Month: June 2015

Carrie Underwood Earns the 21st #1 Single of Her Career with “Little Toy Guns”!

 

Co-Written Single Becomes the Second New Smash from Underwood’s Greatest Hits: Decade #1

 

Nashville, TN – Seven-time GRAMMY® winner Carrie Underwood ad ds even more heft to her aptly named Greatest Hits: Decade #1 as the collection’s second single, “Little Toy Guns,” tops the Mediabase country airplay chart this week to become the 21st #1 single of her career.

 

Earlier this year, the first new single from Greatest Hits: Decade #1, the Platinum-certified GRAMMY winner “Something in the Water,” notched a seven-week run at #1 on Billboard’s airplay/sales/streaming-based Hot Country Songs chart and achieved a record-setting 26 weeks atop Billboard’s Hot Christian Songs chart, the longest such tenure for a female artist.

 

Both “Something in the Water” and “Little Toy Guns” were co-written by Underwood, marking her 10th and 11th chart-toppers as a writer.

 

The music video for “Little Toy Guns” is currently climbing the Top 5 of CMT’s Hot 20 Countdown after previously logging three weeks atop GAC’s fan-voted Top 20 Country Countdown.

 

Featuring 20 of Underwood’s #1 hits, as well as four favorites in never-before-released versions, Greatest Hits: Decade #1 is available for sale here.

 

Underwood is currently working on music for her upcoming fifth studio album.

 

 

Please see below message from Thunder on the Mountatin:

 

It is with great regret that due to circumstances beyond our control, we are unable to hold Thunder on the Mountain which was due to take place June 26 – 28 near Ozark, AR. A separate statement regarding ticket refunds will be made direct to ticket holders.

Country music’s wildest party of the year turned it up a notch as hosts Erin Andrews and Brittany Snow led a star-studded event at the 2015 “CMT Music Awards” live from Nashville’s Bridgestone Arena. Carrie Underwood owned the night winning three coveted buckle awards, setting a new record with four consecutive wins in a row (her sixth total) for Video of the Year for “Something in the Water.” She also scored two additional awards for Female Video of the Year for “Something in the Water,” and collaborative video of the year with Miranda Lambert for “Somethin’ Bad.” With a grand total of 13 awards, Underwood now holds more awards than any other artist in the show’s history. Prior to winning Video of the Year, she delivered a flawless performance of her smash hit, “Little Toy Guns,” for the first time on television.

 

Hosts Erin Andrews and Brittany Snow kept the crowd laughing all night long. They opened with Erin showcasing an illuminating flip-book of photos proving once and for all she’s Carrie Underwood’s BFF, while Brittany was joined by the Beltones from Belmont University for a timely a cappella salute to women in country music. Later in the night, CMT premiered an original digital short proving that half the fun is actually getting to the show. Erin and Brittany hitched a ride via a new car service, Guuber, with Arnold Schwarzenegger as the driver. Along the way, they picked up a homeless Tom Arnold. Elsewhere other Guuber driver Steven Tyler serenaded Alan Jackson, and “The Late Late Show’s” James Corden jammed with passenger Justin Bieber to Luke Bryan’s “Country Girl (Shake It for Me)”. Kristen Bell, Hunter Hayes, Big & Rich and Rick Springfield also made special appearances.

 

The evening’s winners are as follows:

VIDEO OF THE YEAR- Carrie Underwood, “Something in the Water”

MALE VIDEO OF THE YEAR- Luke Bryan, “Play It Again”

FEMALE VIDEO OF THE YEAR- Carrie Underwood, “Something in the Water”

GROUP VIDEO OF THE YEAR- Lady Antebellum, “Bartender”

BREAKTHROUGH VIDEO OF THE YEAR- Sam Hunt, “Leave The Night On”

DUO VIDEO OF THE YEAR- Florida Georgia Line, “Dirt”

COLLABORATIVE VIDEO OF THE YEAR- Miranda Lambert and Carrie Underwood, “Somethin’ Bad”

CMT PERFORMANCE OF THE YEAR- Bob Seger and Jason Aldean, “Turn The Page”