Carrie Underwood with special guests Craig Morgan and Sons of Sylvia

Underwood recently launched her third album, PLAY ON, at the No. 1 spot on both the country and pop album sales charts and has sold over 700,000 copies in 5 weeks. The release earned the highest first-week sales of the year for any solo country artist at that point and makes Underwood the only country act in Nielsen SoundScan history to achieve first-week sales of more than 300,000 units on each of their first three albums.  The feat also extends to “American Idol,” where the Season Four winner is the first contestant to launch three albums in a row above the 300K threshold, with her 2005 debut, Some Hearts, now seven-times Platinum, and 2007’s Carnival Ride currently triple-Platinum.   
 
Underwood is a four-time GRAMMY winner, ACM Entertainer of the Year, a three-time CMA and three-time reigning ACM Female Vocalist winner, and a member of the Grand Ole Opry with total album sales now in excess of 11 million.