Carrie to Launch New CD in NYC

10/10/2007 Stephen L. Betts   Carrie Underwood is set to celebrate the release of her highly-anticipated album, Carnival Ride, with an Oct. 23 release-date performance on Good Morning America, as part of their 2007 Fall Concert Series. The Big Apple setting is fitting, since in November 2005, Carrie launched her record-setting, six-million-selling album debut, Some Hearts, with a street-date performance on The 39th Annual CMA Awards, which aired live from New York. With three nominations for this year’s CMA Awards (including Female Vocalist of the Year, as well as Single of the Year and Music Video of the Year for “Before He Cheats”), Carrie was recently announced as a performer on the 2007 telecast, which will air live Nov. 7 on ABC-TV. Some Hearts remains the best-selling country album of 2007, with SoundScan sales of nearly 1.3 million copies this year alone.  An ACM-honored Album of the Year, Some Hearts notched four consecutive No. 1 country singles, and spent a remarkable 27 weeks at No. 1 on Billboard’s Top Country Albums chart, holding that position across multiple weeks in 2005, 2006, and 2007.