Kelsea Ballerini Takes her First Top 10 Hit to the NBC’s TODAY

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Pictured: TODAY’s Hoda Kotb and Kathie Lee Gifford with Kelsea Ballerini
(Courtesy of Black River Entertainment)

It has been really great to see the path Kelsea Ballerini is on open up wider for her day by day. She is approaching her career with such a refreshing realism! Check out her interview from earlier this year, and see why I am rooting hard for her to achieve everything she’s hoping for.

Kelsea’s ‘Love Me Like You Mean It’ recently broke into the country radio top 10, and she stopped by NBC’s TODAY this week to give the song an extra push.

Check out the press release for more details:

Black River Entertainment recording artist Kelsea Ballerini continues to rack up the firsts and adds her recent (5/21) national TV debut performance on NBC’s TODAY to the list. After dishing with show hosts Hoda Kotb and Kathie Lee Gifford about her breakthrough success, celeb shout-outs, and songwriting, Ballerini performed her popular Top 10-and-climbing hit single “Love Me Like You Mean It.”

“Love Me Like You Mean It” (Ballerini, Whitehead, Kerr, Carpenter) is featured on her debut album THE FIRST TIME, available now. Produced by Forest Glen Whitehead and Jason Massey, the project highlights Ballerini’s skillful songwriting and contagious personality on all 12 songs.

Newly crowned one of CMT’s Next Women of Country, Ballerini has been abuzz with recent shout-outs from superstars Taylor Swift, Little Big Town, Kristian Bush and TODAY’s Hoda Kotb and landing on several 2015 “Ones to Watch” lists, including Billboard, Country Weekly, Rolling Stone Country, The Huffington Post, Radio.com, Spotify, #CMChat and more. Racking up the firsts, she scored her first-ever award show nomination for the 2015 CMT Music Awards Breakthrough Video of the Year (“Love Me Like You Mean It”). Airing live on CMT June 10 at 8/7 CT, fans can vote now at http://www.cmt.com/cmt-music-awards/vote/breakthrough-video-of-the-year.jhtml.

Ballerini is wrapping the CMT’s NEXT WOMEN OF COUNTRY Tour – the network’s first-ever ladies-only tour – this Thursday (5/28) in Myrtle Beach, SC. She will also join select dates on Lady Antebellum’s WHEELS UP Tour throughout the summer.

Hailing from Knoxville, TN, Ballerini moved to Nashville, TN at age 15 to chase the dream of becoming a songwriter. At age 19, she signed a publishing deal with Black River Publishing in 2013 and later that year signed a record deal with Black River Entertainment.

For tour dates and more, visit KelseaBallerini.com. Reach out to her on Facebook, Twitter, Instagram and YouTube.

 

Liv Carter

Liv Carter

Liv is a career coach for creatives, and the people who work with them.
She holds several certificates from Berklee College of Music, and a certificate in Positive Psychology from UC Berkeley.
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