--- title: Kelly Clarkson Drops New Single 'Heartbeat Song' description: 'Heartbeat Song' is part of her new album, 'Piece by Piece.' canonical: https://time.com/3663993/kelly-clarkson-drops-new-single-heartbeat-song/ author: Entertainment Weekly article:opinion: false article:content_tier: free article:published_time: 2015-01-12T17:47:19.000Z article:modified_time: 2026-02-22T03:29:53.414Z article:section: Entertainment og:title: Kelly Clarkson Drops New Single 'Heartbeat Song' og:description: 'Heartbeat Song' is part of her new album, 'Piece by Piece' og:url: https://time.com/3663993/kelly-clarkson-drops-new-single-heartbeat-song/ og:site_name: TIME og:image: https://static.time.com/v3/assets/bltea6093859af6183b/bltec2fe03ea5dce244/6987796f5f570f5229b14a42/kellyclarkson.jpg?branch=production&width=3840&quality=75&auto=webp&crop=16:9 og:image:width: 1200 og:image:height: 675 og:image:alt: KellyClarkson og:type: article twitter:card: summary_large_image twitter:title: Kelly Clarkson Drops New Single 'Heartbeat Song' twitter:description: 'Heartbeat Song' is part of her new album, 'Piece by Piece' twitter:image: https://static.time.com/v3/assets/bltea6093859af6183b/bltec2fe03ea5dce244/6987796f5f570f5229b14a42/kellyclarkson.jpg?branch=production&width=3840&quality=75&auto=webp&crop=16:9 ---  # Kelly Clarkson Drops New Single 'Heartbeat Song' by [Madison Vain / Entertainment Weekly](/author/entertainment-weekly/) ## Madison Vain / Entertainment Weekly Jan 12, 2015 5:47 PM CUT  Clarkson attends the 2014 American Country Countdown Awards at Music City Center on Dec. 15, 2014 in Nashville, Tennessee. Clarkson attends the 2014 American Country Countdown Awards at Music City Center on Dec. 15, 2014 in Nashville, Tennessee.Jason Merritt— Getty Images by [Madison Vain / Entertainment Weekly](/author/entertainment-weekly/) ## Madison Vain / Entertainment Weekly Jan 12, 2015 5:47 PM CUT Kelly Clarkson called into the Elvis Duran and The Z100 Morning Show on Monday to discuss her new single and revealed the name of her seventh studio album along the way. Clarkson says the collection will be released during the first week of March and is titled _Piece by Piece_. The first-ever winner of _American Idol_ is back with “Heartbeat Song.” It has all the trappings of a good, if not great, pop tune: It’s anthemic, upbeat, a little bit synthy, and anchored by a catchy, easy to sing-along-with chorus (“This is my heartbeat song and I’m gonna play it/Been so long I forgot how to turn it up up up up all night/Oh up up all night long”). Of course, the most welcome facet of Clarkson’s return to new music—this is her first non-holiday recording since 2011’s Grammy-winning _Stronger—_is the singer’s voice. She handles a crescendo like few others can, and anchors the poppy, busy production backing with remarkable control over her instrument. It wisps when it should, it builds as it should, and while the track may not be country, there’s always that slightly-southern, charming twang at the edge of each note. Clarkson’s full album is expected in the first quarter of this year. Stream the track below. _This_ [_article_](http://www.music-mix.ew.com/2015/01/12/kelly-clarkson-heartbeat-song/ "undefined") _originally appeared on_ [_EW.com_](http://www.ew.com "undefined")_._ ```json [{"@context":"https://schema.org","@type":"NewsArticle","@id":"https://time.com/3663993/kelly-clarkson-drops-new-single-heartbeat-song/","mainEntityOfPage":{"@type":"WebPage","@id":"https://time.com/3663993/kelly-clarkson-drops-new-single-heartbeat-song/"},"headline":"Kelly Clarkson Drops New Single 'Heartbeat Song'","datePublished":"2015-01-12T17:47:19.000Z","dateModified":"2026-02-22T03:29:53.414Z","description":"'Heartbeat Song' is part of her new album, 'Piece by Piece'","url":"https://time.com/3663993/kelly-clarkson-drops-new-single-heartbeat-song/","keywords":["Music","American Idol","kelly clarkson"],"thumbnailUrl":"https://static.time.com/v3/assets/bltea6093859af6183b/bltec2fe03ea5dce244/6987796f5f570f5229b14a42/kellyclarkson.jpg?branch=production&width=1200&quality=75&auto=webp&crop=1200:675&height=675","author":[{"@type":"Person","name":"Madison Vain / Entertainment Weekly"}],"articleSection":"Entertainment","image":[{"@type":"ImageObject","url":"https://static.time.com/v3/assets/bltea6093859af6183b/bltec2fe03ea5dce244/6987796f5f570f5229b14a42/kellyclarkson.jpg?branch=production&width=1200&quality=75&auto=webp&crop=1200:675&height=675","width":1200,"height":675,"headline":"KellyClarkson","caption":"Clarkson attends the 2014 American Country Countdown Awards at Music City Center on Dec. 15, 2014 in Nashville, Tennessee.","creditText":"Jason Merritt— Getty Images","representativeOfPage":true}],"publisher":{"@type":"Organization","name":"Time","url":"https://time.com/","logo":{"@type":"ImageObject","url":"https://time.com/images/logo.png","width":528,"height":156},"foundingDate":"March 3, 1923","sameAs":["https://www.facebook.com/time","https://www.instagram.com/time/?hl=en","https://twitter.com/time","https://www.pinterest.com/timemagazine"]}},{"@context":"https://schema.org","@type":"BreadcrumbList","itemListElement":[{"@type":"ListItem","position":1,"item":{"@id":"/section/entertainment/","name":"Entertainment"}},{"@type":"ListItem","position":2,"item":{"@id":"https://time.com/3663993/kelly-clarkson-drops-new-single-heartbeat-song/","name":"Kelly Clarkson Drops New Single 'Heartbeat Song'"}}]}] ```