Following on from her recent visit to Australia, Kelly Clarkson's Mr Know It All, the first single from her upcoming 5th studio album, Stronger, has this week reached the #1 position on the Aria Singles chart, knocking off Gotye's Somebody That I Used To Know's impressive 8 week reign.

Australians have long embraced Kelly Clarkson as one of their own, from her very first visit to our shores back in 2003, to each of her subsequent visits on each album release. This is the very first time though that one of her singles has reached the coveted #1 position on the Aria Singles chart, with Miss Independent (2003) and Since U Been Gone (2004) her highest charting singles previously reaching #3.

Due for release on Friday October 21st, the vibrant and musically diverse STRONGER (which Clarkson says was influenced by Tina Turner, Prince, Sheryl Crow, and Radiohead) will thrill those who love Clarkson for her resilience. The album is filled with candid, emotionally raw tunes like The War Is Over, Darkside, and Honestly, as well as You Love Me (in which Clarkson witheringly tells an ex "you're not good enough"), Einstein (the cad in question is dismissed with "Here's your keys, your bags, your clothes, and now get out of my place"), and the title track, which finds Clarkson putting a fresh spin on Nietzsche's adage that what doesn't kill you makes you stronger and declaring "it doesn't mean I'm over 'cause you're gone." That fact that these gutsy sentiments are wrapped in fizzy pop melodies, bright choruses, and driving dancefloor-friendly beats (crafted by such A-list producers as Rodney Jerkins, Greg Kurstin, Josh Abraham, and Toby Gad) only makes them that much more appealing.

"The whole album is very much about strength and empowerment, so STRONGER felt like the perfect title," Clarkson says. "Plus that song is just a gold mine — it's a little bit pop, a little bit pop-rock, a little bit urban, a little bit dance, and it ties everything in. And everybody loves that message. 'What doesn't kill you makes you stronger.' It's a perfect representation of my life."

As is well known by now, Clarkson first appeared on the public's radar in 2002 during the first season of American Idol. "When I auditioned, my apartment in Los Angeles had recently burned down and I had a box of photographs to my name," Clarkson says. "I figured I'd get to sing and make some money to pay the bills. Nobody thought that show was going to be what it is now." Of course Clarkson won and went on to become an international pop icon, selling over 20 million albums worldwide (including nearly 1 million in Australia) and notching eight singles on the Top 10 on the Aria Singles chart. She has released four studio albums, 2003's platinum No. 2 THANKFUL, 2004's 7x-platinum BREAKAWAY (which has sold over 12 million copies worldwide, spawned five Top 10 hits, and stayed on the charts for two years), 2007's platinum-selling MY DECEMBER, and 2009's platinum-selling ALL I EVER WANTED, which produced the smash singles My Life Would Suck Without You and Already Gone. Clarkson has also received two Grammy Awards, two American Music Awards, two MTV Music Awards, and 11 Billboard Music Awards.

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