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Show Leads in to the October 23 Release of Carrie’s New Album, Carnival Ride
Reigning CMA and ACM Female Vocalist and two-time GRAMMY winner Carrie Underwood will perform the television debut of her latest smash, “So Small,” from the stage of the Grand Ole Opry for GAC’s televised Opry Live, airing October 20. The show marks a double celebration as the venerable Opry enjoys its 82nd birthday, while Underwood looks ahead to the release of her new album, Carnival Ride, on October 23.

In addition to her Opry appearance on Saturday the 20th, fans in Nashville will also be able to see Carrie perform live at the Opry next Tuesday, October 9.

Currently Top-10-and-climbing on the country airplay charts, “So Small” is the debut single from Carnival Ride, Carrie’s first album following the six-million-selling success of her ACM Album of the Year, Some Hearts.

Carrie Underwood’s newest music video, “So Small,” set single day streaming records for CMT.com during its exclusive debut on Thursday, September 20, and is expected to set full week streaming records during its first week of exclusive availability on CMT.com. The Web site’s single day traffic on September 20 shot up 10% in unique users versus the site’s daily average, and the video netted the highest number of one-day streams for a single video on record for CMT.com. During its debut week, “So Small” is projected to stream an estimated 200,000 times, setting a first week streaming record for CMT.com. CMT.com was the exclusive host of the online stream of “So Small,” during its debut week from Thursday, September 20 – 27.

In addition to its exclusive online debut, “So Small” made its world television premiere last Thursday, as CMT aired the video back-to-back for six straight hours, becoming “Carrie Music Television.” The stunt was the first of its kind for CMT with the video airing 66 consecutive times. The event also coincided with the music video’s world premiere for purchase at the iTunes Store (www.itunes.com), which was the exclusive source to purchase the video throughout its debut week.

“So Small,” written by Underwood, Luke Laird, and Hillary Lindsey, broke records earlier this month when it earned the highest first-week sales of any country airplay single in digital history. The song also debuted on the Billboard/R&R country airplay chart last month as the highest entry by a solo country female artist in Nielsen BDS history.

Underwood’s new 19 Recordings/Arista Nashville album, Carnival Ride, will be released October 23.

NASHVILLE – “Country Music’s Biggest Night” is getting even bigger with the announcement today that Carrie will perform at “The 41st Annual CMA Awards!” The CMA Awards air live Wednesday, Nov. 7 (8:00-1:00 PM/ET) on the ABC Television Network from the Sommet Center in Nashville.

After winning CMA Female Vocalist of the Year and the Horizon Award in 2006, Carrie is back in 2007 with three nominations for Female Vocalist, Single for “Before He Cheats,” and Music Video of the Year for the same song directed by Roman White. Songwriters for “Before He Cheats,” Josh Kear and Chris Tompkins were nominated for Song of the Year.

Tickets for the 2007 CMA Awards are on sale now and can be purchased by logging on to www.ticketmaster.com ; calling (615) 255-9600; or in person at the Sommet Center box office, 501 Broadway (corner of Fifth Avenue and Broadway, in Nashville).

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Carrie putes her best fashion foot forward at this year’s Fashion Rocks! The show brings together amazing musical performances and the world’s hottest fashions in a star-studded extravaganzza celebrating the relationship between fashion and music. The concert will air the following night Friday, September 7, 2007 in a two-hour special on the CBS network (9:00 – 11:00, ET/PT)

Congrats to Carrie for taking home THREE Academy Country Music Awards this year. Her honor’s include Top Female Vocalist, Vocalist Of The Year and Video Of The Year.

Carrie picked up three trophies Sunday night at the 49th Annual GRAMMY Awards held at the Staples Center at Los Angeles, including the coveted Best New Artist. Her #1 hit single, Jesus Take the Wheel, won awards for Best Female Country Vocal Performance and Best Country Song. Congratulations Carrie!!

Carrie will add more trophies to her award case after walking away with her first awards of 2007 with victories in both her nominated categories at the People’s Choice Awards last night – Favorite Female Singer and Favorite Country Song for Before He Cheats. Congrats!