New York, NY (Top40 Charts) Superstar
Carrie Underwood wraps 2022 on a high note, setting the stage for another stellar year in 2023. She closes out the year as Billboard's Top Country Female 2022, Country Aircheck's #1 Top Female of the Year, and MediaBase's Most Played Female Country Artist this year.
She continued her career-long winning streak with multiple awards and honors, beginning with her eighth GRAMMY® Award for Best
Roots Gospel Album (My Savior), continuing with her 16th ACM Award for Single of the Year ("
If I Didn't Love You" with Jason Aldean), 24th and 25th CMT
Music Awards for Collaborative Video of the Year Award and Video of the Year ("
If I Didn't Love You" with Jason Aldean), holding the record for the most award wins ever for the show. "
If I Didn't Love You" also won an iHeartRadio
Music Award for Country Song of the Year, and is the third Most Played Country Song of the Year on Mediabase's year-end chart. Carrie ended the year winning the People's Choice Award for The Country Artist of 2022, marking her 10th win for the fan-voted awards.
Other highlights of Underwood's year include the release of her album, Denim & Rhinestones, in June, marking her 10th consecutive career Top 10 debut on the Billboard Top 200 chart for all genres. Along with Cry Pretty and GRAMMY Award-winning My Savior, Underwood also co-produced Denim & Rhinestones, which debuted as the top-selling country album in the U.S, and the #1 country album in Australia, Canada, and the UK. The album has also remained in the top 20 Current Country Albums sales chart since its release. She celebrated the launch of her much-anticipated album with The Denim & Rhinestones Experience, a one-of-a-kind immersive interactive experience for fans at Nashville's historic Bell Tower in June. Denim & Rhinestones has amassed over 290M Global streams and nearly 120k Global album sales to date.
Her first single from the album, "Ghost Story," is RIAA certified gold. Underwood showcased the single in a showstopping broadcast premiere performance on the GRAMMY Awards telecast, followed by a high-flying performance on the CMT
Music Awards, and an iconic music video, directed by legendary photographer and director Randee St. Nicholas, who has shot many of Carrie's album covers and videos over the course of her career (watch here). Her follow-up single, "Hate My Heart," was #1 most added at country radio twice (non-consecutive weeks) and continues to rise the charts with more than 10.5M Global streams to date, following an electrifying performance on the CMA Awards. Carrie co-wrote "Hate My Heart" with frequent collaborators Hillary Lindsey and
David Garcia, as well as hit artist/songwriter Hardy. The music video for "Hate My Heart"(watch here) was directed by award-winning music video director Shaun Silva, who recently directed Underwood and Jason Aldean's music video for their multi-week #1 smash hit duet, "If I Didn't Love You."
In April, Carrie commanded the legendary Stagecoach Festival stage for the fourth time, and her showstopping surprise performance with
Guns N' Roses front man Axl Rose made headlines around the world. She thrilled fans again when she joined
Guns N' Roses onstage for two songs during each of their shows at the UK's Tottenham Hotspur Stadium in July. In September, Carrie returned for her 10th season as the voice of primetime television's #1 program, NBC's Sunday Night Football.
Carrie kicked off her new 43-city U.S. arena tour, THE DENIM & RHINESTONES TOUR, on October 15 with a sold-out show in Greenville, SC, continuing through
Spring 2023, with upcoming stops including New York's Madison
Square Garden, Nashville's Bridgestone Arena, and L.A.'s Crypto.com Arena. She is joined on THE DENIM & RHINESTONES TOUR by special guest
Jimmie Allen on all dates, with $1 from each ticket sold for THE DENIM & RHINESTONES TOUR will be contributed to the Tunnel to Towers Foundation. Tickets and limited VIP packages are available at carrieunderwoodofficial.com/tour/.
On December 1, the one-year anniversary of the debut of her hit production, REFLECTION: The Las
Vegas Residency at Resorts World Theatre, Carrie announced that her much-anticipated return to Las
Vegas will commence on June 21, 2023, after she wraps THE DENIM & RHINESTONES TOUR in March. Tickets for 18 new show dates for REFLECTION, produced by Concerts West/ AEG Presents, are on sale now at axs.com/carrieinvegas. The first artist to grace the Resorts World Theatre stage, Carrie opened the doors of the 5,000-capacity, world-class theatre with a sold-out premiere in December 2021, garnering rave reviews by critics and fans alike and selling out all runs in 2022.
Carrie Underwood is a true multi-format, multi-media superstar, spanning achievements in music, television, film, and as a New York Times bestselling author and successful entrepreneur. She has sold more than 66 million records worldwide, recorded 28 #1 singles (14 of which she co-wrote), is the most-awarded female country artist for singles in RIAA history, and has seven albums that are certified Multi-Platinum or Platinum by the RIAA, with over 72 million total RIAA certifications to date, all while continuing to sell out arena tours across North
America and the UK. All 10 of her albums (including nine studio albums and her 2014 Greatest Hits: Decade #1) - three of which she co-produced - have debuted in the Top 10 on the Billboard Top 200 chart for all genres, beginning with her first album, Some Hearts, which was released in 2005. She has won over 100 major awards including 8 GRAMMY® Awards, 16 ACM Awards including three for Entertainer of the Year (the first female in history to win twice and the only female ever to win three times), 25 CMT
Music Awards (holding the record for the most award wins ever for the show), 7 CMA Awards, and 17 American
Music Awards. She has also built a successful business portfolio inspired by her passion for health and wellness. She founded and created the fitness and lifestyle brand, CALIA by Carrie Underwood, and her first book, FIND YOUR PATH was an instant New York Times bestseller. She launched her fitness app, fit52, in 2020, and expanded her lifestyle portfolio with an equity partnership with BODYARMOR Sports Drink in 2021. Carrie currently stars in the show open for NBC's Sunday Night Football for the 10th consecutive season. She was the first artist to perform at the new Resorts World Theatre, where her ongoing REFLECTION: The Las
Vegas Residency, began with sold-out runs in December 2021 and throughout
Spring 2022, and will continue in 2023. Her album, Denim & Rhinestones, which she co-produced, is out now, and her 43-city U.S. arena tour, THE DENIM & RHINESTONES TOUR, kicked off October 15 and continues through
Spring 2023.
