Latest Release
- SEP 22, 2023
- 18 Songs
- Leather Deluxe Edition · 2024
- Some Hearts · 2005
- Macon · 2021
- Blown Away · 2012
- Carnival Ride · 2007
- Storyteller · 2015
- Blown Away · 2012
- Out Of That Truck - Single · 2023
- Play On · 2009
- Ripcord · 2016
Essential Albums
- Carrie Underwood keeps her winning streak going with her fourth album, Blown Away. The first single, “Good Girl,” displays maturity and versatility, analyzing the slim line between being naive and knowledgeable in a rocking tune that's already topped the country charts. Look for more of Underwood's wisdom in songs like “Good in Goodbye,” “Leave Love Alone,” and “Forever Changed,” plus her hell-raising, provocative side in “Cupid’s Got a Shotgun" and “Wine After Whiskey.”
- Carrie Underwood’s 2005 debut album, Some Hearts, has gone seven times platinum in the U.S. alone. And with her smash hit “Jesus, Take the Wheel,” it’s easy to understand Underwood’s overnight success. Built on a moving power ballad, the song is elegantly trimmed with warm, rootsy instruments and powerful string arrangements. Over this, Underwood sings a gripping narrative on faith and mortality. The album’s title track is a catchy standout that infuses a Nashville-flavored anthemic hit with innovative production that has more in common with over-the-top arena rock. She pulls harder on those heartstrings with “Don’t Forget To Remember Me,” but it’s in songs like the sassy “Before He Cheats” where Underwood reveals her true grit, singing about the other woman with a tough fervor on par with Miranda Lambert.
Albums
- 2018
- 2015
- 2012
Artist Playlists
- She's more than an American Idol—here's why.
- See her many personas crystallize before your eyes.
- The twang of Reba meets the attitude of arena rock.
- Carrie’s Las Vegas residency blends Nashville heart with Sin City glamour. Get the set list here.
- “I feel like I've been celebrating Christmas all year.”
Compilations
Appears On
- Alan Menken & Stephen Schwartz, Amy Adams & Carrie Underwood
More To Hear
- Who among us hasn’t married a stranger in Vegas?
- The singer on "Out Of That Truck," driving, and creativity.
- “Before He Cheats” was a gut feeling and wound up a huge hit.
- Carrie Underwood joins for an in-depth chat about her album.
- Carrie Underwood on creating her album 'Denim & Rhinestones.'
- Carrie on "Ghost Story," an upcoming project, and more.
- More of Kelleigh's chat with Carrie about her christmas album.
About Carrie Underwood
Carrie Underwood took a bat to a scuzzball boyfriend’s prized ride more than a decade before Beyoncé did in Lemonade. And amazingly enough, when the country star vandalized a vehicle in the video for 2005’s quintuple-platinum “Before He Cheats,” it wasn’t righteous rage she projected—it was pure poise. Underwood was relatable yet unusually composed from the start, a middle-class woman singing about being romantically wronged or living hand-to-mouth who never comes undone, even with a Louisville Slugger in hand. Maybe that’s because she took her time stepping to the plate. Born in Muskogee, Oklahoma, in 1983, Underwood dreamt of becoming a singer but decided on a more practical path—a communications degree—before auditioning for American Idol as a last-ditch effort. With powerful pipes and farmgirl charm, she handily won the show’s 2005 season, while her Some Hearts debut that same year further defined her as a forceful performer with vocal range and athletic theatricality. On 2007’s follow-up, Carnival Ride, platinum tunes like “So Small,” “Last Name,” and Randy Travis duet “I Told You So” exemplified her high-gloss approach: songs that emphasize self-confidence, hair-metal guitar sheen, dance-pop synths, and arena beats. Throughout her career, Underwood has celebrated women in country music—like favoring female opening acts—while upping her songwriting game, bringing unpretentious elegance to a Nashville industry overrun with male composers. By 2018’s Cry Pretty, her sixth album, she’d co-written nine of 13 songs, and co-produced the whole thing. She’s refined her singing too, moving from set-piece performances to R&B-influenced, loose and (seemingly) casual vocals. But even in slicker moments like Ludacris duet “The Champion,” when she wails, “I am invincible,” you know the bat-wielding dynamo of old is still getting in her licks.
- HOMETOWN
- Muskogee, OK, United States
- BORN
- March 10, 1983
- GENRE
- Country