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Fan Club pre-sale tickets available for Summerfest this Wednesday!
DATE: July 2
CITY: Milwaukee, WI
VENUE: Marcus Amphitheater
PRE-SALE: May 27 at 10 AM CDT
Follow the steps below to purchase pre-sale tickets:
- Sign in to your Carrie Underwood Fan Club account or become a member here
- Click “EVENTS”
- To access your password for this pre-sale, click the MORE INFO button next to the Milwaukee, WI date
- Copy the password and click “BUY PRE-SALE TICKETS”
Tickets will go on sale to the public starting Friday, May 29th at 10 AM CDT on Ticketmaster.com.
Carrie to perform at 2015 CMT Awards on June 10th
Last week through an ambitious multiplatform rollout, CMT unveiled nominations for the awards, which includes more than 45 nominated artists/groups. This year, each performer scored multiple nods. Country superstar Carrie Underwood is the frontrunner with five awards nominations, including two for “Video of the Year,” two for “Female Video of the Year” and one for “Collaborative Video of the Year” for her duet with Miranda Lambert. Lady Antebellum and Kenny Chesney followed with an impressive four nominations each. Florida Georgia Line andJason Aldean earned a respective three nominations, while Keith Urban and Luke Bryan both scored two nods. Additional performers, presenters and host will be announced at a later date.
To celebrate the upcoming performances, CMT will be airing nominee videos during morning music hours, while CMT Pure, CMT’s 24-hour music channel, will feature nomination blocks by category throughout the day. In addition, CMT Radio will feature performer interviews on both “CMT After Midnite” and “CMT Radio Live”.
Fans can vote now via CMT.com through June 7 at 11:59 PM ET to determine the winners. The six finalists for Video of the Year will be announced at the beginning of the live show and fans can then vote at CMT.com throughout the live telecast (ET/CT only) to determine the night’s big winner.
For more information as it becomes available, follow @CMT on Twitter and Instagram, use hashtag #CMTawards and like the CMT Music Awards on Facebook.
Congratulations to Carrie on her win at the 2015 Billboard Music Awards!
“Something in the Water,” written by Carrie, Chris DeStefano, and Brett James, was the debut single off her Greatest Hits: Decade #1 album which topped Billboard’s Hot Country Songs Chart for seven weeks as well as Billboard’s Hot Christian Songs chart for 26 weeks. The Platinum-certified song was also ranked #1 on Rolling Stone’s year-end social media readers’ poll of the “10 Best Country Songs of 2014” and won a GRAMMY® for Best Country Solo Performance earlier this year.
See Carrie Underwood’s Live Performance of “Little Toy Guns,” Exclusively on Yahoo
Recently in the spotlight among the amazing women in the annual “World’s Most Beautiful” issue of PEOPLE, Underwood filmed the clip late last year when she was the featured artist in Ram Country on Yahoo Music’s Artist Spotlight series throughout the month of December.
On Wednesday, Underwood’s official music video for “Little Toy Guns” was among her industry-leading five nominations for the fan-voted 2015 CMT Music Awards, where “Little Toy Guns” and her previous smash video “Something in the Water” are nominated for Female Video of the Year.
Winner of last year’s CMT Music Awards Video of the Year, Underwood is a double nominee in that category, as well, up for “Something in the Water” and “Somethin’ Bad” with Miranda Lambert, the latter video also nominated for Collaborative Video of the Year.
A fan-voted show, voting is underway now at CMT.com and continues until June 8, at 10 AM, ET, to determine the winners and the Video of the Year finalists. Additional voting at CMT.com will determine the winner of Video of the Year during the June 10 live telecast.
Underwood, who on May 10 celebrated the seven-year anniversary of her induction into the Grand Ole Opry, will return to the Opry stage on Tuesday, June 9, as the Opry kicks off its CMA Music Fest Week with two star-packed shows. Visit Opry.com for tickets and additional information.
This week, Underwood’s “Little Toy Guns” vaults into the country radio Top 10 at #9 and #8 respectively on the Billboard and Country Aircheck country airplay charts.
“Little Toy Guns” can be found on Underwood’s 25-track Greatest Hits: Decade #1, available for sale here: http://smarturl.it/cughdecade1.
The 2015 CMT Music Awards will air live from Nashville’s Bridgestone Arena on Wednesday, June 10, at 8 PM, ET/PT, on CMT.
Vote for Carrie in the 2015 CMT Music Awards
NASHVILLE – May 13, 2015 – CMT today announced the nominations for the 2015 “CMT Music Awards,” the loudest night in country music, airing live from Nashville’s Bridgestone Arena on Wednesday, June 10th at 8pm ET / 7pm CT. On the heels of winning last year’s coveted video of the year, country superstar Carrie Underwood is in contention once again leading the pack with five nominations including two for “Video of The Year” (“Something in The Water” and “Somethin’ Bad” with Miranda Lambert), two for “Female Video of the Year” (“Little Toy Guns” and “Something In The Water”), and “Collaborative Video of the Year,” (“Somethin’ Bad” with Miranda Lambert). Close behind are Lady Antebellum and Kenny Chesney, garnering four each. Voting begins now at CMT.com and continues until Monday, June 8th at 10am ET / 9am CT.
CMT turned to a multiplatform rollout for today’s big announcement. The nominees were revealed in a series of phases kicking off at the TODAY show with a performance by Lady Antebellum. The trio debuted their new single “Long Stretch of Love” and announced nominees for the following categories: “Male of the Year,” “Female Video of the Year,” and “Video of the Year”. Nominations continued to rollout on social media, with Luke Bryan and Carrie Underwood, announcing “Group Video of the Year” and “Breakthrough Video of the Year,” respectively, via their social media accounts. Nashville locals got into the action from hot spots around Music City to announce “Duo Video of the Year” and “Collaborative Video of the Year” and “Performance Video of the year,” via CMT’s Facebook, Instagram and Twitter accounts.
Performers, presenters and this year’s host will be announced in the coming weeks.
Tickets for the show will go on sale Saturday, May 16th at 11am CT at all Ticketmaster outlets and the Bridgestone Arena Box Office.
The 2015 Fan Club Party!
There will be food and drink for you to enjoy with your fellow Fan Club members while you watch the 2nd Opry show that will be projected in Studio A just for you! Carrie will also be stopping by to say hello and to take a group picture that we will email to you all after the Party.
Space is very limited, so be sure to RSVP for a chance to attend the Fan Club party by following the instructions on the event page.
Please note that tickets to The Grand Ole Opry shows are not included when you RSVP to the Fan Club Party and must be purchased separately. Additionally, tickets to the 7pm Opry show are not required to attend the Fan Club Party and purchase does not improve your chances of winning an invitation to the party.
TopFan Launches Next Generation Fan Community App for Carrie Underwood
“I always love finding new ways to connect with fans and am excited to be able to do that through my new fan community app,” said Underwood. “TopFan has some really cool ideas to make this a special place for fans, and I am excited to be working with them!”
Carrie’s new mobile application is free to download and users gain immediate access to the many standard features.
TopFan’s technology powers the official fan communities of over 250 sports, entertainment, and music influencers with a collective social reach of one billion fans. TopFan was created to help influencers overcome the challenges of monetizing their brand on traditional social media. By owning and operating their own fan community, influencers take back control of the fan relationship and data, while directing content distribution and brand integration. Using this innovative business model, influencers are able to more efficiently generate revenue through VIP content subscriptions, direct merchandise sales, and experiential advertising.
“We are very excited to have Carrie as the newest influencer using the platform to create her own fan community,” states TopFan founder and CEO, Jeff Kohn. “We look forward to working closely with her team to deliver an amazing fan experience and generate new revenue opportunities.” he adds.
For more information about Carrie Underwood’s fan community, visit www.Top-Fan.com or call 720-449-1155, or to download Carrie’s fan community app, click here.
About Carrie Underwood:
Carrie Underwood emerged from the promise of her 2005 American Idol win to become a true multi-format, multi-media superstar, spanning achievements in music, television, and film, where the seven-time GRAMMY® Award winner has amassed nearly 100 major honors, sold more than 65 million records worldwide, and recorded 20 #1 singles, ten of which she co-wrote. The first female artist to be twice named the Academy of Country Music’s Entertainer of the Year, Underwood was recognized as Pollstar’s top female country touring artist for her headlining tours in 2008, 2010, and 2012. Her four albums, Some Hearts, Carnival Ride, Play On, and Blown Away – each certified multi-Platinum or Platinum, and each an American Music Awards winner as Country Album of the Year – tallied 38 weeks at #1 on Billboard’s Top Country Albums chart with songs that have now been streamed more than 800 million times worldwide. In 2013, she starred as Maria von Trapp in NBC’s three-hour holiday blockbuster, the Emmy®-winning The Sound of Music Live!, whose airings attracted 44 million viewers. A proud member of the Grand Ole Opry since 2008, Underwood recently wrapped her second season as the musical voice of primetime television’s #1 program, Sunday Night Football, and in 2014 returned for the seventh consecutive year as co-host of the CMA Awards. She closed 2014 with the release of her first hits collection, Greatest Hits: Decade #1, whose Platinum-certified single, “Something in the Water,” earned Underwood her seventh GRAMMY Award, honored for Best Country Solo Performance.
About TopFan:
TopFan is the platform for building a next generation of fan communities. TopFan powers the official fan communities of 250+ sports, entertainment, and music influencers, including films and television shows with a collective social reach of 1+ billion fans. Major influencers from around the world use TopFan’s white-label platform to take back control of their brand and relationship with fans by building an ecosystem for fans to interact, and to use as a conduit to directly distribute and sell content & merchandise. Influencers with a social following of 1M or more fans can team up with TopFan at no cost to create their very own next generation fan community, and earn new revenue from fan club subscriptions, brand advertising, and merchandise sales.