Carrie Underwood is an American country pop singer and songwriter. She rose to fame as the winner of the fourth season of American Idol, she has since become a multi-platinum selling recording artist, a multiple Grammy Award winner, was inducted into the Grand Ole Opry, and is the reigning Academy of Country Music Awards Entertainer of The Year.
Her debut album, Some Hearts, was certified seven times platinum, is the fastest selling debut country album in Nielsen SoundScan history. And is also the best-selling solo female debut album in country music history. Some Hearts yielded three number one hits on the Billboard Country charts in the United States and Canada: "Jesus, Take the Wheel", "Wasted", and her biggest hit to date, "Before He Cheats", and the #2 hit "Don't Forget To Remember Me", which also hit #1 on the "Radio & Records" country chart.
Her second album, Carnival Ride, was released on October 23, 2007. It has so far sold over 2.9 million copies, and produced four number one country hits on the Billboard Country charts , "So Small", "All-American Girl", "Last Name", and "Just a Dream", and the #2 hit "I Told You So", which also hit #1 on the Mediabase Portion of "Radio & Records" country chart. Underwood has sold over 9.7 million albums in the United States. She has sold 11 million albums worldwide. Carrie is set to release her third album (untitled as of yet) on November 3, 2009. The first single will hit the airwaves sometime this summer, 19 Recordings/Arista Nashville announced.
Underwood joined Brooks & Dunn, Taylor Swift, Sugarland, and Rascal Flatts in an opening duet to the 44th Annual Academy of Country Music Awards on April 5, 2009. She performed a snippet of "All-American Girl". Later on in the show she took home her third consecutive "Female Vocalist of the Year" award, and made history by becoming only the seventh female to win the prestigious "Entertainer of the Year" Award.
On April 14, she appeared on The Oprah Winfrey Show along with other Country stars namely Sugarland, Kenny Chesney and Darius Rucker for the Oprah Country Special. There, she performed her hit single Just a Dream. Underwood was nominated for Video of the Year at the 2009 CMT Awards for Just a Dream.
Also in 2009, Forbes reported that Underwood is the top earning American Idol alumni from June 2008-May 17, 2009. She earned more than twice as much as the second place finisher with an estimated earnings of $14 million during this time period.
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