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Country superstar Carrie Underwood was surprised last Friday evening (2/5) with a 20 Million Albums Sold plaque following her Louisville appearance on her Storyteller Tour – Stories in The Round.  The plaque commemorates the sales sum of Carrie’s Some Hearts, Carnival Ride, Play On, Blown Away, Greatest Hits: Decade #1, and Storyteller albums.

 

Pictured here (left to right), backstage at KFC Yum! Center are: Sony Music Nashville Marketing Director Rachel Fontenot, Sales VP Caryl Healey, Promotion & Artist Development EVP Steve Hodges, and Chairman & CEO Randy Goodman; Underwood; Sony Music Nashville EVP/COO Ken Robold; Ann Edelblute, Carrie Underwood’s manager (The HQ); and Sony Music Nashville Marketing Sr. VP Paul Barnabee, Marketing & Media Mgr Bob Foglia, and Digital Strategy VP Sarah Westbrook. (Photo credit: Jeff Johnson)

 

Invited media, special guests, and label executives gather with Carrie Underwood. (Photo credit: Jeff Johnson)

 

Carrie Underwood Stages Biggest Tour of Career with
“The Storyteller Tour – Stories in the Round”

 

Launches with Back to Back Sold Out Shows

 

 

Nashville, TN – (February 3, 2016) – Carrie Underwood’s “Storyteller Tour – Stories in the Round” launched on Saturday in Jacksonville, FL, and continued Monday in Atlanta, GA, both to sold-out 360-degree crowds. The tour’s 17 semi-trucks and 8 buses rolled into Greensboro, NC for the third show tonight to continue its highly-successful 2016 run. Already fans and critics are raving about her stand-out performances coupled with the dramatic in-the-round stage production.

 

The show “is a no-expense-spared spectacle that highlights her approachable beauty, her roar of a voice and a substantive set of songs that have commanded the charts since her ‘American Idol’ victory a long decade ago,” expressed the Atlanta Journal Constitution. “The in-the-round setup commissioned by Underwood allows for unparalleled vantage points – and even those in the arena’s highest peaks could watch one of four oval video screens situated above each side of the stage.”  And says the Florida Times-Union, “Lasers and swaying spotlights and fireworks and explosions all added to the spectacle. But make no mistake, Underwood was the star of the show.”

 

Underwood, known for her vocal prowess and the ability to create stellar performance moments in any realm, concert, television, or recordings, spent much of 2015 working with her team to create her most spectacular concert tour to date. Barry Lather (Rihanna, Mariah Carey, Usher, Michael Jackson) is the tour’s Creative Director and Butch Allen (Metallica, The Eagles, Eric Church, No Doubt) is Production & Lighting Designer. “The Storyteller Tour” required many weeks of technical planning and rehearsing to program lighting cues, automation, and special effects, followed by numerous full-on performance rehearsals with Underwood and her band.

 

“The Storyteller Tour” features a staple in any Underwood production, wardrobe changes. She worked with Emmy-winning costume designer Marina Toybina to create varying costume options for each of the five acts so fans will see a variety of outfits every night during her 100+ minute set. Marina also designed the wardrobe for Underwood’s 2012/2013 “Blown Away Tour.”

 

The massive stage has seven elevator lifts and spans over 150 feet across the arena floor, with a main center stage expanse of 48 feet in diameter that rotates 360-degrees. The center lift can raise to 18 feet high. There are four satellite stages and three concentric LED rings that hover in the air and move throughout the show for visual moments and effects, plus four larger oval screens that provide video for fans on all sides of the arena. A very unique spotlight technology, the Black Track system, follows Carrie where ever she travels across the massive stage with aide by special beacons that have been built into her wardrobe.

 

Underwood will take a short break from the tour following this weekend to perform on the 58th Annual GRAMMY Awards®, where the seven-time GRAMMY winner is nominated this year for “Little Toy Guns” in the Best Country Solo Performance category. The GRAMMY Awards® will broadcast live on the CBS Television Network, Monday, Feb. 15, 2016, at 8 p.m. ET/5 p.m. PT.

 

The Storyteller Tour:

Feb-3	Greensboro, NC	Greensboro Coliseum
Feb-5	Louisville, KY	KFC Yum! Center
Feb-17	Pittsburgh, PA	CONSOL Energy Center
Feb-20	Hampton, VA	Hampton Coliseum
Feb-22	Philadelphia, PA	Wells Fargo Center
Feb-23	Boston, MA	TD Garden
Feb-25	Washington, DC	Verizon Center
Mar-4	Stockholm, Sweden	C2C/Hovet*
Mar-5	Oslo, Norway	C2C/Spektrum*
Mar-11	Glasgow, Scotland	C2C/ Clyde Auditorium*
Mar-12	London, England	C2C/ O2 Arena*
Mar-13	Dublin, Ireland	C2C/ 3 Arena*
Mar-17	Youngstown, OH	Covelli Centre
Mar-19	Allentown, PA	PPL Center
Mar-22	Auburn Hills, MI	The Palace of Auburn Hills
Mar-24	St. Louis, MO	Chaifetz Arena
Mar-26	Lincoln, NE	Pinnacle Bank Arena
Mar-29	Colorado Springs, CO	Broadmoor World Arena
Mar-30	Denver, CO	Pepsi Center
Apr-1	Las Vegas, NV	ACM Party for a Cause Festival*
Apr-5	Fresno, CA	Save Mart Center
Apr-8	Reno, NV	Reno Events Center
Apr-10	Oakland, CA	Oracle Arena
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

*festival date

 

“Storyteller Tour- Stories in the Round,” in association with ALMAY, and Carnival in support of Operation Homefront, is promoted by AEG in North America and includes special guests Easton Corbin and The Swon Brothers.

Carrie Underwood Launches Tour with
Sold-out 360-Degrees to Crowd of 14,000

 

“The Storyteller Tour – Stories in the Round”

 

 

NASHVILLE, TN – Nashville, TN – (February 1, 2016) – 2016 Grammy nominee Carrie Underwood launched The Storyteller Tour – Stories in the Round over the weekend in Jacksonville, Florida with a sold-out 360-degrees crowd of nearly 14,000 at the Jacksonville Veterans Memorial Arena. This is Underwood’s first tour “in the round.” With the stage in the middle of the arena floor, the 360-degree setting “had the effect of providing front-row seats for hundreds of fans. Lasers and swaying spotlights and fireworks and explosions all added to the spectacle. But make no mistake, Underwood was the star of the show,” said the Florida Times-Union.

 

Underwood’s second single “Heartbeat” from her #1 selling Storyteller album, being performed in the tour photo, has reached the Top 10 on Billboard’s Country Airplay chart today. The song was co-written by Underwood, Ashley Gorley and Zach Crowell and was produced by Crowell.

 

Be a part of a special moment EXCLUSIVE only to those who have downloaded the free Official Carrie Underwood App! The app is designed to release a special feature only on the night of the show which will allow you to help illuminate Carrie’s performance of “Heartbeat”. Don’t miss out on being a part of the show and download the free app now!

Step 1: Click here or search “Carrie Underwood” in the App Store or on Google Play

 

Step 2: Create an account and click “ALLOW” when asked about location services

Step 3: When Carrie and the band start playing “Heartbeat,” click the heart icon located in the top LEFT corner of the app, then hold up your phone to be a part of the show!

*NOTE the heart icon will ONLY appear on the day of the show and ONLY if you allow the app to access your location

Carrie Underwood Continues Momentum Into 2016

“The Storyteller Tour – Stories in the Round” to Launch This Weekend

Carrie to Perform on 58th Annual GRAMMY Awards®

 

 

NASHVILLE, TN – Nashville, TN – (January 28, 2016) – 2016 Grammy nominee and Pollstar’s three-time top female country touring artist, Carrie Underwood, will launch a new arena tour this Saturday, January 30th, with a sold-out show in Jacksonville, Florida at the Jacksonville Veterans Memorial Arena. The Storyteller Tour – Stories in the Round, in association with award-winning cosmetics brand ALMAY, will take new music from her Gold-certified Storyteller album on the road, playing 40 arenas across the U.S. and Canada as well as five international shows in March during Europe’s biggest country music festival, Country to Country (C2C).

 

On The Storyteller Tour Underwood will meet soldiers and their families in a new initiative with Carnival Cruise Line and Operation Homefront, a national non-profit that builds strong, stable, and secure military families. The year-longHonor. Family. Fun. program will help raise funds for Operation Homefront. Videos highlighting the meet & greets and the families’ individual stories will be featured on carnival.com/HonorFamilyFun.

 

After the tour’s first week, Underwood will continue her momentum from an impressive 2015, which closed with a live performance in Times Square on New Year’s Eve garnering 28 million viewers.  She will perform a collaboration with Sam Hunt at the 58th Annual GRAMMY Awards®, where the seven-time GRAMMY winner is nominated this year for “Little Toy Guns” in the Best Country Solo Performance category. The GRAMMY Awards® will broadcast live on the CBS Television Network, Monday, Feb. 15, 2016, at 8 p.m. ET/5 p.m. PT.

 

The GRAMMYs have included Underwood in their promotional campaign, “Witness Greatness,” which celebrates the uniqueness of Music’s Biggest Night through TV, print, social, and outdoor advertisements. Also featured are Lady Gaga, Kendrick Lamar, Bruno Mars, Sam Smith, and The Weeknd.

 

The Storyteller Tour – Stories in the Round is promoted by AEG Live and will include special guests Easton Corbin and The Swon Brothers on the North American dates. Tickets are available now at www.aeglive.com.

 

The Storyteller Tour:

Jan-30	Jacksonville, FL	Jacksonville Veterans Memorial Arena
Feb-1	Duluth, GA	Infinite Energy Arena
Feb-3	Greensboro, NC	Greensboro Coliseum
Feb-5	Louisville, KY	KFC Yum! Center
Feb-17	Pittsburgh, PA	CONSOL Energy Center
Feb-20	Hampton, VA	Hampton Coliseum
Feb-22	Philadelphia, PA	Wells Fargo Center
Feb-23	Boston, MA	TD Garden
Feb-25	Washington, DC	Verizon Center
Mar 4 Mar 5 Mar-11	Stockholm, Sweden Oslo, Norway Glasgow, Scotland	C2C/ Hovet* C2C/ Spektrum* C2C/ Clyde Auditorium*
Mar-12	London, England	C2C/ O2 Arena*
Mar-13	Dublin, Ireland	C2C/ 3 Arena*
Mar-17	Youngstown, OH	Covelli Centre
Mar-19	Allentown, PA	PPL Center
Mar-22	Auburn Hills, MI	The Palace of Auburn Hills
Mar-24	St. Louis, MO	Chaifetz Arena
Mar-26	Lincoln, NE	Pinnacle Bank Arena
Mar-29	Colorado Springs, CO	Broadmoor World Arena
Mar-30	Denver, CO	Pepsi Center
Apr-1	Las Vegas, NV	ACM Party for a Cause Festival*
Apr-5	Fresno, CA	Save Mart Center
Apr-8	Reno, NV	Reno Events Center
Apr-10	Oakland, CA	Oracle Arena
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

*festival date

 

Each of Carrie’s three previous headline arena tours, 2008’s Carnival Ride Tour, the Play On Tour in 2010, and 2012-2013’s Blown Away Tour played for over one million fans. When the Blown Away Tour wrapped in 2013, Carrie had performed 112 shows in 110 cities across three continents and six countries, including sold-out shows at London’s prestigious Royal Albert Hall, and two nights at the Sydney Opera House in Sydney, Australia.

 

Continuing its tradition of pairing artists in never-before-seen GRAMMY Moments, The Recording Academy announced that seven-time GRAMMY winner and current nominee Carrie Underwood will return to the stage on Music’s Biggest Night for a collaboration with Sam Hunt.

 

The 58th Annual GRAMMY Awards will be broadcast live on CBS, Monday, Feb. 15, 2016, at 8 p.m. ET/5 p.m. PT.

 

 

Carrie Underwood Expands “The Storyteller Tour” With Additional International Shows
New Headline Dates in Sweden and Norway for C2C Scandinavia
 
North American Arena Tour Launches in January

 

 

NASHVILLE, TN – Nashville, TN – (December 14, 2015) – Seven-time Grammy winner and Pollstar’s three-time top female country touring artist, Carrie Underwood, has expanded The Storyteller Tour to include two additional concerts during Europe’s biggest country music festival, Country to Country (C2C), in Scandinavia next March playing both Stockholm, Sweden and Oslo, Norway.  Underwood is already headlining C2C in Glasgow, Scotland; London, England; and Dublin, Ireland.  The Storyteller Tour, whose North American run is in association with award-winning cosmetics brand ALMAY, will kick off January 30 in Jacksonville, Florida, playing 40 arenas across the U.S. and Canada.

 

The 2016 tour is in support of Carrie’s now Gold-certified Storyteller album, which made a historic debut in October when she became the only artist in the chart’s 51-year history to have each of her first six albums to enter the chart at #1.

 

The North American tour, promoted by AEG Live, will include special guests Easton Corbin and The Swon Brothers. Tickets are available now at www.aeglive.com.

 

The Storyteller Tour:

 

Jan-30	Jacksonville, FL	Jacksonville Veterans Memorial Arena
Feb-1	Duluth, GA	Infinite Energy Arena
Feb-3	Greensboro, NC	Greensboro Coliseum
Feb-5	Louisville, KY	KFC Yum! Center
Feb-17	Pittsburgh, PA	CONSOL Energy Center
Feb-20	Hampton, VA	Hampton Coliseum
Feb-22	Philadelphia, PA	Wells Fargo Center
Feb-23	Boston, MA	TD Garden
Feb-25	Washington, DC	Verizon Center
Mar 4 Mar 5 Mar-11	Stockholm, Sweden Oslo, Norway Glasgow, Scotland	C2C/ Hovet* C2C/ Spektrum* C2C/ Clyde Auditorium*
Mar-12	London, England	C2C/ O2 Arena*
Mar-13	Dublin, Ireland	C2C/ 3 Arena*
Mar-17	Youngstown, OH	Covelli Centre
Mar-19	Allentown, PA	PPL Center
Mar-22	Auburn Hills, MI	The Palace of Auburn Hills
Mar-24	St. Louis, MO	Chaifetz Arena
Mar-26	Lincoln, NE	Pinnacle Bank Arena
Mar-29	Colorado Springs, CO	Broadmoor World Arena
Mar-30	Denver, CO	Pepsi Center
Apr-1	Las Vegas, NV	ACM Party for a Cause Festival*
Apr-5	Fresno, CA	Save Mart Center
Apr-8	Reno, NV	Reno Events Center
Apr-10	Oakland, CA	Oracle Arena
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

*festival date 

 

Each of Carrie’s three previous headline arena tours, 2008’s Carnival Ride Tour, the Play On Tour in 2010, and 2012-2013’s Blown Away Tour played for over one million fans. When the Blown Away Tour wrapped in 2013, Carrie had performed 112 shows in 110 cities across three continents and six countries, including sold-out shows at London’s prestigious Royal Albert Hall, and two nights at the Sydney Opera House in Sydney, Australia.

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

Carrie Underwood Earns a GRAMMY® Nomination as Storyteller Goes Gold and Returns to #1!

 

Underwood’s Latest Album Reclaims the Top Spot on Billboard’s Country Albums Chart

 

NASHVILLE, TN – Seven-time GRAMMY winner Carrie Underwood scored the 21st of her 22 #1 singles with “Little Toy Guns” (from  her Greatest Hits: Decade #1), and today, her performance of the song earned her a Best Country Solo Performance GRAMMY nomination for the 58th Annual GRAMMY Awards®.

 

The GRAMMY news comes as Carrie’s new Storyteller album achieves RIAA Gold certification and also returns to #1 this week on Billboard’s Top Country Albums sales chart.  Last month, Storyteller notched a historic debut when Carrie became the only artist in the chart’s 51-year history to have each of her first six albums enter the chart at #1.

 

Following the success of Storyteller’s first single, the chart-topping “Smoke Break,” Underwood is new on the airwaves with her co-written “Heartbeat,” a song that All Access lauds as “sexy and beautiful and classy and raw,” while Billboard simply calls it “the country love ballad of our dreams.”  The song’s gorgeous new Randee St. Nicholas-directed music video can be seen online now.

 

 

Storyteller is available for sale here.

 

On a separate GRAMMY note, this past Sunday, Carrie was among the stars performing songs made famous by Frank Sinatra as part of the CBS airing of Sinatra 100 – An All-Star GRAMMY Concert.  The event honored Sinatra’s remarkable legacy in celebration of the upcoming occasion of what would have been his 100th birthday.  For the show, Underwood performed “Someone to Watch over Me” and joined Zac Brown and Seth MacFarlane for a medley of “Come Fly with Me,” “Bewitched,” “Stars Fell on Alabama,” and “Learning the Blues.”

 

 

The 58th Annual GRAMMY Awards will take place Monday, February 15, 2016, live from STAPLES Center in Los Angeles, airing on CBS Television from 8 – 11:30 p.m. (ET/PT).