Tuesday, December 31, 2013

Artists of the Year and American Idol Superstar - Carrie Underwood

The Supreme Miss American Idol and Season 4 winner, Carrie Underwood, started out 2013 winning the Grammy for Best Country Solo Performance for Blown Away. This became her 6th career Grammy Award.

Carrie continued to have hits from her Blown Away album with Two Black Cadillacs and See You Again both topping the Billboard Country Songs charts as well as the CMT Hot 20 Video Countdown.

At the CMT Awards she won the top award of the night for the second year in a row. Last year she won the CMT Video of the Year for Good Girl and this year she won the CMT Video of the Year again for Blown Away.

Carrie became the voice of Sunday Night Football by taking over the NFL theme song "Waiting All Day for Sunday Night".

For the 6th year in a row Carrie hosted the CMA Awards with Brad Paisley and she delivered the best performance of the night. She performed a medley of her hits Good Girl, Blown Away, Two Black Cadillacs and See You Again.

In December she topped off an amazing year with the record breaking LIVE television event The Sound of Music. She took on the lead role of Maria and performed the classic songs My Favorite Things and Do Re Mi perfectly. The show earned the highest rating for 18-49, non-sports Thursday ratings average since the finale of ‘ER,’ which aired in 2009. The musical also earned NBC the most viewers since 2004′s season finale of ‘Frasier.’

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