On Thursday, December 3, HBO Max is spreading holiday cheer with the debut of Carrie’s new music special “My Gift: A Christmas Special From Carrie Underwood.” In the Max Original, Carrie performs a combination of beloved traditional favorites celebrating the joy and hopefulness of the holiday, as well as new original material from her first-ever full-length Christmas album My Gift. On the special, she is accompanied by her band, as well as a live orchestra and choir, conducted by Carrie’s longtime friend, Emmy® Award-winning musical director Rickey Minor.
The special features many heartfelt moments and performances, including a duet with John Legend, singing “Hallelujah,” an original song he co-wrote with Toby Gad, which appears on My Gift. Viewers will also get an inside look behind the scenes of Underwood recording “Little Drummer Boy” with her five-year-old son Isaiah.
Get festive and celebrate the holidays with Carrie and Ring. Spread the cheer by using your Ring Video Doorbell to sing or dance to Carrie’s new holiday song “Favorite Time of Year” out now on Amazon Music. Just tag @Ring, @CarrieUnderwood and #DoorbellSeason or send your videos to stories@ring.com.
Starting today, Amazon Music listeners can hear Carrie’s new, original song titled “Favorite Time of Year,” which now appears as a bonus track on the Amazon Edition of her new album, My Gift. To stream Carrie’s new song click here.
To spread holiday cheer even further, Carrie has teamed up with Amazon and its “Delivering Smiles” holiday campaign, to help fulfill the AmazonSmile Charity Lists for Monroe Carell Jr. Children’s Hospital at Vanderbilt. This is part of a larger Delivering Smiles holiday campaign recently announced, with Amazon donating millions of items through product and monetary donations to over one thousand charities worldwide.
In celebration of their flip to around-the-clock holiday music, iHeartMedia New York’s 106.7 LITE FMwill host a “Holiday LITE Show Special” on litefm.com, beginning November 13 at 7 p.m. ET. As part of the special, a holiday light show will sync to a medley of songs from Carrie’s first-ever Christmas album “My Gift” on the station’s website.
Empire State Realty Trust, Inc. and iHeartMedia today announced that the annual Empire State Building (ESB) holiday music-to-light show will feature Carrie’s new song “Hallelujah” with John Legend, from her first-ever Christmas album My Gift.
World-renowned lighting designer Marc Brickman choreographed the festive light show, which premieres on Saturday, December 19 and will be synced live each night at 8:00 p.m. through Friday, December 25 to a broadcast of the song on iHeartRadio’s Z100 and LiteFM. Viewers outside of the New York City area can tune in to watch the show live via Earthcam athttps://www.esbnyc.com/earthcam-empire-state-building. A video of the entire show will also be posted on the Empire State Building’s YouTube channel (www.youtube.com/esbnyc) immediately following its debut on Saturday, December 19.
To celebrate its annual switch to festive music of the Christmas season across its stations nationwide, iHeartMedia today announced the new iHeartRadio Holiday Special, a virtual concert hosted by Mario Lopez. This 30-minute special event will feature Carrie Underwood performing songs from her first-ever Christmas album, My Gift, and will broadcast across iHeartMedia’s AC, HOT AC and Classic Hits stations nationwide and on the iHeartRadio app, and video stream iHeartRadio’s YouTube and Facebook pages on November 25 at 7pm local time. The event will also be available to watch in VR on the Venues app for Oculus Quest.
DICK’S Sporting Goods announced the opening of three pop-up-shop locations for CALIA by Carrie Underwood in Austin, TX, Santa Monica, CA, and a mobile pop-up experience around Nashville, TN. All three retail locations will be open to customers October 28 through December 31 and will provide guests with a unique shopping experience heading into the holiday season.
CMT revealed the winners of the “2020 CMT Music Awards” and Carrietook home the highly coveted “Video of The Year” and “Female Video of the Year” for the second consecutive year. This continues her reign as the most awarded artist in CMT history, now with 22 career wins in the entirely fan-voted awards show.
See Carrie’s personal post-show thank you message to fans here.
Christie’s announced the full star-studded Country Music line-up for the online auction entitled “NASHVILLE: An Auction to Benefit ACM Lifting Lives® COVID-19 Response Fund” open for bidding October 15-29 on christies.com/Nashville. The auction will feature all three ensembles worn by Carrie during the 2020 ACM Awards including the gown worn during the acceptance of the Entertainer of the Year award.
Grand Ole Opry 95thAnniversary Tribute to the Trailblazing Women of Country Medley Dress by Steven Khalil Shoes by Enrico Cuini
Carrie’s first-ever Christmas album, My Gift, debuts #1 on the Billboard Country, Christian and Holiday charts this week. My Gift marks the eighth straight album Carrie has debuted #1 on the Billboard Country chart. My Gift also debuted #1 on the UK country chart (her fifth #1 on the chart) and #1 on the Canadian country chart.
My Gift features a combination of beloved traditional favorites celebrating the spiritual nature of the holiday, as well as several new originals. Two of the original songs are written by Carrie, frequent collaborator Brett James, and her Cry Pretty co-producer, David Garcia. In addition to a very special appearance by Carrie’s 5-year-old son, Isaiah Fisher, on the holiday classic that inspired the album title, “Little Drummer Boy,” My Gift also features her first collaboration with Emmy, GRAMMY®, Oscar, and Tony Award-winner John Legend, on the original track, “Hallelujah,” written by John Legend and Toby Gad (“All of Me”).
GRAMMY® Award-winning producer, mixer, songwriter and multi-instrumentalist, Greg Wells produced and arranged the album. He has written and produced some of the best-selling and highest charting tracks of the past 15 years for such artists as Adele, Celine Dion, Keith Urban, and P!nk, as well as the worldwide smash The Greatest Showman soundtrack. My Giftfeatures a world-class orchestra, led by the pre-eminent arranger, composer, and conductor David Campbell, whose many credits include iconic recordings by artists including Linda Ronstadt, Beyoncé, Justin Timberlake, Barbra Streisand, Michael Jackson, Josh Groban, and his son Beck. My Gift is mixed by 14-time GRAMMY® Award winning mixer, Serban Ghenea.
It was recently announced that Carrie is also set to star in an all-new holiday special, which will be available exclusively on HBO Max. She will appear with a live orchestra and choir, performing a combination of beloved traditional favorites, as well as new original material from My Gift. The Max Original special will be executive produced by Gary Goetzman and Tom Hanks for Playtone, along with Carrie and her manager, Ann Edelblute. The streamer will premiere the event this holiday season.
Purchase new merchandise bundles HEREand listen to the album HERE. My Gift is set to be released on vinyl October 30.
