Top 10 Kelly Clarkson Performances That Made Us Cry

[@MsMojo]

Which of her powerful renditions brought you to tears? Share your favorite emotional moments in the comments below!

[@dannymorgan7252]

She is the result of America truly choosing its winner before producers got too deep into interfering with decisions. She’s a literal voice of a generation and deserves all the flowers

[@yvettevalencia8651]

Piece by Piece is everything that is Kelly Clarkson’s greatness. I full on cry every time I hear it.

[@trinaq]

Kelly has such a beautiful voice. I remember listening to "Breakaway" when I was preparing to leave home for the first time, and it resonated with me so much. ❤

[@robinpeterson7843]

Quiet uptown tears me up every time.

[@tesisau123]

At least an honorable mention: The Dance cover by Garth Brooks. That had me in my feels for dayyyyyyssss

[@indddyconfetti]

Yesss! Should have been an honorable mention!

[@rhettmitchell]

That should’ve been top 5

[@tesisau123]

@@rhettmitchell agreed, I thought it was a shoe in for top 2 with piece by piece

[@nestorperez6867]

Oh yes!

[@katerinasimpson1100]

The original Idol will always be the best. She clearly puts so much emotion and energy into her powerful performances.

[@seraphyn22]

Kelly, unlike many technical singers, puts it all out there and sings from her soul. This is why, no matter what she sings, she touches you. As you feel her emotion in every sung word. Not many famous vocalists today have this ability. She is a true idol.

[@kittyimeow]

I had the pleasure of meeting and doing some security for her when she came to Kuwait in 05. She was such an amazing person! So kind, warm and HILARIOUS!!! She is by far the best celebrity I have ever met!

[@manuelcarlino]

That performance of Piece by piece is one of the hardest and most beautiful songs she's ever done.

[@DaniBauerTHEGoddess]

I have never related to a singer's music so often, as I do her. Her music has always resonated with me,from her 1st single to her most recent.

[@wendyodell356]

What can I say, Kelly's PHENOMENAL! ❤❤❤

[@TheAmericanIdol]

Kelly can and does sing any genre flawlessly. What an incredible artist and my gosh she is the real deal.

[@RavenBrianne]

That’s why she’s the OG. 🐐

[@timschimmel5150]

Girl. I loved you since your touching true, and heart of A Moment Like This'. I was hooked. You rock. You love You give. You come out on top. Love you always. ❤️

[@Sarah-l6b1r]

My favorite is Beautiful Disaster❤❤❤

[@indddyconfetti]

Yes, the piano version is incredible. My email (and username on some sites) has been hesmagicandmyth for like 20 years now.

[@andreamaria85]

When Kelly Clarkson’s version makes you cry more than the original! Clean already did it for me when it was released!

[@ivanhernandez9579]

My favorite Kelly Clarkson songs are Since U Been Gone and Stronger (What Doesn't Kill You)

[@samuelcollantes1175]

It's definitely none other than "Piece by piece" it really gets me to her story. Happy sunday night, Kirsten. Take care and God bless you. Greetings from Colombia to you as well.

[@suehileman9586]

Try listening to her "HEALED VERSION"where she rewrote some of them lyrics after her divorce. She performed it during h her Las Vegas Residency.

[@samuelcollantes1175]

@@suehileman9586 maybe i will, someday

[@benandjerry-dalmatians1910]

Not gonna lie, that AI version of Piece By Piece gets me every time

[@kittyimeow]

Same!

[@danielmitchell5184]

Seriously! She was going through so much at the time so her emotions were real and it just made the song so much more authentic and real...

[@PaulSaayman]

There are 2 performances that I think should have been included, when she did the Wide awake cover of Katy Perry as well as The dance from Garth Brooks.

[@ericryanyawl9401]

She truly does not have the ability to phone it in. Every single performance is an emotional ride.

[@kellygittinger1282]

Kelly Clarkson really does have a beautiful voice and beautiful heart, I always call my niece a look a like kelly clarkson

[@stephanielauren987]

I love this woman with my whole heart!

[@Ramontweet]

She is the moment.

[@jr3n3]

Kelly's version of Billie Eilish's Happier Than Ever was *iconic*! That shouldve made it here.

[@sockygaldamez9492]

She is like one of my favourite singers growing up and I still love her to this day ❤️❤️ her voice is just so beautiful and memorising like she takes you on a journey every time she sings and that’s why I get really emotional when I hear Because Of You and Piece By Piece 🥹 and thats why these performances shown here are like her most brilliant ones ♥️♥️

[@indddyconfetti]

Love seeing Kelly countdowns! But I wish there had been some honorable mentions in this video like her cover of Billie Eilish’s “Happier Than Ever” and the cover of “Shelter” (the Ray LaMontagne song) that she did for the Hurricane Katrina benefit.

[@martin-oj8mc]

Her rendition of I will always love you is the best thing I ever heard....

[@waittillfamewtf2385]

"Miss Independent" forever!

[@nestorperez6867]

Well, since you ask, I remember watching her singing "she used to be mine", "losing my mind" and more recently "remember me". Oh, boy. I was on the floor crying 😭

[@vonterriojones]

She has a song literally called Cry.

[@kendrabryant4738]

She just did a fantastic Kellyoke of it a few days ago too!

[@annalissac]

Kelly may not sell as many albums as Taylor, nor have the vocal range of Ariana, but her ability to emote and make you feel the lyrics makes her one of my favorite vocalists ever. She really is up there with the legends

[@nacho615]

Is arianas vocal range better? 🤔 i think kelly is one of the best

[@stephanielauren987]

Kelly's range is on another level no offense Ariana we love you but Kelly is the vocalist of our generation period!

[@kendrabryant4738]

I wouldn’t say that Kelly is lacking in the range department at all… she hits all the big high notes like all the other greats and her low notes have gotten better in recent years as well. Her ability to emote so well is definitely one of the reasons that she’s my favorite female singer though.

[@shawnleong3605]

Kelly Clarkson does not have the vocal range of Ariana? Girl what are you smoking

[@acupofdepresssso]

Doesn't have the vocal range of Ariana? Huh? 😂 This is like when Alicia Keys said "I have the biggest range of anyone here" while sitting right next to Kelly on The Voice lol Kelly's expression after she said that was accurate, and all of us too 😂

[@TheMassEffectKrantt]

She did an amazing cover of Selena's Dreaming of you

[@jenniwilliams3295]

That night she sang piece by piece you cried but also we're so happy for her for finding that. It's heartbreaking that it turned out to be a lie. She sings a different version of it in Vegas and it's amazing and powerful. Cry literally has always made me cry and lighthouse from chemistry is the one that gets me which is the one she said that she wrote when she knew everything was over. But honestly I don't think she's ever sung a song that I didn't think was fabulous.

[@cristinamartin2507]

Loving that you are posting Kelly material, but i would've chosen the grammy performance for because of you.

[@indddyconfetti]

Oh, that one was INCREDIBLE.

[@YDVDNVRR]

She Used to be Mine and Up To The Mountain shoul be in this list.

[@user-ix1kg9jo9u]

Where's Tightrope (live)??? And Lighthouse???

[@justineves3588]

Very very great epic list I like it a lot very very great job mis mojo one of my absolute favorite list ever she is one of the very best singers ever 😊❤

[@aldrinianbustos1503]

Her performance of I Didn't think about you in the Voice was full of emotions love ittt❤

[@bigjso]

I would change Piece by piece and put A moment like this at #1. That moment can't be replicated and they tried for 25 seasons. ❤

[@calliope34]

Merry Christmas to the One I Used to Know came out right after my own divorce and gets me EVERY time

[@nancyvasquez3621]

I love all of them but Piece by Piece is the one that breaks my heart. She explained that she wrote it about her father leaving when she was young and you can feel her pain when she sings it. She also performed a song on her Christmas special after her divorce called Merry Christmas (to the one I used to know) that she also got emotional while singing it. She is an amazing person with a fabulous voice who is a gift to all of us.

[@nephelim9491]

Gush he Hazel eyes performance. Probably one of thale reasons I fell in love with kelly. She really did great on that stage.

[@MCMNasty2]

Still get moved to tears by her victory performance on AI. She’s so real.

[@kendrabryant4738]

Some that I would have included are: Tightrope, Beautiful Disaster, Maybe, Sober, Merry Christmas (to the One I Used to Know), Skip This Part, Cry, The Dance (Garth Brooks cover to honor him), Already Gone, Just Missed the Train, etc. I’m sure that there are more that I’m just not thinking of right now. I would advise you to maybe play more of the songs in your videos. We only got a couple seconds of each song. If anyone were to watch that wasn’t familiar with those songs or performances, they wouldn’t see enough to understand why they’re so emotional.

[@acupofdepresssso]

Seeing Kelly's "Piece By Piece" performance on AI, while she's pregnant with her 2nd child with her husband who she really loved and trusted, was a happy kind of cry. Like, oh man she deserves all these good things (And she still does, mmkay?). And watching it now, knowing how awful he was and how he ended up also breaking her heart, is a sad cry BUT with pride because of how well she's currently doing ❤

[@t4d4ever79]

I do love her voice and her real heart emotions shows and that comes out whole from the pain in her eyes that's Whitney song made me choak up and number 4 and 3 I felt her pain Also praise given for fixing the roof on my swing 🙌 🙏 thank you 😊

[@sarahramsey9454]

love her for any and beyond so fun so catchy mesmerizing

[@robinpeterson7843]

Hey cover of Teddy swims Some things I'll never know.

[@folasadeadedapo]

A moment like this still makes me cry every time I hear it. Lol she is America's singer. I'm not sure a season winner of AI has really come close to her....

[@blugreen123]

Her cover of "I'm Gonna Be (5,000 Miles)" and the performance of "Piece By Piece" on American Idol. 😢

[@suehileman9586]

Piece by Piece was on here

[@kendrabryant4738]

I forgot about that cover! Yes that one was emotional!

[@GinaBetsabe]

Can we listen to what she is singing? You didn’t let us enjoy this pretty emotional performances, cause you never stopped talking.

[@rickieallen2832]

Amen to that!

[@sharondunn6199]

Great performances by Kellie... Just such a shame the commentator spoke through every song!!

[@rauaal-mudhaffar3109]

Well for me it will always be - Never again the iTunes Sessions version. My God the hurt you hear in this pierces you directly in your heart while you listen to it. It unearths the hurt of rejection and heartbreak you kept inside for a long time.

[@cynthianeal7186]

The new updated version of Piece by Piece from her Vegas show! She needs to release that!

[@carolfritsch7930]

Really.. sorry first of all… I would listen to her all day.. As far as hitting notes… she blows all of them right up through the ceiling..

[@christineschloss7217]

Too much commentary; not enough singing!!

[@renaharris-falgout5967]

Video would be amazing if the commentator talked less and let me enjoy Kelly's performances. Not finishing video.

[@jeanninecarrado2013]

First

[@robyn2595]

Why put together these songs that are supposed to make us cry and then talk over the entire thing! Talk about stupid! Leave the commentary for either before or after, not during! I don't understand how people think. They've obviously got a screw lose or just don't actually take the time to think things through in other words shut up

[@moigonzaga]

I would have added “Merry Christmas (To the one I used to know)” (the special televised program) from her latest Christmas album. The emotions throughout the song but in particular near the end of the song, a tear was about to fall. 😭❤️‍🩹

[@indddyconfetti]

I can’t believe I forgot about that one. It was so good.

[@nancyvasquez3621]

I agree!

[@olliesmith2890]

Dislike for Number 4, shame on anyone to do with that. If you are butt hurt by my comment, its fine, be butt hurt.

[@bigsiebuzz1728]

Slow news day?

[@TheSarFamilyy]

Yeah yeah yeah, I think her voice is okay and a bit boring

[@shawnleong3605]

Hater and loser.

[@maureendavis9257]

Who cried? Manipulated vocals and illusions and lip synching aren't really tear jerking . Maybe if she was some person with 11 views I would care what she was singing. Walk away people..if nobody watches them they will have to be poor just like us people who are led to believe we are all unwanted and untalented.

[@dannymorgan7252]

Get bent. Kelly never lip syncs. She has a literal hatred and phobia of it. Kelly’s real

[@og3673]

lol. who hurt u when u were young? never lip synched in over 22 years? literally the best singer alive today. go get help

[@indddyconfetti]

Sincerely and honestly think you need to speak to someone. You sound like you have real issues you need to work through. I hope you get better one day.

[@suehileman9586]

Where do you even think you see lip syncing, illusions or manipulation? Kelly has sang live every time, even in freezing cold temperatures when other singers have said they lip synced. Two exampes come to my mind, President Obama's Inauguration and the 2015 or 2016 Macy's Thanksgiving Parade. Do your research before you get on here spilling nonsense!!!v

[@kendrabryant4738]

Your facts are all wrong and not factual at all.

[@bilalsarkac]

'I know you won't' .. VH1 unplugged version is the best!