Month: January 2017

CARRIE UNDERWOOD, JOHN LEGEND, METALLICA,
AND KEITH URBAN TO PERFORM
ON THE 59TH ANNUAL GRAMMY AWARDS®
 
Music’s Biggest Night® — Hosted By James Corden — Airs Live On CBS, Feb. 12, 2017
 

SANTA MONICA, Calif. (Jan. 18, 2017) — The first round of performers for the 59th Annual GRAMMY Awards® telecast has been announced and includes 10-time GRAMMY winner John Legend, eight-time GRAMMY-winning band Metallica, and seven-time GRAMMY winner and current nominee Carrie Underwood with four-time GRAMMY winner and current two-time nominee Keith Urban. Award-winning television personality and performer James Corden is set to host Music’s Biggest Night® for the first time. Taking place at STAPLES Center in Los Angeles, the 59th Annual GRAMMY Awards will be broadcast live in HDTV and 5.1 surround sound on the CBS Television Network, Sunday, Feb. 12, 2017, at 8 p.m. ET/5 p.m. PT. Additional performers will be announced shortly.
 
Metallica’s James Hetfield and Lars Ulrich are nominated for Best Rock Song (“Hardwired”).
 
Underwood is nominated for Best Country Solo Performance (“Church Bells”).
 
Four-time GRAMMY winner Urban is up for Best Country Album (Ripcord) and Best Country Solo Performance (“Blue Ain’t Your Color”).
 
The 59th Annual GRAMMY Awards are produced by AEG Ehrlich Ventures for The Recording Academy. Ken Ehrlich is executive producer, Louis J. Horvitz is director, Ben Winston is a producer, and David Wild and Ehrlich are the writers.

 
CARRIE UNDERWOOD CLEANS HOUSE AS “DIRTY LAUNDRY” BECOMES 25TH #1 SINGLE

Nashville, TN, – (January 16, 2017) – Seven-time GRAMMY® Award winner and reigning CMA Female Vocalist of the Year, Carrie Underwood, claims the 25th #1 single of her career with “Dirty Laundry.” As country radio’s top female performer of 2015 and 2016, Carrie has achieved the fourth consecutive chart-topping single from her Platinum-selling album, Storyteller.  “Dirty Laundry” is the follow up to #1 singles “Smoke Break,” “Heartbeat,” and “Church Bells.” Produced by Jay Joyce and written by Zach Crowell, Ashley Gorley, and Hillary Lindsey, the song tops the Mediabase country airplay chart. See Carrie perform “Dirty Laundry” during a recent appearance on the Grand Ole Opry- https://slnash.co/v673IPc.

Carrie soars into 2017 with multiple award nominations including a Grammy nod for Best Country Solo Performance for her #1 hit “Church Bells,” and a People’s Choice Award nomination for Favorite Female Country Artist. She is also a double nominee at the upcoming iHeartRadio Music Awards for Country Song of the Year, “Church Bells,” and Country Artist of the Year.  Carrie’s 2016 sold-out 360-degree “Storyteller Tour – Stories in the Round” is also nominated in the Most Creative Stage Production category at next month’s Pollstar Awards.

Carrie Underwood to Present at The Golden Globe® Awards
This Sunday, January 8

Nashville- (January 6, 2016) – Carrie Underwood was announced by the Hollywood Foreign Press Association yesterday as a presenter on the 74th Annual Golden Globe Awards set to air this Sunday, January 8 LIVE on NBC, 5-8 p.m. PT / 8-11 p.m. ET from the Beverly Hilton Hotel in Beverly Hills. Hosted by Jimmy Fallon, the Golden Globe Awards are viewed in more than 236 countries worldwide.

Carrie previously attended The Golden Globes in 2011 as a nominee in the “Best Original Song-Motion Picture” category for the song “There’s A Place For Us,” written by Carrie, Hillary Lindsey, and David Hodges, for Chronicles of Narnia: The Voyage of the Dawn Treader. This year she joins an elite list of presenters including Ben Affleck, Casey Affleck, Kristen Bell, Annette Benning, Pierce Brosnan, Naomi Campbell, Jessica Chastain, Leonardo DiCaprio, Gal Gadot, Hugh Grant, John Hamm, Chris Hemsworth, Felicity Jones, John Legend, Ryan Reynolds, Sting, Emma Stone, Vince Vaughn, Carl Weathers, Kristen Wig, and many more.