Month: April 2016

The Storyteller Tour will stop in San Diego on 9/16/16! Join the Official Carrie Underwood Fan Club to get early access to tickets and enter to win a meet and greet with Carrie! Click here for more information on tickets and VIP packages.

 

 

Congratulations Carrie Underwood on receiving two Billboard Music Awards nominations. Carrie is only female nominated for both “Top Country Artist” and “Top Country Album.” The Billboard Music Awards will air live from Las Vegas on May 22.

 

Underwood Receives 2016 Billboard Music Awards Nominations For

Top Country Artist and Top Country Album!

 

 

NASHVILLE, TN, April 11, 2016 – Country superstar Carrie Underwood stacks up the country radio adds this week with “Church Bells,” the third release from her critically-acclaimed Gold-certified album Storyteller. The new single, produced by Mark Bright and written by Zach Crowell, Brett James, and Hillary Lindsey, officially impacts country radio today as the week’s most-added new single at Mediabase and tallies 114 stations on board across the Billboard and Country Aircheck reporting panels.

The prime time television debut of “Church Bells” took place recently when the seven-time GRAMMY® Award winner performed it on the 51^st Academy of Country Music Awards on Sunday, April 3 on CBS Television. Underwood’s new single was preceded by the #1 singles “Smoke Break” and “Heartbeat,” which brings Carrie’s #1 singles total to 23, 13 of which she co-wrote.

 

Announced earlier today, Carrie Underwood received two 2016 Billboard Music Awards nominations for “Top Country Artist” and “Top Country Album” for Storyteller, her fifth studio album. Underwood is the only female in both categories. The awards show, hosted by Ludacris and Ciara, will air live from the T-Mobile Arena in Las Vegas on ABC on May 22.

 

Nashville, TN – (April 11, 2016) – Seven-time Grammy winner Carrie Underwood recently extended her critically acclaimed Storyteller Tour-Stories in the Round tour through this fall including stops in Los Angeles (STAPLES Center), Nashville (Bridgestone Arena), and New York City (Madison Square Garden). It was also just announced that she will close out her year of touring playing arenas with Keith Urban on the Australian leg of his “ripCORD World Tour 2016.”

 

This will be Carrie’s third trip to Australia, having been there before for extensive album promotion in 2011 and again in 2012 when she also took her “Blown Away Tour” to Melbourne, Tamworth, Brisbane, and Sydney — wrapping with 2 sold-out nights at the iconic Sydney Opera House.  

  

<b ripCORD World Tour 2016 Australia Tour Dates:

 

Tuesday, December 6th                       Adelaide – Entertainment Centre

Thursday, December 8th                      Melbourne – Rod Laver Arena

Saturday, December 10th                    Canberra – GIO Stadium

Monday, December 12th                     Sydney – Allphones Arena

Friday, December 16th                        Brisbane – Entertainment Centre

Saturday, December 17th                    Brisbane – Entertainment Centre

 

 

Ticketing information

The Telstra Thanks pre-sale, for Telstra customers starts 2pm Tuesday 12th April. Head to www.telstra.com/music for more details on how to purchase.

Tickets will be available to the general public at www.ticketek.com.au from 2pm, Friday 15th April.

       

The Storyteller Tour remaining dates:

 

Apr-12	Stockton, CA	Stockton Arena
Apr-14	Phoenix, AZ	Talking Stick Resort Arena
Apr-16	Las Cruces, NM	Pan American Center
Apr-18	San Antonio, TX	AT&T Center
Apr-19	Houston, TX	Toyota Center
Apr-22	Bossier City, LA	CenturyLink Center
Apr-24	Lafayette, LA	Cajundome
Apr-27	Tulsa, OK	BOK Center
Apr-28	N. Little Rock, AR	Verizon Arena
Apr-30	Indio, CA	Stagecoach*
May-3	Madison, WI	Kohl Center
May-5	Green Bay, WI	Resch Center
May-7	Grand Forks, ND	Ralph Engelstad Arena
May-10	Casper, WY	Casper Events Center
May-12	Billings, MT	Rimrock Auto Arena at MetraPark
May-15	Kansas City, MO	Sprint Center
May-17	Rosemont, IL	Allstate Arena
May-18	Cleveland, OH	Quicken Loans Arena
May-24	Buffalo, NY	First Niagara Center
May-27	Ottawa, ON	Canadian Tire Centre
May-28	Toronto, ON	Air Canada Centre
May-30	London, ON	Budweiser Gardens
Jun-18	Cadott, WI	Country Fest 2016*
Jul-22	Monticello, IA	Great Jones County Fair*
Jul-29	Sweet Home, OR	Oregon Jamboree*
Jul-30	Duncan, BC	Sunfest*
Jul-31	Camrose, AB	Big Valley Jamboree*
Sept-4	Spokane, WA	Spokane Arena
Sept-6	Boise, ID	Taco Bell Arena
Sept-8	Seattle, WA	KeyArena at Seattle Center
Sept-10	San Jose, CA	SAP Center at San Jose
Sept-13	Bakersfield, CA	Rabobank Arena
Sept-14	Los Angeles, CA	STAPLES Center
Sept-20	Dallas, TX	American Airlines Center
Sept-22	Nashville, TN	Bridgestone Arena
Sept-24	Columbia, SC	Colonial Life Arena
Sept-26	Roanoke, VA	Berglund Center
Sept-28	Providence, RI	Dunkin’ Donuts Center
Sept-29	Manchester, NH	Verizon Wireless Arena
Oct-1	Hershey, PA	Giant Center
Oct-4	Indianapolis, IN	Bankers Life Fieldhouse
Oct-5	Milwaukee, WI	BMO Harris Bradley Center
Oct-7	Des Moines, IA	Wells Fargo Arena
Oct-8	Sioux Falls, SD	Denny Sanford PREMIER Center
Oct-20	Cincinnati, OH	U.S. Bank Arena
Oct-22	Charlottesville, VA	John Paul Jones Arena
Oct-23	Charlotte, NC	Time Warner Cable Arena
Oct-25	New York, NY	Madison Square Garden
Oct-27	Albany, NY	Times Union Center
Oct-28	Uncasville, CT	Mohegan Sun Arena
Nov-6	Hamilton, ON	FirstOntario Centre
Nov-9	Rockford, IL	BMO Harris Bank Center
Nov-11	Evansville, IN	Ford Center
Nov-13	Memphis, TN	FedExForum
Nov-14	Birmingham, AL	Legacy Arena at The BJCC
Nov-16	Tampa, FL	Amalie Arena
Nov-17	Sunrise, FL	BB&T Center
Nov-22	Wichita, KS	INTRUST Bank Arena
Nov-23	Oklahoma City, OK	Chesapeake Energy Arena
Nov-26	Las Vegas, NV	T-Mobile Arena
Nov-28	West Valley City, UT	Maverik Center

*festival date

 

Underwood received nominations for Female Vocalist of the Year and Album of the Year (Storyteller). Carrie has also been added as a performer, joining previously announced performers Florida Georgia Line, Thomas Rhett and more. The AMERICAN COUNTRY COUNTDOWN AWARDS are based on country music’s longest-running radio countdown show, “American Country Countdown with Kix Brooks,” which has recognized the best in country radio for more than 40 years. This year’s host and additional performers and presenters will be announced soon.

 

The 2016 American Country Countdown Awards will air live from the Forum in Los Angeles, CA, Sunday, May 1(8:00-10:00 PM ET live/PT tape-delayed) on FOX. The two-hour event is the first country music awards show to air live from Los Angeles in more than 10 years. Tickets for the AMERICAN COUNTRY COUNTDOWN AWARDS at the Forum are on sale now at www.ticketmaster.com.

 

Nashville, TN – (April 5, 2016) – CMT personality Katie Cook (L) and SVP Music Strategy and Talent Leslie Fram (R) honored 12-time ACM Award winner Carrie Underwood with a plaque celebrating her outstanding number of top-ranking music videos on CMT at the 51^st Annual Academy of Country Music Awards this past weekend. Carrie’s “Heartbeat” video hit number one on the CMT Hot 20 Countdown Saturday, marking it as her 23^rd video at the top spot. 19 Recordings/Arista Nashville’s Underwood has had 21 solo number ones, one with Brad Paisley (Remind Me) and one with Miranda Lambert (Somethin’ Bad). For more information on Carrie’s award and other behind-the-scenes footage from the ACM Awards, tune in to Hot 20 Countdown Saturday, April 9 at 9:00 a.m., ET/PT.

 

Photo credit: Rick Diamond