Carrie Underwood

Carrie attends the 17th Annual Elton John AIDS Foundation Oscar party held at the Pacific Design Center on February 22, 2009 in West Hollywood, California.

The Academy of Country Music announced on Thursday that Carrie is nominated for four awards – album of the year (Carnival Ride), video of the year (Just a Dream), top female vocalist and entertainer of the year.

The ACM Awards will air live from Las Vegas’ MGM Grand Garden Arena from 7:00 to 10:00 p.m. on April 5 on CBS. Reba McEntire will host the awards - for the 11th time.

Fan voting to determine the entertainer of the year winner starts March 16 at www.voteacm.com.

Other nominees for album of the year are Taylor Swift’s “Fearless,” Montgomery Gentry’s “Back When I Knew It All,” George Strait’s “Troubadour” and Jamey Johnson’s “That Lonesome Song.”

Carrie Underwood’s smash song “Wasted” has moved one step closer to #1on the Top 20 Countdown. “Wasted” had spent a considerable amount of time at #4 before being bumped to #6 and coming back to #4 and finally, down to #3! “Wasted” has spent 25 weeks on the GAC Top 20 Countdown chart.

Also, GAC’s latest poll “Whose album release are you most excited about this fall?” lists Carrie Underwood’ untitled album as the most exciting release, with a staggering 43.7% of  votes!

Hre are the upcoming video airtimes for Carrie Underwood today on GAC:

 06:15 PM - “Jesus Take The Wheel”

In addition to almost everywhere else, the Canadian Country Music Association is also showing love for Carrie Underwood by nominating her album ‘Some Hearts’ for album of the year. The CCMA Awards are part of Canada’s Country Music Week which is scheduled from September 7-10, 2007 in Regina.

Here are the upcoming video airtimes for Carrie Underwood today on GAC:

11:14 AM - “Before He Cheats”

I’ve been listening to Carrie Underwood new single “So Small”. What I mean by saying she’s ‘going back to country” is that her new single seems to have a more of a traditional country feel than say “Before He Cheats” or “Wasted”. The lyrics, the music, and Carrie’s voice is amazing as usual. I’d like to see this one stay around for a while, then made into a video and go number 1 on the countdowns easily.

It’s been debated whether Carrie can actually top the success of “Some Hearts”. Whil I can’t really say for sure that she can, I do know that”So Small” is a definite indication that she’s trying hard. If she doesn’t sell more copies of her new untitled album than she did with “Some Hearts”, I don’t think she’ll be far off. If you haven’t heard the song yet, you can can find it on YouTube.  Some online stations are playing it, and local country radio is giving it a spin as well.  By the way, Carrie has slid down a notch to #6 on GAC’s Top 20 Countdown with “Wasted”.

 Here are the upcoming video airtimes for Carrie Underwood on GAC for today:

11:29 PM - “Before He Cheats”

 And here are the upcoming video airtimes for Carrie Underwood on GAC for tomorrow:

03:27 AM - “Before He Cheats”

06:36 AM - “Wasted”

06:34 PM - “Wasted”

Former “American Idol” winner and Grammy winning artist Carrie Underwood is set to release a followup album to her smash debut “Some Hearts”. Carrie hit it big with “Some Hearts”, which was certified 6x platinum and is the fastest selling debut album in SoundScan history.”Some Hearts” also produced five number one hits for Carrie, and brought her two Grammy awards, an American Music Award, and eight Billboard Music Awards.

The currently untitled second album was produced by Mark Bright, who not only worked on seven tracks from Carrie’s first album, but has produced albums for Rascal Flatts and Sara Evans. Carrie Underwood co-wrote several cuts for her upcoming album, though no song titles have been named. Carrie Underwood has told MSNBC that she was nervous about following up her debut album, and didn’t know if she would top the success of “Some Hearts”.

The official release date for Carrie’s new album is scheduled for October 23, 2007.