
Carrie Marie Underwood (born March 10, 1983) is an American singer and songwriter. She rose to prominence after winning the fourth season of American Idol in 2005. Underwood’s debut single, “Inside Your Heaven”, made her the only country artist to debut at number one on the Billboard Hot 100 chart and the only solo country artist in the 2000s to have a number-one song on the Hot 100. Her debut album, Some Hearts (2005), was bolstered by the successful crossover singles “Jesus, Take the Wheel” and “Before He Cheats”, becoming the best-selling solo female debut album in country music history. She won three Grammy Awards for the album, including Best New Artist. The next studio album, Carnival Ride (2007), had one of the biggest opening weeks of all time by a female artist and won two Grammy Awards. Her third studio album, Play On (2009), was preceded by the single “Cowboy Casanova”, which had one of the biggest single-week upward movements on the Hot 100.
She achieved the second best-selling release by a woman in 2012 and won a Grammy Award with her fourth album, Blown Away (2012). Underwood’s first compilation, Greatest Hits: Decade #1 (2014), spawned the crossover single “Something in the Water”. Her fifth studio album, Storyteller (2015), made her the only country artist to have all studio albums reach either numbers one or two on the Billboard 200 chart. With her sixth album, Cry Pretty (2018), she became the only woman to top the Billboard 200 with four country albums, and had both the biggest week for any album by a woman in 2018. She released her first Christmas project, My Gift, in 2020, and her first gospel collection, My Savior, in 2021.
Underwood has sold 70 million records worldwide. She is the sixth highest-certified female artist and the highest-certified female country artist of all time on the RIAA’s Top Artists (Digital Singles) ranking, and the female artist with the most number-one entries on the Billboard Country Airplay chart, with 16. Her accolades include seven Grammy Awards, 12 Billboard Music Awards, 17 American Music Awards, five Guinness World Records, 15 Academy of Country Music Awards and inductions into the Hollywood Walk of Fame and the Grand Ole Opry. Billboard named her the top female country artist of the 2000s and 2010s and Some Hearts the top country album of the 2000s. Time listed her as one of the 100 most influential people in the world in 2014, while Forbes declared her the most successful American Idol winner. Outside of music, Underwood has ventured into fashion and writing, releasing her fitness clothing line CALIA by Carrie in 2015 and the New York Times best-selling fitness and lifestyle book Find Your Path in 2020.
1 – Something in the Water – 2014
2 – The Fighter (with Keith Urban) – 2017
3 – Blown Away – 2012
4 – Heartbeat – 2015
5 – If I Didn’t Love You (with Jason Aldean) – 2021
6 – Before He Cheats – 2006
7 – Jesus, Take the Wheel – 2005
8 – See You Again – 2013
9 – Smoke Break – 2015
10 – Two Black Cadillacs – 2012
11 – Church Bells – 2016
12 – Dirty Laundry – 2016
13 – Little Toy Guns – 2015
14 – Temporary Home – 2009
15 – Cowboy Casanova – 2009
16 – Good Girl – 2012
17 – Somethin’ Bad (with Miranda Lambert) – 2014
18 – Remind Me (With Brad Paisley) – 2011
19 – Undo It – 2010
20 – I Told You So (featuring Randy Travis) – 2009
21 – Southbound – 2019
22 – Drinking Alone – 2019
23 – Mama’s Song – 2010
24 – So Small – 2007
25 – Last Name – 2008
26 – Inside Your Heaven – 2005
27 – Wasted – 2007
28 – All-American Girl – 2008
29 – Just a Dream – 2008
30 – Don’t Forget to Remember Me – 2006