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Get Blown Away By Carrie’s 2012!

Jennifer Swirsky — Wed, 16 Jan 2013 01:22:38 +0000

When we caught wind of just how incredible Carrie Underwood‘s 2012 was, we were simply blown away. Not only were we amazed by the laundry list of successful moments Carrie experienced, but we were exhausted just thinking about everything Carrie accomplished in only 366 days (Leap Year, y’all … are we observant, or what?)! The following is what Carrie’s year consisted of:

Carrie played to more than a half-million fans throughout her 62-show 2012 “Blown Away Tour.” She not only ranked as the top female country touring artist of the year according to Pollstar’s Year-End chart, she also played her first concerts in Australia and the U.K, where her concert at London’s Royal Albert Hall sold out in only 90 minutes.

Carrie’s acclaimed fourth album, Blown Away, was released in May and quickly became a fan-favorite, debuting at Number 1 on the Billboard Country and All-Genre Sales Charts. Blown Away remained at the top of Billboard’s Top Country Albums chart for an astounding seven weeks. Nielsen SoundScan tallies show Blown Away among the year’s best-sellers, ranking as the Number 2 Country album and Number 7 album in All Genres. Now certified Platinum, Blown Away has already launched back-to-back Platinum-certified Digital Singles with the chart-topping tracks “Blown Away” and “Good Girl.”

Carrie’s singles for “Good Girl” and “Blown Away” collectively spent a total of three weeks at Number 1 on the Billboard and Country Aircheck Country airplay charts. This is more than any other female country artist in 2012.

Carrie’s success continued on the video front, as well, with “Good Girl” logging a record-setting fourteen weeks at Number 1 on CMT’s Top 20 Countdown and becoming the show’s Number 1 video of the year. Similarly, Carrie’s cinematic video for “Blown Away” also became an immediate favorite, achieving an unprecedented cumulative fourteen weeks at Number 1 during its fifteen-week run on GAC’s fan-voted Top 20 Country Countdown.

As if this isn’t enough success, add in a GRAMMY nomination (for the record, Carrie already has five GRAMMY awards in her repertoire) for Best Country Solo Performance for “Blown Away” (which also earned a Best Country Song nomination for writers Josh Kear and Chris Tompkins). In 2012, Carrie also walked away with her seventh American Music Award in the category of Favorite Country Album. This win by Carrie made her the first artist in AMA history to capture the Country Album category on every album released. At the American Country Awards, she extended her reign as the most-awarded artist in the show’s three-year history, now with eleven ACA wins, with a pair of 2012 honors including Artist of the Year: Female.

At the CMT Music Awards, “Good Girl” was named Video of the Year, while Carrie shared honors for Collaborative Video of the Year for “Remind Me” with Brad Paisley. At year-end, Carrie was also named among CMT’s Artists of the Year.

Additionally, Carrie was all over the TV airwaves in 2012 and was featured in such original programming as CMT Crossroads: Steven Tyler & Carrie Underwood, Behind the Music: Carrie Underwood, and VH1 Presents: Carrie Underwood Unplugged, as well as the ACM Awards, American Idol, the Billboard Music Awards, CMA Music Festival: Country’s Night to Rock, the CMT Music Awards, Dancing with the Stars, the Dateline 20th Anniversary Special, The Ellen DeGeneres Show, Good Morning America, the GRAMMY Awards, Jimmy Kimmel Live!, Late Night with Jimmy Fallon, Late Show with David Letterman, and Nightline, as well as Oprah’s Next Chapter: Carrie Underwood, Today’s Summer Concert Series, Teachers Rock, and more, including returning for the fifth consecutive year as co-host of the CMA Awards.

*CATCHES BREATH*

In addition to her television appearances, Carrie also graced numerous magazine covers in 2012, some of which included Billboard, Glamour, and SELF.

Blown Away made history this spring by debuting at Number 1 on Billboard’s Top Country Albums Chart, making Carrie only the second country artist in the forty-seven-year history of the chart to have each of their first four albums debut at Number 1. Blown Away also debuted at Number 1 on the All-Genre Billboard 200 Chart, making Carrie only the second country artist in history to have three consecutive albums debut at Number 1.

Makes you feel slightly lazy and unaccomplished, now doesn’t it? Congratulations on a huge year, Carrie! What do you hope to see/hear from Carrie Underwood in 2013?!

Jenny & Ashley Release “Good Girl” Cover Video

Jessica Crans — Wed, 30 May 2012 19:50:37 +0000

If you read our interview with Jenny & Ashley from a few weeks ago, you will remember us asking the girls when we would see their cover video for Carrie Underwood‘s hit “Good Girl.” Well, the wait is over and the video is here! The cover song is an original arrangement of Carrie’s song and in the video, Jenny portrays the “good girl” while younger sister, Ashley portrays the “bad girl.”

“Good Girl” is the lead single off of Carrie Underwood’s latest record Blown Away. The song has landed at #5 on Billboard’s country chart and #25 on the Hot 100 chart.

What do you think of the video and the arrangement? We love it! Be sure to let us know below and don’t forget to check out our recent interview with the girls if you haven’t already, here!

VIDEO: Carrie Underwood Performs on Dancing With the Stars

Nicole Piering — Thu, 17 May 2012 18:55:37 +0000

While most celebrities on “Dancing with the Stars” wear their dancing shoes, reigning country queen Carrie Underwood put on her ‘goodbye shoes’ Monday night for a performance on the hit ABC show. Looking as stunning as ever, Carrie performed her smash hit “Good Girl,” joined by her rocking band and 4 dancers.

It’s been all perfect-10′s for Carrie lately who scored a second week atop the Billboard Album Chart this week with her album “Blown Away“!

Missed Carrie’s performance? Check it out right here!

VIDEO: Carrie Underwood Premieres “Good Girl” Music Video

Jessica Crans — Tue, 13 Mar 2012 00:25:23 +0000

Carrie Underwood’s “Good Girl” has been taking over the Billboard charts and now it’s time to take over Vevo! The video just premiered tonight on Entertainment Tonight, ETOnline.com, and Vevo. The music video will be released to all platforms on Wednesday.

“Good Girl” was filmed in Los Angeles by director Theresa Wingert. Theresa has filmed for Carrie before, also having done “Cowboy Casanova”.

Check out the video below and let us know what you think of Carrie’s “Good Girl” side!

UPDATE: Carrie Underwood’s “Good Girl” Cracks Top 40

Ted Efron — Sun, 26 Feb 2012 16:17:19 +0000

Carrie Underwood’s “Good Girl” is getting great reception from radio.

The single was released to radio just a few days ago (Feb. 23) and it’s already cracked the Top 40. It debuted in today’s Mediabase chart, first appearing at #40 and then officially moving up to #37. Clearly, with “Good Girl,” Carrie’s got a climber!

“Good Girl” is the lead single off of Carrie’s upcoming album, which will be released on May 1. The song is co-written by Carrie along with Chris DeStefano and Ashley Gorley. It’s produced by Mark Bright, who produced her two previous albums as well as seven tracks from her debut album Some Hearts. Read our review of the single here. (Spoiler alert: We like it!)

The single is currently available exclusively on iTunes. It will be available through Amazon.com on Tuesday Feb. 28.

Since her recording debut in 2005, the American Idol winner has sold more than 14 million albums with Some Hearts, 2007’s Carnival Ride, and 2009’s Play On. She’s a five-time GRAMMY Award winner, a two-time Academy of Country Music Entertainer of the Year, a three-time Country Music Association and ACM Female Vocalist winner, and a proud member of the Grand Ole Opry.

If that’s not enough, she’s joined Twitter! Carrie can officially be found at @carrieunderwood. There have been plenty of fakes out there, but this one is finally the real deal!

(UPDATE 2/27: “Good Girl” leaps to #32 this morning! Chart positions are not official until the end of the week, so it will be interesting to see how high it climbs.)

(UPDATE 2/28: “Good Girl” at #28 in this morning’s report.)

(UPDATE 2/29: “Good Girl” at #24!)

Welcome To Twitter, Carrie Underwood!

Jessica Crans — Fri, 24 Feb 2012 21:31:59 +0000

Carrie Underwood has finally joined the Twitter world! It’s about time, right? That’s what we were thinking. Carrie made her Twitter debut about 4 hours ago, with the tweet “Hello Twitter World!” She then tweeted again a few hours ago:

@CarrieUnderwood: “Excited to have another way to connect with my fans from my team and me…can’t wait to hear from you!”

Watch out, Carrie! It’s addicting!

Carrie Underwood’s new single, “Good Girl” premiered late last night. Check out our review of the song HERE!

You can follow Carrie on twitter here and don’t forget to send her a nice welcome tweet!

REVIEW: Carrie Underwood’s “Good Girl”

Ted Efron — Fri, 24 Feb 2012 08:51:36 +0000

When it comes to Carrie Underwood songs, you could classify them into two categories: “Lace Carrie” who sings sweet songs like “Don’t Forget To Remember Me,” “Temporary Home” and “Mama’s Song.” Then there’s “Leather Carrie” who is more rockin’ with songs like “Before He Cheats,” “Cowboy Casanova” and “Undo It.”

With “Good Girl” Carrie breaks out the leather — with studs.

The song leaves little doubt where it’s going to take us from the very beginning with its rock guitar licks, head-nodding drum beat and contagious hand-clapping. Then Carrie kicks in. Or maybe better stated: she kicks it in! Her delivery is smart, strong and sometimes even snarling. There aren’t any of those long, powerful vocal moments that will bring everybody out of their seats when she sings it live in concert. That’s okay as the song will already have people on their feet. Besides, Carrie doesn’t need any of those “Mariah Carey” moments to prove her vocal power. Her voice is in a class all by itself. She’s so good, it would be easy to take her for granted. It would be a sad day if that ever were to happen.

The song tells a cautionary tale to the “Good Girl” who is doesn’t realize she’s with a bad guy.

His lips are drippin’ honey, but he’ll sting you like a bee/So lock up all your lovin’, go and throw away the key/Hey, good girl/Get out while you can/I know you think you’ve got a good man.

She delivers the truth with a clever double-use of the words “good girl”:

Why you gotta be so blind?/Won’t you open up your eyes?/It’s just a matter of time ’til you find/He’s no good, girl.

Carrie co-wrote the song along with Chris DeStefano and Ashley Gorley. If history is any indicator, the collaboration with Gorley means great things for “Good Girl.” Gorley co-wrote two previous songs for Carrie: “All-American Girl” and “Don’t Forget To Remember Me.” Those songs charted on Billboard at #1 and #2, respectively. “Good Girl” is produced by Mark Bright, who produced her two previous albums as well as seven tracks from her debut album Some Hearts.

“Good Girl” is on Country radio right now. Carrie’s still untitled fourth album is due out May 1st.

Rating: 4.5 out of 5

VIDEO: Carrie Underwood Gives A Sneak Peek At Her “Good Girl”

Ted Efron — Tue, 21 Feb 2012 23:15:39 +0000

It would appear Carrie Underwood is just as excited as her fans are for the release of her new single, “Good Girl.” So much so, that she’s even leaking a little bit of the song herself.

The highly anticipated single isn’t due to hit radio for another two days (Feb. 23). But that didn’t stop Carrie from giving us an advance taste of the tune. As the singer jokingly says, “What are they gonna do to me?”

She posted this video that she shot during the final days of her working on her new album. As she takes us into the control room, we can hear part of the song, which, as you will hear, is really rockin’!

Carrie’s new album, produced by Mark Bright, will be released on May 1st. The album still doesn’t have a name. But it’s a safe bet that we will be calling it her fourth straight album to debut at #1.