Carrie Underwood News

Carrie Underwood on track to top U.S. pop chart

Nov 5, 2009 4:00 pm PST

Carrie Underwood is on track to achieve her second No. 1 album on the U.S. pop chart next week, although sales will be sharply lower than for the country star's previous effort. Music industry prognosticators suggest Underwood's "...

Carrie Underwood looks for something different

Nov 2, 2009 11:00 am PST

Pop-country has made superstars out of acts like Rascal Flatts, Taylor Swift and more, but the term is not particularly endearing in Nashville, even to the artists who have come to define it. "I hate saying pop-country — I hate usin...

Music Review: Carrie Underwood shows maturation

Nov 2, 2009 9:00 am PST

Carrie Underwood, "Play On" (19 Recordings/Arista Nashville) Carrie Underwood opens her third album with an audacious stomper, "Cowboy Casanova," a put-down of a playboy that slyly references a famous quarterback Underwood briefly dated. ...

Carrie Underwood to host variety special on Fox

Oct 13, 2009 8:00 am PDT

The Fox network says Carrie Underwood will host a two-hour variety special tentatively titled, "Carrie Underwood: An All-Star Holiday Special," to air Dec. 7. The network says Underwood will perform new music from her u...

Paisley, Underwood return as hosts of CMA Awards

Aug 26, 2009 2:00 am PDT

Brad Paisley and Carrie Underwood will return as co-hosts of the Country Music Association Awards in Nashville this fall. The CMA said Tuesday that both singers possess the humor and timing needed to host the three-hour show, which airs l...