Meet Allison this week’s Featured Care Bear! Learn more about Allison and their Care Bear story below.

Where are you from? Swansboro, NC

When did you join The Official Carrie Underwood Fan Club? December 4, 2019

Tell us your favorite Carrie Underwood memory: When she sang “How Great Thou Art” with Vince Gill. Every time I listen to it, it takes my breath away and leaves me speechless.

What is your go-to Carrie-Okie song? Before He Cheats

What is the best part about being a Carrie Underwood fan? I just love Carrie with all my heart. Also I love the fan community because we all have something in common, that being the extreme love for Carrie Underwood.

What is your favorite song from the Cry Pretty album? Kingdom

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Meet Julia this week’s Featured Care Bear! Learn more about Julia and their Care Bear story below.

Where are you from? Pensacola, FL

When did you join The Official Carrie Underwood Fan Club? August 8, 2018

Tell us your favorite Carrie Underwood memory: My favorite memory was watching Carrie sing “How Great Thou Art” on ACM Honors. That amazing voice gave me goosebumps the first time I heard her sing that, and it still does every single time I hear it. She truly has an anointing from God.

What is your go-to Carrie-Okie song? Jesus, Take the Wheel

What is the best part about being a Carrie Underwood fan? Listening to her sing just takes my breath away every time I hear it. She can sing anything!

What is your favorite song from the Cry Pretty album? Ghosts on the Stereo

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Meet Justin this week’s Featured Care Bear! Learn more about Justin and their Care Bear story below.

Where are you from? Newmarket, Ontario, Canada

When did you join The Official Carrie Underwood Fan Club? Oh, I’m not sure but I can tell you it’s been a while!

Tell us your favorite Carrie Underwood memory: My favourite Carrie Underwood memory that I will remember for the rest of my life is when I met her on her Cry Pretty Tour 360 stop in Ottawa and realizing how much she loves her fans. During the meet and greet I was so nervous my head went blank, so I couldn’t get many words out of my mouth and she made me feel like she was my best friend and knew how to calm me down and feel comfortable.

What is your go-to Carrie-Okie song? Southbound, of course.

What is the best part about being a Carrie Underwood fan? The best part of being a Care Bear is Carrie always wearing her heart on her sleeve towards everyone no matter if you’re a fan or not! In today’s society we need more people like Carrie.

What is your favorite song from the Cry Pretty album? It’s so hard to choose! If I have to choose I would say The Champion.

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Underwood Wins 7th Award for Favorite Female Artist – Country, and 6th Win for Favorite Country Album for Cry Pretty, Breaking the AMA Record for Most Wins in the Favorite Country Album Category

Carrie Underwood/2019 American Music Awards
(Photo Credit: American Broadcasting Company – Copyright 2019)

(November 25, 2019) – Superstar Carrie Underwood broke the record for most wins for Favorite Country Album with her 6th win in the category on the “2019 American Music Awards,” broadcast live on ABC from the Microsoft Theatre in Los Angeles on Sunday, November 24.  Underwood was recognized by fans this year for her critically acclaimed album, Cry Pretty, giving her the most wins in the category and making her the only artist in the history of the AMAs to win Favorite Country Album for all six of her studio album releases (Some Hearts, Carnival Ride, Play On, Blown Away, Storyteller, and now, Cry Pretty).  Other nominees in the category this year included Dan + Shay’s Dan + Shay and Kane Brown’s Experiment.

Underwood also won her 7th award as Favorite Female Artist – Country.  With previous wins for Favorite New Breakthrough Artist in 2006 and the T-Mobile Text-In Award for Artist of the Year in 2007, this year’s ceremony brings Underwood to 15 career total American Music Awards, tied with Reba McEntire as the most awarded female country artists in AMA history, and ranking her among the top 10 all-time winners in all categories, across all genres.

The American Music Awards is the world’s largest fan-voted award show, paying tribute to today’s most influential and iconic artists.  The show is produced by dick clark productions and is seen in more than 200 countries and territories around the world.  Nominations are based on key fan interactions as reflected on Billboard.com, including streaming, album and digital song sales, radio airplay, social activity and touring. These measurements are tracked by Billboard and its data partners, including Nielsen Music and Next Big Sound, and reflect the time period of September 28, 2018 through September 26, 2019.

Underwood recently completed her stellar The Cry Pretty Tour 360, closing out the tour in the #1 spot on Pollstar’s LIVE75 chart (11/04/19), which ranks worldwide active tours by average tickets sold.  On November 13, she hosted ABC’s CMA Awards for the 12th consecutive year.  She was joined this year by special guest hosts Reba McEntire and Dolly Parton for the three-hour live telecast, which dominated the night, ranking #1 in all 6 half-hours of primetime, as well as the becoming the #1 most social entertainment program across broadcast and cable for the night, with 2.4M total social interactions across all platforms, marking a 104% increase over the 2018 telecast, as measured by Nielsen Social.

Meet Tricia this week’s Featured Care Bear! Learn more about Tricia and their Care Bear story below.

Where are you from? Cincinnati, Ohio, USA

When did you join The Official Carrie Underwood Fan Club? December 2018

What are the top 3 songs you are hoping to hear on The Cry Pretty Tour 360?I went and my favorite were:
1. Jesus Take the Wheel
2. Cry Pretty
3. Before He Cheats
(It was hard to choose just three.)

Tell us your favorite Carrie Underwood memory: I loved seeing her perform live in concert. She just inspires me so much because she is an amazing singer and also just a really great person. Whenever she is on TV for some event, I get excited to watch her. She’s just as genuine today as she was years ago when she won American Idol.

What is your go-to Carrie-Okie song? Last Name

What is the best part about being a Carrie Underwood fan? You get to have a great role model as an inspiration. She’s someone who I definitely want to be like.

What is your favorite song from the Cry Pretty album? Drinking Alone

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Meet Ella this week’s Featured Care Bear! Learn more about Ella and their Care Bear story below.

Where are you from? Canton, GA, USA

When did you join The Official Carrie Underwood Fan Club? May 2019

What are the top 3 songs you are hoping to hear on The Cry Pretty Tour 360?Drinking Alone, Southbound, End Up With You

Tell us your favorite Carrie Underwood memory: Since I’ve never been to a concert; I loved being able to enter to rap on stage with Carrie. I did a research paper on her in 7th grade and I’m in 8th grade now. My school is a christian school so the topic was strong christian women and men and I chose Carrie and I learned so many amazing things about her and how loyal and humble and sweet she is.

What is your go-to Carrie-Okie song? Good Girl

What is the best part about being a Carrie Underwood fan? Having someone so sweet to look up to and seeing how humble she is about her voice, and how she’s always trying to incorporate her fans in anyway possible.

What is your favorite song from the Cry Pretty album? End Up With You and Southbound

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SOLD-OUT SHOWS, INCLUDING NEW YORK’S MADISON SQUARE GARDEN, NASHVILLE’S BRIDGESTONE ARENA AND L.A.’S STAPLES CENTER

HEARTFELT FAN PERFORMANCES OF “THE CHAMPION”

ALL-FEMALE LINE-UP FEATURING SPECIAL GUESTS MADDIE & TAE AND RUNAWAY JUNE PERFORM CROWD-PLEASING TRIBUTE TO WOMEN OF COUNTRY

Carrie Underwood/The Cry Pretty Tour 360
(Photo Credit: Ralph Larmann)

(November 4, 2019) – Reigning CMA Female Vocalist of the Year, seven-time Grammy Award-winner and Pollstar’s three-time top female country touring artist Carrie Underwood has completed THE CRY PRETTY TOUR 360. Underwood closed out the tour in the #1 spot on Pollstar’s LIVE75 chart (11/04/19), which ranks worldwide active tours by average tickets sold.

The tour began May 1 in Greensboro, NC and concluded October 31 in Detroit, MI, packing arenas in 60+ cities across North America. Numerous 360-degree sold-out shows included New York’s Madison Square Garden, Nashville’s Bridgestone Arena and L.A.’s STAPLES Center, among many others. Underwood was joined by special guests Maddie & Tae and Runaway June throughout the tour, which was sponsored by CALIA.

THE CRY PRETTY TOUR 360 consistently garnered both critical and fan acclaim for its innovative production and eye-shaped stage design in the middle of the arena floor to create an intimate view for all attendees and for Underwood’s standout vocal performances. Critics have been uninamous in their praise of Carrie and THE CRY PRETTY TOUR 360:

“While much discussion about a woman’s place in country music is happening, Underwood is walking instead of talking. Taking two young female acts on the road, she delivered an arena show that goes toe-to-toe with anyone in any genre, not just country, as a vocalist, as a show(wo)man, as the embodiment or
realization of what the audience aspires to. And she does it in 5-inch heels.” (Pollstar)

“An artist that both entertains and inspires, Underwood’s Cry Pretty Tour 360 cements her entertainer of the year status” (Billboard)

“The 360 production is second to none. – Underwood’s 360 stage is a work of art, as it
features an incredible hydraulic system that lifts up nearly half the stage… You could almost say you’re getting a show and a movie, all in one night.” (Rolling Stone)

Carrie Underwood/The Cry Pretty Tour 360

The spectacular, one-of-a-kind production utilized 36 projectors and 19 video projection screens, with 15 stage elevators and over 400 moving lights. Throughout the set, Underwood could be seen playing acoustic and electric guitar, piano and percussion at various times with her talented 8-piece band, who played 22 different types of instruments, 45 in total.

During one of the many memorable moments of her two-hour show, Underwood invited CMA nominees Maddie & Tae and ACM-nominated Runaway June to return to the stage to join her for a crowd-pleasing 10-song medley of hits by some of the many women that she cites as having paved the way for her and all of today’s female artists in the genre, featuring Tammy Wynette, Patsy Cline, Loretta Lynn, Dolly Parton, The Judds, Trisha Yearwood, Faith Hill, Reba McEntire, Martina McBride and Shania Twain.

Another standout moment of each show featured the winner of an ongoing contest, wherein fans submitted inspirational personal stories about what Underwood’s hit anthem, “The Champion,” means to them for the chance to join her on stage and perform the rap originated by Ludacris on the Platinum track. In one of her final shows in her home state of Oklahoma, Underwood was joined onstage by her mother, Carole, who she described as her own personal “champion.” Link to Carrie & Carole Underwood Video HERE and Link to “The Champion” Tour Highlights HERE.

Furthermore, Underwood arranged for a donation of $1 from each ticket sold for THE CRY PRETTY TOUR 360 to be contributed to Danita’s Children, which provides a safe haven for abandoned and vulnerable children in Haiti, while encouraging families to stay together through their education and malnutrition programs.

In June, Underwood performed her UK arena tour, THE CRY PRETTY TOUR UK, which brought her dynamic production and signature vocal prowess to thousands of fans throughout England, Wales and Scotland with five arena shows. One of the standout moments of the tour was Underwood’s milestone performance at Glastonbury Festival’s iconic Pyramid Stage and was seen around the world online. Fans traveled from numerous countries across the globe – USA, Spain, Canada, Germany, Belgium, France, Netherlands, Finland, Israel, Slovenia, Norway, Sweden and Australia, among others – to be in attendance at the shows. THE CRY PRETTY TOUR UK also featured the UK’s best-selling country act of all time, The Shires, as Underwood’s special guest.

Amidst her busy touring schedule, Underwood headlined CMA Fest 2019, where she was joined on stage by Joan Jett for a showstopping medley of Jett’s greatest hits. She performed her #1 Summer hit, “Southbound” on the ACM Awards and on the finale of “American Idol,” as well as the 2019 CMT Music Awards, where she won her 19th and 20th awards, becoming the most-awarded artist in the show’s history. As a member of the Grand Ole Opry, she has performed ten shows this year in addition to inducting new Opry member, Kelsea Ballerini. Underwood returned for her seventh season as the voice of NBC’s Sunday Night Football, primetime television’s #1 program for the past eight consecutive years, making it the most dominant primetime show since 1950. She recently performed live from her tour stop in Cleveland as one of CMT’s “2019 Artists of the Year” and has been nominated for the People’s Choice Award for Favorite Country Artist, and has earned two American Music Awards nominations this year for Favorite Female Country Artist and Favorite Country Album for Cry Pretty. Her latest single from this album, “Drinking Alone,” has just been released to country radio.

On November 13, Underwood will host the CMA Awards for the 12th consecutive year and has been nominated for three awards this year, including Entertainer of the Year, Album of the Year for Cry Pretty, and Female Vocalist of the Year. In 2020, she will once again headline the Stagecoach Festival and HarperCollins/Dey Street Books will publish her first book, FIND YOUR PATH: Honor Your Body, Fuel Your Soul, and Get Strong with the Fit52 Life, a fitness lifestyle book in which she shares her belief that fitness is a lifelong journey and not about perfection. She is celebrating her 4th anniversary as lead designer for her fitness and lifestyle brand, CALIA by Carrie Underwood, which launched in 2015 and is exclusively available at DICK’S Sporting Goods nationwide and online at www.caliastudio.com.

Congratulations to the Hidden Gems Contest winner, Jessica Rosas! We hope you enjoy the final show of the Cry Pretty Tour 360 in Detroit, MI!

For everyone who is curious to know what the 7 hidden gems are, take a look at the answers below. P.S. did anyone catch the hint Carrie gave on social media? Check it out here.

7 Hidden Gems

1. “Careless Whisper” by Wham! (saxophone part before “Drinking Alone”)
2. “Every Breath You Take” by The Police (within fiddle solo of “Wasted”)
3. “Dream On” by Aerosmith (mash-up within “Just A Dream”)
4. “Paint It Black” by The Rolling Stones (Chad’s resonator guitar solo during band intros)
5. “Freedom 90” by George Michael (Scott’s keyboard section of the band intros)
6. “Crazy Train” by Ozzy Osbourne (Sydni’s and Jordan’s solos during band intros)
7. “Bulls on Parade” by Rage Against the Machine (music bed for band intros)

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10/23/19

Carrie and her band have had so much fun on the Cry Pretty Tour 360 that Carrie wanted to run one last contest to fly you and a guest to Detroit to the last concert of the Cry Pretty Tour 360 on October 31st!

Throughout the Cry Pretty Tour 360, Carrie and her band included 7 hidden gems throughout the show. These hidden musical gems are non-country songs woven into Carrie’s songs throughout the show at various places. They could be anything from a verse to a riff. Some include vocals, some do not. None of the songs are part of the Women of Country Medley.