AWARDS TELECAST TO AIR LIVE FROM THE MGM GRAND GARDEN ARENA
IN LAS VEGAS ON SUNDAY, APRIL 7 AT 8:00 PM ET/PT ON CBS

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The Academy of Country Music® revealed the winners of the new artist categories for the 54TH ACADEMY OF COUNTRY MUSIC AWARDS™, Country Music’s Party of the Year®. Luke Combs, LANCO and Ashley McBryde have been named New Male Artist of the Year, New Vocal Group of the Year and New Female Artist of the Year, respectively. The winners each received a surprise phone call from 14-time ACM Award® winner, two-time ACM Entertainer of the Year and current ACM Award nominee Carrie Underwood, who won the 2005 New Female Vocalist category at the 2006 ACM Awards.

Carrie Underwood and each of the new artist winners will all perform on the show. The awards telecast, hosted by Reba McEntire, will air LIVE from the MGM Grand Garden Arena in Las Vegas on Sunday, April 7, 2019 at 8:00 PM ET / delayed PT on the CBS Television Network.

Tickets for the ceremony are available for purchase now at www.axs.com. For more information on the ACM Awards and all ACM events including ACM Party for a Cause®, visit ACMcountry.com. You can also like Academy of Country Music on Facebook or follow on Twitter and Instagram for more immediate updates.

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

Where are you from? Blackstone, Virginia, USA

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

What are the top 3 songs you are hoping to hear on The Cry Pretty Tour 360? Drinking Alone, Backsliding, and The Bullet

Tell us your favorite Carrie Underwood memory: Buying front row tickets to the Storyteller tour and her reading my “Make my birthday wish come true, let me sing with you” sign

What is your go-to Carrie-Okie song? I love Relapse!!

What is the best part about being a Carrie Underwood fan? The fact that she is just like us, and me being a singer, aspiring to have her voice!

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

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The star-studded album Breakthrough, music from and inspired by the highly-anticipated motion picture, releases April 5 on Mercury Nashville. The soundtrack includes all original music and recordings from Adam Hambrick, Carrie Underwood, Chrissy Metz, Darius Rucker, Jukebox the Ghost, Lauren Alaina, Maddie & Tae, Mickey Guyton, Phil Wickham, Pigeon John, and Taylor Mosby plus special featured guests Kirk Franklin and Lecrae. Pre-order now HERE and immediately receive lead actor, Chrissy Metz’s “I’m Standing With You,” an original song written for the film by award-winning songwriter Diane Warren. Additional tracks featured in the movie include the inspirational hit single “Love Wins,” co-written and performed by Carrie Underwood; “Hold On,” co-written and performed by Mickey Guyton; “This is Amazing Grace,” performed by Phil Wickham featuring Lecrae; and more.

Breakthrough [Music From & Inspired By The Motion Picture] Track Listing:

1. “I’m Standing With You” – Chrissy Metz
   Written by Diane Warren
2. “Hold On” – Mickey Guyton
   Written by Mickey Guyton, Karen Kosowski, Victoria Banks
3. “Love Wins” – Carrie Underwood
   Written by Carrie Underwood, David Garcia, Brett James
4. “Breathe Again” – Lauren Alaina
   Written by Felicia Barton, David Hodges, Jason Weiss
5. “Big Old Shoulders” – Darius Rucker
   Written by Allen Shamblin, Tom Douglas
6. “Colorful” – Jukebox the Ghost
   Written by Ben Thornewill, Tommy Siegel, Jesse Kristin, Chris Wallace
7. “Play it Again” – Pigeon John
   Written by Shane Eli Abrahams, Jonathan Pakfar, John Dust
8. “Looking Out For Me” – Adam Hambrick
   Written by Adam Hambrick
9. “People Need People” – Maddie & Tae
   Written by Maddie Marlow, Taylor Dye, Jimmy Robbins
10. “This is Amazing Grace” – Phil Wickham feat. Lecrae
    Written by Phil Wickham, Josh Farro, Jeremy Riddle, Lecrae Moore
11. “Oceans (Where Feet May Fail)” – Taylor Mosby feat. Kirk Franklin
    Written by Matt Crocker, Joel Houston, Salomon Ligthelm

This soundtrack comes just ahead of Twentieth Century Fox’s April 17 release of the feature film Breakthrough. The movie, starring Chrissy Metz, Josh Lucas, Topher Grace, Mike Colter Marcel Ruiz, Sam Trammell, and Dennis Haysbert, is based on the inspirational true story of one mother’s unfaltering love and faith in the face of impossible odds. View the official trailer HERE.

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

Where are you from? Friedswood, Texas, USA

When did you join The Official Carrie Underwood Fan Club? December 2017

What are the top 3 songs you are hoping to hear on The Cry Pretty Tour 360? Spinning Bottles, Kingdom, and Love Wins

Tell us your favorite Carrie Underwood memory: My favorite Carrie Underwood memory was one that changed my life and every time I think about it I smile. I had never seen Carrie Underwood live but had wanted to since the first time I saw her on American Idol. I saw on Twitter that she was going to be at the Grand Ole Opry in June 2018. I begged my dad to let me go and he bought us tickets. The day that she was going to be performing, we did a backstage tour. I was wearing a CU Fan Club shirt and a CU baseball hat. The security guard looked at me and told me that she had to check in with him before she could go backstage. He then asked me if there was anything that I wanted him to tell her for me. I got so excited and asked him if he would tell her that I was one of her biggest fans, if not the biggest and that her music changed my life. He asked which show I would be at that night and I told him the second one. He then told me that he would take care of it and for me to be ready to be on cloud nine that night and that it was going to be the best night of my life. Well, I had no idea how right he was. That night, just before she came out, the announcer said “Up next we have someone very special and there is a huge fan in the audience that I would like to help me welcome the next artist, so Victoria McNeil, would you help me welcome Carrie Underwood?!” I got so excited and jumped up and started screaming. Then as Carrie Underwood came walking out, she said “Hi Victoria, thank you for your support!” Then a usher came up to me and told me that the security guard had told him to come find me and that he wanted me to sit front and center on the front row while Carrie Underwood was singing so that I could have the best experience possible and remember that night for the rest of my life. I then got to see her two more times within the next 3 days. I went from not seeing her live at all to seeing her at the Grand Ole Opry, CMT Awards and CMA Music Festival all within four days.

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

What is the best part about being a Carrie Underwood fan? There are many things that make being a Carrie Underwood fan amazing and the best. However, I think that the best thing about being a Carrie Underwood fan is getting encouraged by her and getting to share how amazing she is with other people.

What is your favorite song from the Cry Pretty album? Spinning Bottles or Love Wins

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Multi-platinum superstar and seven-time GRAMMY® Award winner Carrie Underwood has announced a major UK arena tour for Summer 2019, The Cry Pretty Tour UK. Underwood made the announcement this morning in a personal video to her fans:

https://www.instagram.com/p/BulIL3hlQ-P/

She will be joined on the UK tour by special guests, The Shires, the UK’s best-selling country act of all time.

Underwood has made numerous visits to the UK over the course of her career. She helped establish UK and Ireland’s Country To Country Festival, the biggest celebration of country music outside North America, with headline performances during its first year in 2013, and again during its fourth year in 2016, which included a sold-out show at London’s O2 Arena. Underwood’s first UK concert performance included a sold-out night at London’s prestigious Royal Albert Hall in 2012.

Tickets for the UK shows will go on sale Thursday, March 7 via www.gigsandtours.com and www.ticketmaster.co.uk. As she has done for her North American shows, Underwood has arranged for a donation from each ticket sold for The Cry Pretty Tour UK 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.

Also beginning Thursday, March 7, a limited number of exclusive VIP Packages will be available at www.sjm-vip.com which include an amazing selection of tickets, Meet & Greet, autographed memorabilia, and custom merchandise.

The biggest selling UK country act of all time, The Shires will join Underwood on her UK arena tour this Summer. The duo released their debut album Brave in March 2015, which became the first British country album ever to enter the UK top ten. Ben Earle and Crissie Rhodes have been going from strength-to-strength ever since, and released their highly anticipated third album Accidentally on Purpose earlier last year.

THE CRY PRETTY TOUR UK:
Friday, June 28 / Birmingham, England – Birmingham Resorts World Arena
Sunday, June 30 / Cardiff, Wales – Cardiff Motorpoint Arena
Tuesday, July 2 / Glasgow, Scotland – The SSE Hydro
Wednesday, July 3 / Manchester, England – Manchester Arena
Thursday, July 4 / London, England – Wembley The SSE Arena

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

Where are you from? Grand Rapids, MI, USA

When did you join The Official Carrie Underwood Fan Club? August 2014

What are the top 3 songs you are hoping to hear on The Cry Pretty Tour 360? Southbound, Kingdom, Love Wins (How dare you make me only pick 3!)

Tell us your favorite Carrie Underwood memory: On The Storyteller Tour, I was fortunate enough to win a meet and greet pass. My other favorite moment was on that same tour when she sang Heartbeat – just the stage and lights and colors were EVERYTHING and AMAZING!

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

What is the best part about being a Carrie Underwood fan? How car(rie)ing she is and how updated she keeps her fans. Also, the fact that she has a fan club party every year is just amazing. I haven’t been able to attend but just the fact that she does that makes me sooooo happy.

What is your favorite song from the Cry Pretty album? Love Wins

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