The First Time is the debut studio album by American country pop singer Kelsea Ballerini. It was released on May 19, 2015, by Black River Entertainment. The album's track listing and cover art was released on April 1, 2015. With the album's first three singles all reaching number one on the Billboard Country Airplay chart, Ballerini became the first new female artist to send her first three releases to the top of the charts. The First Time is the debut studio album by American country pop singer Kelsea Ballerini. It was released on May 19, 2015, by Black River Entertainment. The album's track listing and cover art was released on April 1, 2015. With the album's first three singles all reaching number one on the Billboard Country Airplay chart, Ballerini became the first new female artist to send her first three releases to the top of the charts. false 2025-10-06 21:58:39 The First Time 2015 2015-01-01 2015-01-01 40 Contemporary Country Country Country Pop Pop 139844 2251955 503bdb48-18f6-4564-9b4f-ebaaec5a4a5e 779d1126-e48c-43f2-8b51-005f3b116d7e 05a9ba82-742e-49cc-a18b-6a1d4d88daf8 /media/data/media4/Music/Kelsea Ballerini/The First Time/folder.jpg Kelsea Ballerini Kelsea Ballerini 1 1 XO 02:54 1 2 Peter Pan 03:20 1 3 Love Me Like You Mean It 03:19 1 4 Square Pegs 03:22 1 5 The First Time 04:00 1 6 Looking at Stars 03:18 1 7 Sirens 03:26 1 8 Secondhand Smoke 03:43 1 9 Dibs 03:03 1 10 Stilettos 03:26 1 11 Yeah Boy 03:14 1 12 Underage 03:12 Kelsea Nicole Ballerini (born September 12, 1993) is an American country pop singer and songwriter. A four-time Grammy Award nominee, she has gained success since the 2010s, being honored with the Gene Weed Milestone Award at the Academy of Country Music Awards and the Rising Star Award at the Billboard Women in Music. She began songwriting as a child and signed a contract with Black River Entertainment in 2014, releasing her debut studio album, The First Time, and her second one Unapologetically, followed in 2017. The two albums account for seven songs on the Hot Country Songs and Country Airplay charts. She has five 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 2006. It was followed by "Dibs" and "Peter Pan", whose peaks also made her the first female country artist to send her first three singles to the top of that chart since Wynonna Judd. Her third studio album, Kelsea, and a counterpart acoustic album, Ballerini, were both released in 2020. The collaboration "Half of My Hometown" with Kenny Chesney garnered two Country Music Association Awards. Her fourth studio album, Subject to Change was released in 2022.