Country star Carrie Underwood will release the follow-up to 2007’s platinum-selling smash Carnival Ride on November 3, reps for the star announced on Tuesday. The still-untitled LP is due out on 19 Recordings/Arista Nashville.

Country music superstars Carrie Underwood, Kenny Chesney, Sugarland and Darius Rucker will each give a performance on The Oprah Winfrey Show next Tuesday, April 14.

“It’s really strange. I mean, you’re under a microscope, and even if you start — you’re getting to know somebody, you just met them — they have you married off next week, you know what I mean? So it’s a little difficult and it’s a little difficult to know people’s intentions, I think,” Carrie said of dating in the public during her post-performance interview with Oprah.

Carrie Underwood has apologized to actor Matthew McConaughey after making a sexual joke about the dashing star during her acceptance speech at the Academy of Country Music Awards in Las Vegas last Sunday night. Read the rest of this entry »

It was a big night for former American Idol Carrie Underwood at Sunday’s Academy of Country Music Awards. The country cutie accepted trophies for Top Female Vocalist and Entertainer of the Year, ending Kenny Chesney’s streak of taking home the Entertainer of the Year award four years in a row.

Here’s a video of Carrie performing her hit single “I Told You So” during last night’s ceremony.

Joined by country music hitmaker Randy Travis, American Idol 4 champ Carrie Underwood returned to the Idol stage on Wednesday night to turn in a live performance of the single “I Told You So.”

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American Idol’s Season 4 champ will return to the Idol stage for a performance on Wednesday, March 18. Carrie Underwood is set to perform on next week’s Idol, which will feature a Grand Ole Opry theme as contestants select and perform songs popularized by Opry members.
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Carrie Underwood has recorded a remake of Motley Crue’s “Home Sweet Home” to be played as a farewell ballad to each finalist sent home on the eighth season of American Idol, FOX announced on Monday.

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Eva Longoria Parker, Carrie Underwood, Brooke Shields, Lauren Hutton, Anjelica Huston Badgley Mischka Ad

Label founders Mark Badgley and James Mischka are celebrating the 20th anniversary of the chic brand with star-studded ad campaign shot by legendary photographer Annie Leibovitz. Read the rest of this entry »

Carrie Underwood, who just accepted a Grammy for Best Female Country Vocal Performance for the song “Last Name,” took the stage to sing the hit live at the 51st annual Grammy Awards in Los Angeles on Sunday.

Carrie Underwood performs during the 35th Annual People’s Choice Awards.

Charttopping country music star Carrie Underwood took the stage for a live performance of her single “I Know You Won’t” at the 2009 People’s Choice Awards on Wednesday night.

Carrie nabbed three trophies at last night’s ceremony. Read the rest of this entry »