Alternative titles to this post included: “So You Think You Can Dance: Books a Musical Guest Who Can Actually Sing,” “So You Think You Can Dance Musical Guest: With 100% Less Lip Syncing,” “So You Think You Can Dance: Keeping It In The Fox Family.”

Courtesy of a Fox press release we learn that this week’s musical guest will be Kelly Clarkson. Or as I like to call her, someone with actual musical talent. Sure, she was discovered by FOX’s other hit reality show, American Idol, which makes it seem a bit cross-promotional but there’s no denying: Kelly Clarkson can sing. Kelly will perform her new hit “I Do Not Hook Up” and hopefully, unlike the other musical guests this season, she will actually sing.

While Kelly will be this week’s musical guests, professional dancers Desmond Richardson and Patricia Hachey will perform a Pas de Deux as this week’s guest dancers. You may remember Desmond Richardson for the lovely Pas de Deux he choreographed for Katee Shean and Will Wingfield last season.

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That’s set for this week guys!

Also, more news on Kelly’s new video. Joseph Kahn is the director, and its not known yet when the video will be premiered.

That could all change with her upcoming third single, “Already Gone,” written by Clarkson herself and produced by Ryan Tedder. While the song may resemble listeners of Beyonce’s “Halo” in the opening riff, what will overpower those comparisons is Clarkson’s likeability factor as well as heartbreaking lyrics. Tedder co-wrote both tracks. However, Clarkson had lyrically written her version while Beyonce barely had a hand in it after “demanding” a track like Clarkson’s. Kelly Clarkson’s penned song is a tear-jerking ballad with haunting vocals of having to leave someone. “Already Gone” sums up a previous relationship Clarkson had where it just couldn’t and wouldn’t work, no matter what road they took, someone of the two had to leave and it would be her. It had to be her more so because of her high profile career that prohibits her from making enough time for a relationship.

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So Kelly lost the award to Lady Gaga, and Poker Face. But it’s alright, the performance was amazing. If you haven’t watched it yet, the Much Music Video Awards youtube channel provided it here. We’ve also got some pictures from the event:

Kelly’s performance at Nova Radio in Australia was released, of her singing “Already Gone”. I guess we can assume that Already Gone is her newest single now. The song’s amazing! Send an email to me for an mp3 version of the Youtube video, which we provided below:

Almost forgot, I’ve uploaded tons of photos to the gallery, including the gorgeous photoshoot that she was in Australia for (thanks to Sheeda!).

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The Jonas Brothers, Kelly Clarkson, Lady Gaga, the Black Eyed Peas…the 2009 MuchMusic Video Awards Show pulls out all the stops for Canadian fans.

Hear that sound? It’s the gush of Jonas Brothers fans counting down the seconds until the über-boy pop stars swoop into Toronto to co-host the 2009 MuchMusic Video Awards.”

“The MMVAs always put on a ridiculously amazing awards show. But this year, it will be the first time we’ve ever had a celebrity co-host,” says MuchMusic VJ Sarah Taylor. [...]

Beyonce, Britney Spears, Kanye West, Katy Perry, Kelly Clarkson, Lady Gaga, Lil’ Wayne, Miley Cyrus, Kevin Rudolf and T.I. are among the big-name artists vying for International Video of the Year.

First-ever American Idol Kelly Clarkson will perform for this year’s screaming fans. [...]

The 2009 MuchMusic Video Awards air live on Sunday, June 21 at 9 p.m. ET from MuchMusic’s Queen Street West headquarters in downtown Toronto.

The MMVA 09 Red Carpet Special airs live at 8 p.m.

MMVA wristband holders can line-up for the show beginning at 6 a.m. on Sunday.

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Okay, so I just saw this. It’s from today, but the events are in addition to what happened yesterday:

Kelly Clarkson holds up a giant foam camera and snaps away like paparazzi at a toy store in Australia on Wednesday (June 2).

The 27-year-old American Idol alum later her way down a rainy Sydney street to conduct a television interview with Channel Ten

Kelly is Down Under promoting her fourth studio album, All I Ever Wanted, which has been certified ‘Gold’ in Australia.

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Kelly visited Hong Kong to do a mini-concert:

HONG KONG: Rock-pop sensation Kelly Clarkson showed fans in Hong Kong why she’s known as “the girl with the big voice”.

Despite having sold over 20 million records worldwide, Clarkson was surprised by the enthusiastic feedback during her first visit to Hong Kong.

She said: “I honestly didn’t expect anyone to really know me. So performing last night, I mean people were singing the lyrics to all the songs. So that was very inviting and welcoming.”

Clarkson was in town to promote her fourth album “All I Ever Wanted”, in which she co-wrote six songs.

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She also let it known that she’s a big Susan Boyle fan, since the latter won ‘Britain’s Got Talent’:

“I think it’s awesome. I’m bawling whenever I hear her sing,” Clarkson told The Associated Press in Hong Kong, saying Boyle’s rendition of “I Dreamed a Dream” from the musical “Les Miserables” sounded beautiful.

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I’ll be sure to have some pictures of Kelly in Hong Kong soon!

The numbers are in!  Kelly Clarkson’s fourth album, All I Ever Wanted is tearing up the charts!

For the second week in a row, Ms. Clarkson sold approximately 90,000 more copies beating out competition:  The Dream, Taylor Swift & Vertical Horizon.

Congrats Kelly!  If you haven’t picked up your copy of All I Ever Wanted, do so ASAP!  Let’s keep Kelly at #1 where she belongs….