How Great Thou Art features standard gospel classics including “I’ll Fly Away,” “Give Me Jesus,” “Old Rugged Cross,” and “How Great Thou Art,” among others. Many country artists grew up singing in church as their first experience with music, so being a part of this project is a natural fit for many of today’s country music stars.

“I grew up singing gospel tunes right out of the hymnal at our church,” explains Sara Evans. “Historically, gospel music has played a large part in the Grand Ole Opry and I am very honored to be a part of this album.”

Track Listing:
1. I’ll Fly Away – Charlie Daniels Band/Mac Powell
2. Blessed Assurance – Alan Jackson
3. Precious Memories – Patty Loveless
4. Precious Lord, Take My Hand – Ronnie Milsap
5. Family Bible – Ricky Skaggs/The Whites
6. Just A Closer Walk With Thee – Sara Evans
7. The Old Rugged Cross – Brad Paisley
8. Wayfaring Stranger – Trace Adkins
9. Where No One Stands Alone – Loretta Lynn
10. Give Me Jesus – Vince Gill
11. A House Of Gold – Dierks Bentley
12. How Great Thou Art – Carrie Underwood

Hi Official Carrie Underwood Fan Club Members!

Thank you all so much for your support this past year. We hope you’ve enjoyed being a key part of the Carrie Underwood Official Fan Club community.

Renewals will be made at some point today and remember everyone who joined during the first few weeks last year will have a 12 day grace period to renew their accounts before they expire. This means memberships will not expire until Wednesday, January 2nd.

Please note once membership renewals have launched, you will be able to renew your account at anytime.

Happy Holidays on behalf of Carrie and the The Official Fan Club Team! We look forward to seeing you all in Year 2 on the Official Carrie Underwood Fan Club.

-The Official Carrie Underwood Fan Club Team.

Join us as we celebrate Year 2 on The Official Carrie Underwood Fan Club.

What’s new this year?

-Members Only Mini Sites Branded With The your-name.carrieunderwood.fm address

-More Personal Blogs From Carrie

-New Exclusive Content

-Opportunities to Buy Pre-Sale Tickets First and Attend Meet and Greets *

*-And more surprises added throughout the year!

For only 24.99 + s/h you will receive:

-1 – Year Membership to the Official Fan Club

-Exclusive Fan Club T-Shirt

• Welcome Letter from Carrie

-Personal Notebook Journal

-Membership Card

-Access to Exclusive Content

-Members Only Access to Carrie’s Page

-Personalized @CarrieUnderwood.fm Web Mail Address

-Access to Private Message Boards, Blogs and Official CarrieUnderwood.fm Network
-Pre-Sale Ticketing Opportunities *

-A Chance to Meet and Greet Carrie herself! **

-And Much More Along The Way!*

• ALL PRE-SALE TICKET PURCHASES SUBJECT TO AVAILABILITY ON A FIRST COME, FIRST SERVE BASIS FOR SELECT PERFORMANCES ONLY. ALL SHOWS ARE SUBJECT TO CANCELLATION OR POSTPONEMENT WITHOUT NOTICE. PLEASE CONSULT WITH THE RELEVANT VENUE FOR SEATING INFORMATION PRIOR TO PURCHASE AND ANY CHANGES TO THE SHOW SCHEDULE.

** MEET AND GREETS ARE SUBJECT TO AVAILABILITY AND TICKETS TO SHOWS ARE NOT INCLUDED IN THE PACKAGE.

Tune in to see which one of Carrie’s Videos made the ??GAC’s Top 50 Videos of 2007?? list.

This year’s countdown shows will air on the following days:

Thursday, December 27th at 9 PM/ET

Friday, December 28th at 9 PM/ET

Saturday, December 29th at 9 PM/ET

Sunday, December 30th at 9 PM/ET

Monday, December 31st at 9 PM/ET

Monday, January 1st – ALL DAY beginning at 10 AM/ET

Happy viewing!

Underwood Earns Multiple Year-End Accolades and Is the Billboard 200 Top-Selling Female Artist of 2007 Carrie’s 6x-Platinum Debut, Some Hearts, Makes History as Billboard’s Top Country Album for the Second Year

Nashville, TN – She is the preeminent female country artist of the past two years, and now, reigning ACM Top Female Vocalist, double GRAMMY winner, and back-to-back CMA Female Vocalist of the Year Carrie Underwood sees her 19 Recordings/Arista Records/Arista Nashville album, Carnival Ride, simultaneously RIAA-certified Gold, Platinum, and Double Platinum for sales of two million units.

Released on October 23, Carnival Ride has already launched the multi-week #1 smash, “So Small,” Underwood’s fifth consecutive country chart-topper after four #1 singles from her 6x-Platinum debut blockbuster, Some Hearts. Carrie’s continued success is celebrated in the year-end issue of Billboard, where she is #1 across multiple categories including Top Country Artist and Top Country Artist – Female (both based on sales and airplay), and #1 among Top Country Album Artists (based on sales). Outside the country categories, Carrie’s phenomenal 2007 is clear to see in the all-genre Billboard 200 Artist Recap, which ranks the pride of Checotah, Oklahoma, as the #1 best-selling female artist of the 2007 chart year.

Billboard also shows Carrie’s juggernaut Some Hearts as the Top Country Album for the second consecutive year, making Carrie the first female artist in Billboard history to earn back-to-back honors for Top Country Album. Only one other artist – Charlie Rich, in ’73 and ’74, with his landmark Behind Closed Doors – has ever accomplished this feat.

Based on cumulative SoundScan sales now in excess of 6.1 million copies, Some Hearts this year became the best-selling female country debut in history. No album – in any genre – to release since Some Hearts (on November 15, 2005) has surpassed the disc’s powerhouse sales to date.

On the airplay front, the 2007 Year in Music recap from R&R reflects the strength of Carrie’s support at country radio, where she is the year’s #1 female artist.

Carrie also scored outside of country radio, where “Before He Cheats” (a five-week #1 country single) recently spent a mammoth 64 weeks on the Billboard Hot 100, earning the longest chart run of any Hot 100 single this decade.

Fans can soon be listening for her new single, “All-American Girl,” as well as toasting New Year’s Eve with Carrie when she performs live in New York City’s Times Square on Dick Clark’s New Year’s Rockin’ Eve 2008 on ABC.

Carrie celebrated the success of “So Small” with both BMI and ASCAP yesterday.

Pictured (L-R): Luke Laird, Carrie, Hillary Lindsey and ASCAP Sr. VP Connie Bradley.

Pictured (L-R): Chris Oglesby (OWM), Luke Laird, Hillary Lindsey, Carrie, Shelby Kennedy (BMI), Jody Williams (BMI), Mark Bright, Joe Galante and Tammy Genovese.

LOS ANGELES, CA, DECEMBER 11, 2007 – Dick Clark’s New Year’s Rockin’ Eve 2008 will rock in the New Year with special live performances from Times Square by Carrie Underwood, Miley Cyrus and the Jonas Brothers.

Celebrating the New Year with good friends and great music is a tradition celebrated by all generations. Dick Clark’s New Year’s Rockin’ Eve 2008 will give American’s an opportunity to do just that by featuring performances by some of the biggest names in music.

Country Music’s hottest performer Carrie Underwood, TV & recording star Miley Cyrus and teen sensations the Jonas Brothers will perform live in front of hundreds of thousands of people and millions more viewers at home from stages in Times Square. Fergie, Akon, Natasha Bedingfield, Sean Kingston, OneRepublic, Plain White T’s, Taylor Swift and will.i.am will celebrate and perform during the Hollywood Party segments of the broadcast.

The special will be broadcast on ABC and be hosted by Dick Clark and Ryan Seacrest from New York and Fergie from Hollywood. It will kick off with Dick Clark’s Primetime New Year’s Rockin’ Eve 2008 from 10-11 p.m. ET/PT. After taking a break from 11 to 11:30 p.m. for local news, the specials will resume at 11:35 p.m. for reports on the final minutes of the year 2007, the traditional Times Square countdown to midnight and more special musical performances. Marysol Castro, Good Morning America Weekend weather and features correspondent, will report from Times Square and Dancing with the Stars judge Carrie Ann Inaba, will make an appearance at the Hollywood Party.