Carrie Receives Quintuple Platinum Plaque

Following her attendance at the Grammy nominees’ reception hosted by the Nashville Chapter of the Recording Academy last evening, Sony BMG Nashville presented Carrie Underwood with an RIAA certified Quintuple Platinum plaque commemorating 5 million sales for her debut 19 Recordings/Arista Nashville disc, Some Hearts.

Pictured here are FRONT (left to right): Ann Edelblute, 19 Management; Butch Waugh, Executive VP, Sony BMG Nashville; Iain Pirie, 19 Management; Carole Underwood (Carrie’s mother); Trish Townsend, stylist; Carrie Underwood; Tom Baldrica, VP, Marketing, SBMG Nashville; Joe Galante, Chairman, SBMG Nashville; Renee Bell, Executive VP, A&R SBMG Nashville; Cindy Mabe, Sr. Director, Marketing/Artist Development, Arista Nashville; BACK (left to right): Wade Hunt, VP, Creative, SBMG Nashville; Skip Bishop, VP, National Promotion, Arista Nashville; Melissa Schleicher, hair and make-up artist; Heather McBee, Sr. Director, Digital Business/New Media, SBMG Nashville; Allen Brown, VP, Media, SBMG Nashville.

Photo credit: Tony Phipps