Country music artist Carrie Marie Underwood was born in the United States on March 10, 1983. After winning the fourth season of American Idol in 2005, she gained notoriety. She became the first solo country singer in the 2000s to have a number-one hit on the Hot 100 thanks to her track “Inside Your Heaven,” which also made her the first country artist to debut at the top of the Billboard Hot 100 chart. The crossover songs “Jesus, Take the Wheel” and “Before He Cheats” helped her debut album, Some Hearts (2005), gain momentum and become the best-selling solo female debut album in the annals of country music. For the album, she took home three Grammy Awards, including Best New Artist. The following studio album, Carnival Ride (2007), earned two Grammy Awards and had one of the largest opening weekends of all time for a female artist. The single “Cowboy Casanova,” which had one of the highest single-week upward jumps on the Hot 100, was released before her third studio album, Play On (2009).
Globally, 70 million records by Underwood have been sold. She holds the record for the number-one entries on the Billboard Country Airplay chart and is the female artist with the seventh-highest certification among all female artists on the RIAA’s Top Artists (Digital Singles) ranking. She has won eight Grammy Awards, twelve Billboard Music Awards, seventeen American Music Awards, five Guinness World Records, and admission to the Grand Ole Opry and the Hollywood Walk of Fame, among other honors. She was chosen by Billboard as the best female country performer of the 2000s and 2010s, and Some Hearts was named the best country album of the decade.
