Carrie Underwood Celebrates Ten Years of Music with Release of Greatest Hits: Decade #1 on Dec. 9
Carrie Underwood has had an active several months performing at such momentous events as the Global Citizen Festival, the Concert for Valor, and “A (RED) Thank You” concert for World AIDS Day, as well as the ACM Honors, the CMA Awards and more, and fans can now look forward to even more opportunities to see Carrie with the release of her Greatest Hits: Decade #1 due out next Tues., Dec. 9. To heighten excitement for the album and to celebrate an incredible ten years of music, she’ll make numerous television appearances next week, including performances on The Tonight Show Starring Jimmy Fallon on Dec. 8 and the Today Show on Dec. 9 (also visiting Hoda and Kathie Lee in Today’s fourth hour), and guesting on The Talk on Dec. 10 and Rachael Ray on Dec. 12 to also promote her new fitness lifestyle line CALIA by Carrie Underwood.
Carrie will be taking over CMT with music videos, shows and performances with “Carrie Underwood’s Greatest Hits Takeover Weekend” this Saturday and Sunday. She’ll join Cody Alan on CMT’s weekly Hot 20 Countdown as a special guest host for their 100th episode. Hot 20 Countdown airs this Sat., Dec. 6 at 11 a.m. ET/PT and also features an exclusive interview with Carrie and Katie Cook. CMT will re-air the 2012 VH1 Behind the Music: Carrie Underwood program on Sat., Dec. 6 at 2 p.m. ET/PT and VH1 Unplugged: Carrie Underwood on Sun., Dec. 7 at 10:30 a.m. ET/PT as well as CMT Crossroads: Steven Tyler & Carrie Underwood on Sun., Dec. 7 at 10 a.m. ET/PT.
On Dec. 9 iHeartMedia will host an exclusive iHeartRadio Album Release Party at the iHeartRadio Theater in New York City. Syndicated Country radio talent Bobby Bones will host the one-hour takeover that will feature an on-stage interview and a live performance by Carrie, including the record-breaking new single, “Something in the Water.” The event will broadcast that night at 8 p.m. local time across more than 115 iHeartMedia Country radio stations nationwide right here on iHeartMedia’s industry leading digital music service and via a special video feed to Clear Channel’s outdoor billboard in Times Square located at the corner of 47th and Broadway. It will also air the following day, Dec. 10, across the American Forces Network for military members and their families serving overseas this holiday season.
GAC’s Headline Country will feature Carrie in a one-on-one interview with Storme Warren that will first air on Dec. 11 as well as upcoming appearances on GAC’s American Playlist and Top 20 shows.
Carrie will be the featured artist in Ram Country on Yahoo Music’s Artist Spotlight series throughout the month of December. Features include: an in-depth interview, exclusive performances of Carrie’s hits “Something in the Water” and “Blown Away;” a behind-the-scenes look at the making of the music video for “Something in the Water;” and The Hot Country Minute with Ram Country Report host Cornelia Rowe.
She will round out the week by coming home to the Grand Ole Opry for two Opry performances at the Ryman Auditorium on Sat., Dec. 13. In celebration, opry.com will host 10 Memorable Opry Moments from Carrie beginning Mon., Dec. 8. Carrie fans can follow the Opry on Facebook and Twitter or visit opry.com to win prizing including an autographed guitar as well as the new CD, and they can tune in to Carrie’s Opry performances via opry.com, the Opry’s mobile app, 650 AM WSM, and SiriusXM.
On Mon., Dec. 15, Carrie will perform at the inaugural American Country Countdown Awards live from Nashville’s Music City Center, 8 p.m.-10:00 p.m. ET /PT on FOX. And wrapping up the month of December is the repeat airing of the CMA Country Christmas special, featuring a performance with Carrie and Michael W. Smith, on Dec. 20 on ABC.
Carrie is currently climbing the Top 10 with the first smash single from Greatest Hits: Decade #1, the Gold-certified “Something in the Water,” which advances to #9 this week on both the Billboard and Country Aircheck country airplay charts.
“Something in the Water” is available immediately with your digital pre-order of the album here. Pre-order the physical album here.
The track listing for the two-disc Greatest Hits: Decade #1 set is as follows:
Disc 1
1. Something in the Water
2. Little Toy Guns
3. Inside Your Heaven
4. Jesus, Take the Wheel
5. Don’t Forget to Remember Me
6. Before He Cheats
7. Wasted
8. So Small
9. All-American Girl
10. Last Name
11. Just a Dream
12. I Told You So (feat. Randy Travis)
Disc 2
1. Cowboy Casanova
2. Temporary Home
3. Undo It
4. Mama’s Song
5. Remind Me (duet with Brad Paisley)
6. Good Girl
7. Blown Away
8. Two Black Cadillacs
9. See You Again
* 10. How Great Thou Art (with Vince Gill) [Live from ACM Presents: Girls’ Night Out]
* 11. So Small (writing session worktape 1/24/07)
* 12. Last Name (writing session worktape 1/22/07)
* 13. Mama’s Song (writing session worktape 2/5/09)
* (Never-before-released version)
(All studio tracks produced by Mark Bright except “Inside Your Heaven” produced by Desmond Child and “Remind Me” produced by Frank Rogers)