NASHVILLE – (Feb. 23, 2007) Two-time Grammy winner, reigning CMA Female Vocalist of The Year and American Idol Season 4 winner Carrie Underwood will return to the American Idol stage Thursday, March 8 to perform her current Top 10 hit “Wasted.”

Since winning Idol in May 2005, Underwood’s debut album SOME HEARTS has sold over 5 million copies and contains four #1 singles. She has taken home 2 Country Music Association Awards, 2 Academy of Country Music Awards, 2 CMT Awards, 2 People’s Choice Awards and 8 Billboard Awards. She also claimed a most coveted trophy in 2006 by receiving her college degree after graduating Magna Cum Laude with high honors in mass communications with an emphasis in journalism from Northeastern State University.

Underwood will spend time in the recording studio this Spring and Summer creating her sophomore album, due out later this year.

Hey fellow Carrie fans! Because the first poll was such a success, thanks to the 1171 of you that voted, we have created a brand new poll question for you all to partake in. You’ll find the brand new question located right here on the HOME section. So show your Carrie pride and cast your vote today!

The results are in! After much consideration we have chosen these very deserving candidates to be the first moderators for Carrie’s Official Fan Club message board. Congratulations to the following members…

Aussiefan21
Carriefan141
Kakarot
Musicritic
TrinityFaith
Vinman
WithLoveMandie

Look for these members as moderators on the message boards soon! They will be helping Carrie watch over the message boards for a six month period! We were excited to have received so many entries, and thank you all as this was such a difficult decision. If you weren’t chosen this time, don’t worry, you will have another opportunity to be a part of our second group of moderators six months from now!

NASHVILLE – February 20, 2007 – CMT announces its first round of performers scheduled to take the stage at the 2007 CMT MUSIC AWARDS. The star-studded line-up includes chart-toppers Kenny Chesney, Tim McGraw, Carrie Underwood, Martina McBride, Sugarland and Dierks Bentley, with others soon to be announced. Jeff Foxworthy returns as host for the third consecutive year when the 2007 CMT MUSIC AWARDS airs live on Monday, April 16 at 8 p.m. EST

CMT’s sixth annual awards show honors country music’s elite for the year’s most outstanding music videos and is the genre’s only fan-voted awards.

Fan voting is underway at CMT.com to determine the Awards Show finalists through Friday, February 23. CMT will announce the four finalists in each category except VIDEO OF THE YEAR on February 28. The final nominees for VIDEO OF THE YEAR will be announced at the beginning of the show, and fans can vote at CMT.com as well as via mobile phone throughout the live broadcast (ET/CT only) to determine the night’s big winner.

Please note that we will be doing some site maintenance tonight from 12am-2am (PST). Please accept our apologies for any inconvenience this may cause you. We’ll get the site back up and running as soon as possible. Thanks in advance for your understanding.

Tune in to watch Carrie perform on the GRAMMY’s at 8 pm EST on CBS. Carrie is nominated for Best New Artist and Best Female Country Vocal Performance for “Jesus, Take the Wheel,” plus “Jesus, Take the Wheel” is also nominated for Song of the Year and Country Song of the Year. GOOD LUCK CARRIE!!!

Congratulations to Carrie for winning Grammys in both her nominated categories, “Best New Artist” and “Best Female Country Vocal Performance!!” The song writers for “Jesus, Take The Wheel” also won the award for “Best Country Song”. Stay tuned to the Official Carrie Underwood Fan Club for exclusive photos of Carrie from the 49th annual Grammy awards.

Check out Carrie’s new video for “Wasted” on CMT.com. Also look out for it soon on GAC, CMT, AOL.com and Yahoo.com!