experience it at full range of (e)motion. Even ‘Baggage’, with its owning all the pieces of the journey suggests Ballerini’s as committed to the voyage as she is sharing all the good, bad and hilarious with her people. 
Meanwhile lead single ‘Cowboy’s Cry Too’ featuring Noah Kahan is continuing to prove a major hit, quickly closing in on 100 million streams as it climbs country radio in the US and looks forward to the Country Music Association Awards where it is nominated for ‘Musical Event Of The Year’.
Regarding the new album Ballerini says, “PATTERNS marks the end of my Saturn return (thank the heavens).The beautiful and brutal look into myself and the people I love the most. The celebrations and challenges in the name of betterment, growth, and all-around elevated vibes. The healthy habits that I hold close and the ones that gotta go."
Ballerini continues, "Written from my truest self, but meant for you to project onto your own lives and try on for fit. Whether you relate, want a song to cry in the back of an Uber music video style to, dramatically/drunkenly tell someone how much you love them, or scream sing about moments gone wrong before they went right…it’s all yours." 
To mark PATTERNS’ release, Ballerini is playing a special album release concert at Madison Square Garden on October 29th which sold out in minutes. Truly a bucket list moment, she is celebrating the power of her emergence as a writer/artist finding a new level of creativity and connection.
Ballerini is now set to take her captivating live show to another level on her 30-city, three-month US arena tour KELSEA BALLERINI LIVE ON TOUR, kicking off on January 21st 2025. Fans can register now for access to the KELSEA BALLERINI LIVE ON TOUR presale at kelseaballerini.com.About Kelsea Ballerini
Kelsea Ballerini has consistently made history. With the release of her debut album, The First Time, she became the only female country artist to hit #1 with the first three consecutive singles from a debut album. This history-making feat earned her a “Best New Artist” GRAMMY nomination.
She has logged five back-to-back Top 10 entries on the Billboard Top Country Albums chart, including the platinum-selling The First Time (2015), gold-selling albums Unapologetically (2017) and gold-selling kelsea (2020), ballerini (2020) and SUBJECT TO CHANGE (2022). With seven #1 singles and 33 certifications from the RIAA to date, her catalogue boasts a string of essential smashes. 
Among dozens of accolades thus far, Ballerini has garnered four GRAMMY nominations, won two ACM Awards, picked up two CMA Awards, took home the iHeartRadio Music Awards honour for “Best New Artist,” and received multiple career nominations from the ACM Awards, American Music Awards, CMA Awards, CMT Awards and People’s Choice Awards. Ballerini was also inducted as a member of the famed Grand Ole Opry in 2019. At the time, she notably became the Opry’s youngest member in its nearly 100-year history since being founded in 1925.  
Expanding her sphere of influence, Ballerini authored her first original book of poetry, Feel Your Way Through (2021), and Dolly Parton tapped her to star in the audiobook of Run, Rose, Run (2022). This same year, the multi-platinum country superstar was named the newest face of CoverGirl. She entered into a multi-year partnership and launched a cosmetic collaboration with the brand in 2023. 
Ballerini’s fourth album, SUBJECT TO CHANGE, arrived in 2022. The gold-certified first single, ‘HEARTFIRST’, earned her a GRAMMY nomination for “Best Country Solo Performance.” She went on to surprise fans five months later with the release of the intimate six-song Rolling Up the Welcome Mat, which earned her a GRAMMY 
nomination for “Best Country Album”. 
Rolling Up the Welcome Mat, along with an accompanying short film written and directed by Ballerini, led to her Saturday Night Live debut, universal acclaim from critics including The New York Times, Variety, Rolling Stone, as well as the honour of gracing the cover of TIME Magazine.
Kelsea Ballerini released her latest studio album PATTERNS on October 25th (via Black River Entertainment). On the album she enlisted "Best New Artist" GRAMMY nominee Noah Kahan to appear on the tender and beautifully crafted - and CMA awards nominated “Musical Event of the Year” - single ‘Cowboys Cry Too’, following the pair’s incandescent performance on the 2024 Academy of Country Music Awards.
In addition to her new music, Ballerini currently serves as the face of COVERGIRL and Pantene and recently announced she is set to serve as Coach on Season 27 of NBC’s The Voice, premiering in Spring 2025. With these accolades, it is no wonder NPR proclaimed, “Kelsea Ballerini is definitely one of the most influential women in country right now... she’s defining the sound of the genre.”