Chemistry is the upcoming tenth studio album by American recording artist Kelly Clarkson. It will be released on June 23, 2023, through Atlantic Records. The album is produced by Clarkson's longtime collaborators, Jason Halbert and Jesse Shatkin, as well as newcomer Erick Serna. The fourteen track-list features collaborations with Steve Martin and Sheila E..

Chemistry illustrates "the arc of an entire relationship", showing every emotion you experience from the beginning to the end.

Clarkson started working on the follow-up to her 2017 album, Meaning of Life, in 2019. In June 2020, she announced her divorce from husband Brandon Blackstock. Prior to the divorce, she described the album as if Breakaway (2004) and Stronger (2011) had a baby, and more like Meaning of Life. When she appeared on Sunday Today with Willie Geist in September 2020, she then described the album as every emotion you experience from the beginning to the end of a relationship. She calls it the most personal one she has ever released, and it has been therapeutic for her.[3] Clarkson mentioned she had written around sixty songs while going through her divorce.

In a September 2022 interview with Variety, Clarkson talked about the album. She said she had been working on it for two years; it was an important one, and a lot of the songs were recorded two years earlier (2020). When the divorce happened, she needed to write about it. She told her label, "I can't talk about this until I've gone through it," and it's just taken some time to do that. That's one of the reasons we've done a lot of the Christmas stuff the past two years – because I was like, "Well, that's happy!" Describing the record, she says, "And it's not all bad – like, there is heartbreak in it, and there is sadness in it."

In January 2023, during an Instagram live, she mentioned she had just done the album photo shoot with Brian Bowen Smith.While appearing on Angie Martinez's Angie Martinez IRL podcast, Clarkson mentioned one of the songs on the album is called "Red Flag Collector".

Release and promotion[edit]

In a September 2022 interview with Variety, Clarkson announced she would release the album in 2023, calling the album "important" and citing music as "helpful" in vocalizing what she feels. On March 25, 2023, Clarkson tweeted wine, heartbreak and sunshine emojis, which is how she described the album while appearing on Access Daily in January 2023. The following day, she announced on social media album's title and announced it would be released "soon".

On April 24, 2023, to help celebrate the release of the album, Clarkson performed the entire Chemistry album at the Belasco Theatre in Los Angeles. The show was taped.

Clarkson will promote the album during a ten night Las Vegas residency, Chemistry: An Intimate Evening with Kelly Clarkson. It will run from July 28 to August 19, 2023, at the Bakkt Theater.