Month: February 2015

Carrie Underwood’s “Little Toy Guns” Aims High as #1 Most Added
Song of the Week at Country Radio

 

“Little Toy Guns” is Second Single from Greatest Hits: Decade #1

 

 

Carrie Underwood’s “Little Toy Guns,” the second single off her Greatest Hits: Decade #1, hit the airwaves as the #1 Most Added Song at Country Radio this week.  Upon its official impact date today, “Little Toy Guns” has accumulated 78 Mediabase station adds and 82 combined BDS and Mediabase adds.

 

“Little Toy Guns,” penned by Carrie, Chris DeStefano, and Hillary Lindsey, is the follow up to Carrie’s GRAMMY®-winning, Platinum-selling smash “Something in the Water,” which reigned at #1 for seven weeks on Billboard’s airplay/sales/streaming-based Hot Country Songs chart as well as Billboard’s Hot Christian Songs chart for 18 weeks.

 

The video for “Little Toy Guns” debuted in early February on Facebook, drawing more than 7.5 million views so far.  The clip was directed by PR Brown and produced by Steve Lamar for Lamar Bros TV.  Watch it here.

 

Underwood’s Greatest Hits: Decade #1 is available for sale here.

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Carrie Underwood Wins GRAMMY® for Best Country Solo Performance
for “Something in the Water” 

Win Becomes Carrie’s 7th GRAMMY® Award

Superstar Carrie Underwood won her 7th GRAMMY®  Award last night at the 57th annual show, winning for Best Country Solo Performance for “Something in the Water.”  Underwood, who is expecting her first child, was not able to attend the show in Los Angeles but watched from her home in Nashville.

 

“I’m seriously so happy ‘Something in the Water’ won a GRAMMY!  This song means so much to me …I feel so honored and blessed!” Carrie tweeted last night.

 

"Something in the Water," written by Carrie, Chris DeStafano, and Brett James, was the debut single off her Greatest Hits: Decade #1 which topped Billboard’s Airplay/sales/streaming-based Hot Country Songs Chart for seven weeks as well as Billboard’s Hot Christian Songs chart for 18 weeks.  The song’s success surpasses her previous personal best set in 2006 with "Jesus, Take the Wheel."  The Platinum-certified song was also ranked #1 on Rolling Stone’s year-end social media readers’ poll of the "10 Best Country Songs of 2014."

 

Carrie Underwood’s “Little Toy Guns” Arrives with a Bang!

 

Friday’s Facebook Exclusive World Premiere Has Now Drawn More Than 5 Million Views;
PEOPLE.com Has Exclusively Debuted a Behind-the-Scenes Video Clip, Online Now 

 

Underwood Kicks Off Super Bowl Sunday and Is Featured in a Star-Studded Musical Clip in a Sunday Edition of NBC’s Tonight Show

Six-time GRAMMY® Award winner and current GRAMMY double-nominee Carrie Underwood world premiered the music video for her new single, “Little Toy Guns,” exclusively on her Facebook page, Facebook.com/CarrieUnderwood, on Friday morning, with fans rushing en masse to see the new clip, which has now garnered more than 5 million views to date.

 

The music video is currently available for purchase HERE.

 

New today, fans can look for a special behind-the-scenes video clip, which premiered exclusively on PEOPLE.com HERE.

 

Directed by PR Brown and produced by Steve Lamar for Lamar Bros TV, the “Little Toy Guns” music video reunites Underwood with child actress Grace Rundhaug, who played Marta when Underwood starred in NBC’s 2013 ratings blockbuster, The Sound of Music LIVE!

 

“It’s been really nice to be with Grace again,” Underwood shared.  “She’s such a talented little actress and such a sweetie.  When I was trying to think of who I wanted to see in this video, I just saw her face.”

 

Underwood continued, “The whole concept of the song is basically how this little girl hears her parents fighting, and it really affects her.”  Underwood credits director PR Brown with the video’s imaginative premise of an “incredible storybook theme where the little girl becomes the hero.”

 

See the “Little Toy Guns” music video HERE.

 

Written by Underwood, Chris DeStefano, and Hillary Lindsey, “Little Toy Guns” was digitally delivered to country radio as a single on Friday for an official airplay impact date of February 17.

 

Also this weekend, Underwood could be seen bookending Super Bowl XLIX, as she starred in the special “Waiting All Day for a Super Bowl Fight” opening theme for the game’s broadcast.  The performance was an extension of Underwood’s role for the past two NFL seasons as the voice of Sunday Night Football’s opening theme, “Waiting All Day for Sunday Night.”

 

Underwood was also featured in a pre-taped clip in a post-game Sunday edition of NBC’s Tonight Show Starring Jimmy Fallon, as she joined Fallon, The Roots, and such other stars as One Direction, Ariana Grande, Usher, Sam Smith, Christina Aguilera, Blake Shelton, and more for an a cappella rendition of Queen’s classic, “We Are the Champions.”  You can see the clip HERE.

 

“Little Toy Guns” is from Underwood’s chart-topping new album, Greatest Hits: Decade #1.  Released December 9, the already-RIAA-Gold-certified collection includes 18 of her previous #1 hits, together with four songs in never-before-released versions, as well as the Billboard Hot Country Songs 7-week #1 smash, “Something in the Water.”

 

Underwood’s Greatest Hits: Decade #1 is available for sale HERE.