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Carrie Underwood emerged from the promise of her 2005 American Idol win to become a true multi­

format, multi-media superstar, spanning achievements in music, television, and film. A seven-time GRAMMY®

Award winner, she has amassed over 100 major honors, sold 64 million records worldwide, and recorded 26 #1

singles, 13 of which she co-wrote, with a catalog of songs that have been streamed more than 2.6 billion times

worldwide.

Carrie will release her eagerly-anticipated new album, Cry Pretty, on September 14. Cry Pretty will be

her first studio album on Capitol Records Nashville and marks the first time she has co-produced her own album.

In its first lull week of sales, the lead single and title track, “Cry Pretty” debuted as the #1 song in the U.S. all­

genres. The song also topped download charts in 38 countries around the world and amassed over 3.5 billion

social impressions across 66 countries during its week of launch in April, which was culminated with a show­

stopping performance on the “2018 ACM Awards” telecast. Carrie co-wrote the powerful single with Hillary

Lindsey, Lori McKenna, and Liz Rose (aka The Love Junkies) and is co-producing Cry Pretty with fellow

writer/producer David Garcia. The emotional, stylistic video for “Cry Pretty,” directed by Randee St. Nicholas,

premiered in May. Earlier this year, she released the hit event anthem she co-wrote, “The Champion” featuring

Ludacris, which opened NBC’s Super Bowl and was incorporated into the network’s coverage of the 2018

Olympic Winter Games.

Carrie is the first female artist to be twice named the Academy of Country Music’s Entertainer of the

Year. In addition to seven GRAMMY® awards, she has won six CM A Awards, 17 CMT Music Awards, 12

American Music Awards and numerous other awards and honors. She recently took home her 14th career ACM

Award for Vocal Event of the Year for “The Fighter,” her collaboration with Keith Urban.

She was recognized by Pollstar as the top female country touring artist for each of her headlining tours in

2008, 2010, 2012 and for 201.6’s “Tire Storyteller Tour- - Stories in the Round.

Toots of 2016 as the leading female country artist and was the leading female artist on Country Aircheck’s top

country radio performers list for her success in both 2015 and 2016. Her five studio albums, Some

Hearts, Carnival Ride, Play On, Blown Away and Storyteller - are certified Platinum or multi-Platinum, each

winning an American Music Award as Favorite Country Album and tallying an incredible 40 weeks at #1

on Billboard’s Top Country Albums chart.

Carrie topped Billboard’s Top 25

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The RIAA’s highest certified country album artist to debut this century, Underwood also holds the

distinction of the highest album certification of any country artist to emerge since 2000 with the 8x Multi­

Platinum success of her 2005 debut, Some Hearts. She is the all-time Top Country Artist (male or female) on

RIAA’s Digital Single Ranking, also placing her among the Top 5 females in the history of RIAA’s Digital Single

Program across all genres.

In December of 2014, she released her Platinum-certified Greatest Hits: Decade #1, which produced two

new #1 hits co-written by Underwood, including the RIAA-Platinum, GRAMMY-winning “Something in the

Water.” Her chart-topping platinum fifth studio album, Storyteller, produced four #1 hits.

Underwood demonstrated her creative diversity in 2013 starring as Maria von Trapp in NBC’s three-hour

holiday blockbuster, the Emmy®-winning The Sound of Music Live!, whose airings attracted 44 million viewers.

The broadcast ushered in a new era of live television musicals and remains the highest rated production amongst

those that have followed.

This Spring, Carrie celebrated her 10th anniversary as a proud member of the Grand Ole Opry and will

return this Fall for her sixth season as the voice of primetime television’s #1 program, Sunday Night Football.

Last November, Undemood co-hosted the CMA Awards for die tenth consecutive year.

Carrie is lead designer for her fitness and lifestyle brand, CAL1A by Carrie Undemood, which launched

in 2015 and is exclusively available at DICK’S Sporting Goods nationwide and online at www.caliastudio.com.

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