Carrie Underwood Spends Fifth Consecutive Week at No.1 with Blown Away

Posted by Megan Hagedorn on 06/08/2012
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Carrie Underwood reigns atop Billboard’s Top Country Albums chart for a fifth consecutive week with her new album, Blown Away, even as today’s album news closely follows word this week that Carrie has earned her 15th No. 1 single with “Good Girl,” the debut single from Blown Away. Since achieving her first No. 1 single in 2006 with “Jesus, Take The Wheel” Carrie has spent more weeks in the No. 1 spot on the country airplay charts than any other female artist.
 
“Good Girl,” which has sold over 980,000 digital copies so far, was written by Carrie, Chris DeStefano and Ashley Gorley, who co-wrote two of Underwood’s No. 1 hits, “Don’t Forget to Remember Me” and “All-American Girl.”
 
The video for “Good Girl” is currently No. 1 on both CMT and GAC and earned Underwood “Video of the Year” at the 2012 CMT Music Awards.
 
Carrie was the most nominated artist at the 2012 CMT Music Awards, at five nominations, with additional nods including “Video of the Year” and “Collaborative Video of the Year” (both for “Remind Me” with Brad Paisley), as well as “CMT Performance of the Year” for “Just a Dream/Dream On” with Steven Tyler, from CMT’s Crossroads.
 

Carrie is also nominated for “Choice Female Country Artist” at this year’s Teen Choice Awards, airing Sunday, July 22 at 8pm ET on FOX. Fans ages 13-19 can vote once each day per category for their favorite Teen Choice 2012 nominees at www.teenchoiceawards.com.