Carrie Underwood

By Lily McDonough

Carrie Underwood is very successful and has achieved many things. Carrie Underwood started her career by winning American Idol in 2005. While she was on American Idol, Carrie was going to college for broadcasting and journalism. She went to Northeastern State University, and she traveled 400 miles from St. Louis to get to American Idol. Carrie got college credit for being on American Idol and graduated in 2006. The year she won American Idol, she released her first album, “Some Hearts,” which included: Jesus, Take the Wheel, Before He Cheats and Inside Your Heaven.

Carrie’s song, Inside Your Heaven, was her very first single released. It was the longest running single in Canada in June, 2005. Her song Before He Cheats became multi-platinum with 4 million copies sold in December of 2013. After the release of her album, “Carnival Ride,” she became the top touring female artist in February of 2008 with 1.2 million fans across the US. Carrie had 30 singles, and her first 5 albums were #1 or #2 on the Billboard 200. She has sold 65 million albums globally and 16.3 million albums in the US. In all, she has 6 albums and 1 new album which was just released on September 14th, 2018.