Artists of the Year - American Idol Superstar - Carrie Underwood

Carrie Underwood

Since becoming the Supreme Miss American Idol, Season 4 winner, Carrie Underwood has set the standard  for crossing over into the music industry mainstream. Winning the Grammy for Best New Artist was just the beginning. Her collection of awards amassed since 2005 is almost too high to count and her impressive album sales continues to increase.

In 2012 she released her 4th album, Blown Away, and it spent its first two weeks in the #1 position on the Billboard Top 200 Albums chart. The first single, Good Girl, is a high energy fusion of pop/rock and country that showcases the fact that she is still the best vocalist in the game right now.

The video for Good Girl became an immediate hit. In the video Carrie looks fabulous showing off a variety of high fashion, glamorous looks as she struts in her "goodbye shoes". On the CMT Top 20 Video Countdown, Good Girl leaped to #1 and it stayed there for a record breaking 14 weeks! At the CMT Video Music Awards, Good Girl ended up winning the Buckle for Video of the Year.

The second single from Blown Away was the title track. The video is a cinematic masterpiece utilizing outstanding special effects to convey the tragic story in the lyrics with a reference to the most famous cyclone  in the Wizard of Oz. Blown Away repeated the success of Good Girl and became another #1.

At the American Music Awards, Blown Away won the award for Favorite Country Album. With this win, Carrie has now won the American Music Award for Favorite Country Album for all four of her albums!

At the American Country Awards this year, for the third year in a row, Carrie has won the award for Favorite Female Artist. She now has a three year total of 11 American Country Awards - more than any other artist.

Carrie's Blown Away Tour has been selling out all over the country and she is delivering an amazing night of her hits. All of this success has lead to CMT including Carrie as one of the 2012 Artists of the Year. At the Grammy Awards every year since her debut, Carrie has been nominated for Best Country Vocal Performance and this year was no exception.

2012 has been a great year for American Idol Superstar - Carrie Underwood!!!