


Musically, the song is written in the key of G-flat major with a fast tempo of 149 beats per minute. After pitching the song to different artists, including Demi Lovato, she later found out during the Christmas season that Clarkson had recorded it and planned to release the song as the album's lead single. In an interview on Entertainment Tonight, Mae revealed that DioGuardi came up with the main idea and used it as the song's chorus, with everybody else contributing in. "Heartbeat Song" was written by Mitch Allan, Audra Mae, Kara DioGuardi, and Jason Evigan in a two-day session writing camp. The song was nominated for Best Pop Solo Performance at the 58th Annual Grammy Awards.

Clarkson premiered "Heartbeat Song" in a live televised performance on The Graham Norton Show in February 2015 and has performed it on The Tonight Show Starring Jimmy Fallon and the fourteenth season of American Idol. Internationally, it became a top ten hit single in Austria, Poland, South Africa and the United Kingdom while also becoming a top 20 hit in the national charts of the Czech Republic, Germany, Mexico, Slovakia and Sweden.įilmed by Marc Klasfeld, its accompanying music video features a scenes of various downtrodden people and their process of finding love again. It also became her fifth song to top the Billboard Hot Dance Club Songs chart and marked as her highest debut among her twenty career entries on the Billboard Adult Top 40 chart. Commercially, the single debuted on the Billboard Hot 100 chart at number 37 and has peaked at number 21, marking Clarkson's sixteenth top 40 hit on the chart. Other critics, however, noted the strong resemblance the song's melody bore to that of Jimmy Eat World's single "The Middle" (2001), which later allowed the band to be credited as additional songwriters. "Heartbeat Song" was released to a positive response from music critics, who complimented the song's production and praised Clarkson's decision to return to mainstream pop music. Inspired by 1980s synthpop music, "Heartbeat Song" was released by RCA Records as the album's lead single on January 12, 2015. Lyrically, it sings of meeting a person who restores someone's faith in love. Written by Mitch Allan, Audra Mae, Kara DioGuardi, and Jason Evigan, with additional co-writing credits by the members of the American band Jimmy Eat World, the song is an uptempo synthpop track produced by Greg Kurstin. On Pop Songs, the song pushes 21-19 (up by 22 percent)." Heartbeat Song" is a song by American singer Kelly Clarkson from her seventh studio album, Piece by Piece (2015). 48 with an 8 percent boost to 32 million. The collab that serves as pop listeners’ introduction to Latin superstar Royce rises 63-56 on the Hot 100. “Prayer” lifts 5-4 on the Hot Dance/Electronic Songs chart. Sales are kicking in, too, as it debuts on Digital Songs at No. 31 for a second week on Radio Songs (39 million, up 1 percent). The haunting dance track climbs into the Hot 100’s upper half (53-47), with radio airplay its greatest contributor, as it bullets at No. 22 premiere of the song’s Fifty Shades-themed video. They should rocket more next week, following the Jan. Its streams also vault, by a whopping 542 percent to 1.8 million. Still, radio is interested: the ethereal track grows by 95 percent to 14 million in audience and debuts at No. The bulk of the song’s activity is from sales, although it drops by 19 percent to 64,000 in its second week on Digital Songs (13-16). 10, three days before the film opens in theaters), reaches the Hot 100’s top 40, leaping 45-36 in its second week. The track, co-written by Max Martin and Tove Lo, among others, from the Fifty Shades of Grey soundtrack (due Feb. 45 debut on the Billboard Artist 100 chart. All the action additionally sparks Clarkson’s No. As previously reported, Clarkson scores her highest debut on the Adult Pop Songs airplay chart, where “Heartbeat” thumps in at No. It also logs a 110 percent increase to 17 million in all-format radio audience. Sales lead the way, as the single starts on Digital Songs at No. 37, marking her third-best debut of 25 career entries.

The lead single from Clarkson’s March album Piece by Piece jumps onto the Hot 100 at No.
