Kelsea Nicole Ballerini shortly named Kelsea Ballerini is an American pop singer as well as a songwriter. She began songwriting as a child and signed with Black River Entertainment in 2014, releasing her debut studio album the following year, "The First Time". The album consists of 12 songs in the standard edition of the album making the album more than 40 minutes long. It peaked at #4 in the US Country Albums list with more than 78,000 sales in the U.S. In the year 2017, she released her second studio album "Unapologetically". She has four No. 1 singles on the latter, starting with her debut single "Love Me Like You Mean It", which made her the first female artist to send a debut single to the top of that chart since Carrie Underwood in the year 2006. Her third and fourth studio albums, "Kelsea" and "Ballerini" were both released in the year 2020. Her first recorded television appearance was on the Radio Disney Music Awards in the year 2015.