Carrie Underwood Making a Habit of Being No. 1

Country Music star Carrie Underwood topped the Country airplay charts this week with her latest smash, “Just a Dream.”  The fourth consecutive No.1 from Underwood’s Carnival Ride album, “Just a Dream” marks her ninth single to top a key sales or airplay chart – a major achievement, particularly since Underwood has released only two albums.  “I am just so honored,” she said. “All of the support that I’ve had throughout all my singles is just incredible. And I’m just very appreciative.” To date, the Carnival Ride album has also launched the smash singles “So Small,” “All-American Girl,” and “Last Name,” all co-written by Underwood. “Just a Dream,” written by Steve McEwan, Hillary Lindsey and Gordie Sampson, is a song that Underwood said is “such a beautiful story, and I feel like those are the songs that are really meaningful,” where a lyric can help listeners to “see things in a different way, or it can make them feel better about a situation that they’re in, or they can empathize with it, or they can listen to it, and the song tells exactly what they went through. Those songs, when they get so close, when so many people like them and hear them, and it makes an impact on their life, those are the ones that are really important.” Underwood is the only American Idol winner ever to achieve nine No. 1 hits. In addition to co-hosting The 42nd Annual CMA Awards on Nov. 12, she has been keeping an incredibly busy schedule on the road headlining her Carnival Ride Tour, with 137 shows in total by year's end.