Bid on exclusive Carrie Underwood items in the 49th GRAMMY® Online Charity Auction benefiting MusiCares and the GRAMMY Foundation. Auction runs now through Feb. 15 (with a special second round running Feb. 12 – 22). Visit www.ebay.com/grammy to check out the auction today!

More details regarding Carrie’s appearances still to be announced…

NASHVILLE – CMA Music Festival, winner of the International Entertainment Buyers Association’s 2006 LIVE! Award for Festival of the Year, is the ultimate destination for music lovers. Four days, 30 hours of autograph signings, 70 hours of live music, 400 Country Music artists and celebrities, and more than 161,000 fans add up to one major musical charity event: 2007 CMA Music Festival, held Thursday through Sunday, June 7-10, in Downtown Nashville.

Dubbed the “crown jewel” of Country Music festivals by USA Today, CMA Music Festival builds on the reputation of Fan Fair®, which was created exclusively for the fans in 1972. And 36 years later, the unique relationship between Country Music artists and their admirers remains at the heart of CMA Music Festival. Each June, the artists take time out of their busy touring schedules to play for free, meet fans, sign autographs, and pose for photos to give back to the people and community that have supported them throughout the year. Proceeds from the Festival are donated on behalf of the artists to CMA’s charity campaign, “Keep the Music Playing,” to support music education in Metro Nashville’s public schools.

The growing lineup of artists participating in CMA Music Festival includes Reba MeEntire; Jason Aldean; Little Big Town; Martina McBride; Sugarland; The Wreckers, in their debut appearance at the Festival; and current CMA Female Vocalist of the Year and Horizon Award winner Carrie Underwood.

“The Country Music industry first welcomed me into their community at the CMA Music Festival in 2005 and since then my peers and my fans have been so gracious,” said Underwood. “I cannot wait to see my fans and meet and create new ones at this year’s event. See you in June!”

CMA Music Festival is always in motion, constantly evolving and growing. New events are on the horizon, with more information to be announced as plans come together.

Tickets for 2007 CMA Music Festival, Thursday through Sunday, June 7-10, in Downtown Nashville are available now.

To order tickets for the 2007 CMA Music Festival call 1-800-CMA-FEST (262-3378); visit www.CMAfest.com to download an order form to fax or mail; visit www.ticketmaster.com to buy online or charge-by-phone at (615) 255-9600.

Vote for Carrie in each of her 3 categories by Clicking Here

VIDEO OF THE YEAR (“Before He Cheats”)
Best video of the year; awarded to the artist (male, female, group/duo or collaboration). Final four nominees announced during live telecast, with final voting held online at CMT.com during the show.

FEMALE VIDEO OF THE YEAR (“Before He Cheats”)
Best video by a female artist; awarded to the artist.

VIDEO DIRECTOR OF THE YEAR (Roman White/Carrie Underwood “Before He Cheats”)
Video with the best direction (video that best captures the mood, tempo, and intensity of the song); awarded to the video director for work on a specific video and accepted by the director and the artist.

NASHVILLE – February 1, 2007 – CMT turns the fate of the 2007 CMT MUSIC AWARDS over to the fans as it announces finalists and opens up voting for country music’s only fan-voted awards show. Beginning Thursday, February 1 on CMT.com, fans can vote for their favorite videos to determine the final nominees for CMT’s sixth annual awards show. Comedian Jeff Foxworthy returns as host for the third consecutive year when the 2007 CMT MUSIC AWARDS premieres live from Nashville’s Curb Event Center at Belmont University on Monday, April 16 at 8:00 p.m., ET.*

The first round of voting runs from February 1 through February 23, only at CMT.com, where fans will select from the top eight nominees in each of the 2007 CMT MUSIC AWARDS categories. On February 28, CMT will announce the four finalists in each of the eight 2007 CMT MUSIC AWARDS categories except VIDEO OF THE YEAR. Fans can then vote online at CMT.com through Friday, April 13 to determine the winners. 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.

Videos that debuted on CMT between February 1, 2006 and January 15, 2007 are eligible for the 2007 CMT MUSIC AWARDS and finalists have been determined by a blue-ribbon panel that includes noted country music journalists, as well as music industry and CMT executives. Log on to CMT.com to view streaming clips of nominated videos.

We are choosing a few of you lucky fans to be the FIRST CarrieUnderwood.fm message board moderators!  We know you love Carrie and want to make sure she has the best message board ever, so if you are a member of The Official Carrie Underwood Fan Club AND are 18 years or older, tell us why you would be best fit to be a moderator for The Official Carrie Underwood Fan Club.

This contest starts at 12:00 AM PST on Wednesday, January 31, 2007 and ends at 12:00 AM PST on Wednesday, February 7, 2007, so be sure to get your entries in ASAP!

Grand prize winners will receive moderator privileges that will help Carrie watch over her message boards for a six month period.

Please login to https://www.carrieunderwood.fm/ and go to Events to submit your entry and view contest details.

Following her attendance at the Grammy nominees’ reception hosted by the Nashville Chapter of the Recording Academy last evening, Sony BMG Nashville presented Carrie Underwood with an RIAA certified Quintuple Platinum plaque commemorating 5 million sales for her debut 19 Recordings/Arista Nashville disc, Some Hearts.

Pictured here are FRONT (left to right): Ann Edelblute, 19 Management; Butch Waugh, Executive VP, Sony BMG Nashville; Iain Pirie, 19 Management; Carole Underwood (Carrie’s mother); Trish Townsend, stylist; Carrie Underwood; Tom Baldrica, VP, Marketing, SBMG Nashville; Joe Galante, Chairman, SBMG Nashville; Renee Bell, Executive VP, A&R SBMG Nashville; Cindy Mabe, Sr. Director, Marketing/Artist Development, Arista Nashville; BACK (left to right): Wade Hunt, VP, Creative, SBMG Nashville; Skip Bishop, VP, National Promotion, Arista Nashville; Melissa Schleicher, hair and make-up artist; Heather McBee, Sr. Director, Digital Business/New Media, SBMG Nashville; Allen Brown, VP, Media, SBMG Nashville.

Photo credit: Tony Phipps

*No. 1 Streamed Live Performance – Carrie Underwood and Jamie O’Neal, “Does He Love You” from CMT Greatest Duets Concert

*No. 1 Streamed Hottest Chick With a Baseball Bat – Carrie Underwood “Before He Cheats”

*No. 1 Streamed Stickin’ It to the Man Video – Carrie Underwood “Before He Cheats”

*No. 1 Digitally Active Female Artist (Loaded, CMT.com, Mobile, Shop) – Carrie Underwood

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Carrie celebrated her recent #1 records with the songwriters on January 17th at an ASCAP Music Row party in Nashville. Carrie and the writers of “Don’t Forget To Remember Me” and “Before He Cheats” were honored with plaques and special gifts by their publishers, Country Weekly, the Country Music Association, ASCAP and more.

Pictured (left to right) Producer Mark Bright, Ashley Gorley, Carrie, Kelley Lovelace, ASCAP Senior VP Connie Bradley, Chris Thompkins, Josh Kear

CMT.com is awarding the most active online artists and videos from 2006 with the Loaded Mouse Award. Carrie is nominated in the following categories:

*No. 1 Streamed Live Performance – Carrie Underwood and Jamie O’Neal, “Does He Love You” from CMT Greatest Duets Concert

*No. 1 Streamed Hottest Chick With a Baseball Bat – Carrie Underwood, “Before He Cheats”

*No. 1 Streamed Stickin’ It to the Man Video – Carrie Underwood, “Before He Cheats”

*No. 1 Streamed Music Video – Carrie Underwood, “Before He Cheats”

*No. 1 Digitally Active Female Artist (Loaded, CMT.com, Mobile, Shop) – Carrie Underwood

CMT Loaded Awards debuts January 23, 2007 on CMT Loaded. Click Here for complete list of nominees.