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Congratulations, Carrie!!
Carrie took home two CMA Awards last night, including:
Female Vocalist of the Year
Single of the Year – “Before He Cheats”
Congratulations, Carrie!!
Good Luck Carrie!!
Don’t forget to watch the 41st CMA AWARDS tonight! The ceremony will air live TONIGHT, Wednesday, November 7, (8:00 – 11:00 PM/ET) from the Sommet Center in Nashville on the ABC Television Network.
Carrie is nominated for three awards at this year’s CMA Awards, including Female Vocalist of the Year, as well as Single and Music Video of the Year, both for “Before He Cheats.” The song also received a nod in the “Song of the Year” category. She will also be performing on this year’s show. Make sure you check it out!
Good Luck Carrie!
WALT DISNEY RECORDS TO RELEASE ENCHANTED ORIGINAL SOUNDTRACK ON NOVEMBER 20!
(November 2, 2007- Burbank, CA) – Walt Disney Records will release the soundtrack for the new part animated, part live-action, movie musical, Enchanted, on November 20, 2007. The recording features songs by Academy Award Winners Alan Menken and Stephen Schwartz with original score by Menken. Amy Adams and James Marsden (Princess Giselle and Prince Edward in the film) perform four tracks on the CD. Recording artists Carrie Underwood and Jon McLaughlin each perform a song.
Multi-platinum recording artist Carrie Underwood performs the final song “Ever Ever After,” produced by Mark Bright. Says Underwood, “It’s actually one of the more difficult songs I’ve sung, but it’s really cute and it’s really fun, and it fits so well with the movie.” The song also gave Underwood the opportunity to team up again with video director Roman White, who has directed 6 of her videos including “Before He Cheats,” “Jesus Take the Wheel,” and current hit “So Small.”
Though Underwood has been responsible for many memorable songs since winning American Idol, she acknowledges that there is something about recording a song for a Disney film that truly makes you timeless. She describes, “It’s really amazing to think that someday kids will know all the words to this song – just like I know the words to a lot of other Disney songs that have become classics.”
Walt Disney Pictures presents Enchanted in theaters on November 21, 2007. The Enchanted Original Soundtrack will be available November 20, 2007.
CMA Awards Preview Special!
LOS ANGELES, October 30, 2007 – Beginning Friday, November 2, Premiere Radio Networks will present its 2007 CMA Awards Preview Special hosted by reigning CMA Female Vocalist of the Year, Carrie Underwood.
The four-hour radio special, which airs in advance of “The 41st Annual CMA Awards,” will feature music and interviews with all of the top stars, including Kenny Chesney, Brad Paisley, George Strait, Keith Urban, Brooks & Dunn, Martina McBride, Rascal Flatts, Miranda Lambert and Sugarland, among others. The special will be broadcast to stations nationwide.
Underwood is nominated for three awards at this year’s CMA Awards, including Female Vocalist of the Year, as well as Single and Music Video of the Year, both for “Before He Cheats.” The song also received a nod in the “Song of the Year” category. Underwood released her second album, Carnival Ride — featuring the Top 5 hit “So Small” on October 23. It’s the follow-up to her debut outing, Some Hearts, which has been certified six-times platinum and has yielded four #1 Country singles, including her breakthrough hit, “Jesus, Take the Wheel.” Underwood performed on the CMA Awards in 2005 – on the day Some Hearts was released – and in 2006 took home two awards in her first year of eligibility. She will perform on this year’s show.
“The 41st Annual CMA Awards” will air live on Wednesday, November 7, (8:00 – 11:00 PM/ET) from the Sommet Center in Nashville on the ABC Television Network.
Carrie Underwood’s Carnival Ride Soars with Record Breaking #1 Album Debut!
First-Week Sales of 527,101 Deliver the Best-Selling Debut Week of Any Female Artist in 2007, Arriving at #1 on Billboard’s Country and Pop Charts!
Carnival Ride Nets the Highest Debut-Week Sales of Any Sophomore Country Album in SoundScan History and Scores a Massive 60% Increase over Week One Sales of Underwood’s 6x-Platinum Blockbuster, Some Hearts
Digital Sales of 44,928 Mark the Largest Country Debut in Digital Album Chart History
Nashville, TN – She’s the reigning CMA and ACM Female Vocalist and two-time GRAMMY winner, and Carrie Underwood continues the record-breaking ways of her Sextuple-Platinum debut album, Some Hearts, with the explosive arrival of Carnival Ride, which vaults to #1 atop Billboard’s Top Country Albums and all-genre Billboard 200 charts with mammoth first-week sales of 527,101.
With an incredible 60% increase over Underwood’s debut-week sales for Some Hearts (which tallied 314,549), Carnival Ride also earned the highest first-week sales for any female artist in any genre this year.
Setting multiple chart records, Carnival Ride not only earned the best-selling first week of any country sophomore album since the inception of SoundScan, but also notched the largest country debut in digital album chart history, with digital sales of 44,928.
As part of the excitement surrounding the album release, Underwood has recently been featured on Good Morning America, Live with Regis and Kelly, The Early Show, The Tonight Show with Jay Leno, the third game of the World Series (singing the National Anthem), and more, with upcoming performances on The Ellen DeGeneres Show (Nov 5), a second Good Morning America (Nov 12), and The Late Show with David Letterman (Nov 13). With additional appearances yet to be announced, Carrie will also perform on The 41st Annual CMA Awards on November 7, where she is a triple nominee, up for Female Vocalist of the Year, as well as Single of the Year and Music Video of the Year (for “Before He Cheats,” which also earned a Song of the Year nomination for its songwriters).
Carnival Ride’s first smash single, “So Small,” is currently inside the country airplay Top 5 and follows a string of four consecutive #1 country singles from her first album. Released in November of 2005, Underwood’s 19 Recordings/Arista Records/Arista Nashville debut, Some Hearts, became the best-selling, single-disc country album by a solo female in the new millennium and, with sales topping 1.3 million copies this year alone, has so far remained the best-selling country album of 2007.
Sub: New Carrie Poll!
Calling all Carrie fans! With the debut of Carrie’s new album, Carnival Ride, being such a huge success we want to know what song you picked as your favorite. “Click here”:http://forums.carrieunderwood.fm/showthread.php?t=11736 to cast your vote today!
Carrie sings the national anthem for Game 3 of the World Series!
NASHVILLE- October 29, 2007- Carrie Underwood performed the National Anthem at Game Three of the 2007 World Series at Coors Field in Denver, Colorado on Saturday evening, October 27. This was Underwood’s second anthem appearance at the request of Major League Baseball having performed the anthem at the All-Star game in the summer of 2006.
PHOTO: Rich Pilling/MLB photos 2007