{"id":1784,"date":"2018-09-25T13:20:55","date_gmt":"2018-09-25T12:20:55","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/cmni.co.uk\/?p=1784"},"modified":"2018-09-25T13:20:55","modified_gmt":"2018-09-25T12:20:55","slug":"carrie-underwoods-cry-pretty-album-makes-country-music-history","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/cmni.co.uk\/index.php\/2018\/09\/25\/carrie-underwoods-cry-pretty-album-makes-country-music-history\/","title":{"rendered":"Carrie Underwood&#8217;s &#8216;Cry Pretty&#8217; album makes Country Music history"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong>Carrie<\/strong>\u00a0<strong>Underwood<\/strong>\u2018s new album,\u00a0<em>Cry Pretty<\/em>, has debuted at the top of\u00a0 Billboard\u2019s Top\u00a0200 Album chart yesterday.\u00a0 The collection\u00a0is the biggest all-genre debut by a female in 2018, topping Cardi B\u2019s\u00a0<em>Invasion of Privacy<\/em>(April 6, 2018). The album debuted at No. 1 on both the Billboard 200 and Top Country Album Charts with 265,654 equivalent album units, making Underwood the only woman in history to land\u00a0four country albums at the top of the all-genre Billboard 200 chart. The critically-acclaimed album is the best-selling Country album debut of 2018, as well as the biggest Country album debut since August 7, 2015 (Luke Bryan\u2019s\u00a0<em>Kill The Lights<\/em>) and the biggest female Country album debut since October 22, 2012 (Taylor Swift\u2019s 2012\u00a0<em>Red<\/em>).<\/p>\n<p><!--more--><\/p>\n<p><em>Cry Pretty<\/em>\u2019s debut week also marks the most first week streams by any female in Country music.\u00a0This is Underwood\u2019s seventh consecutive album to debut at No. 1 on the Top Country Albums chart, representing all of her first seven albums including her\u00a0<em>Greatest Hits: Decade #1<\/em>.<\/p>\n<p><em>NPR<\/em>\u00a0declares that\u00a0<em>Cry Pretty<\/em>\u00a0\u201cpushes her creative boundaries and leans into modern R&amp;B, while retaining the Oklahoma singer-songwriter\u2019s country roots\u201d and \u201cUnderwood\u2019s voice owns pretty much anything it touches.\u201d<\/p>\n<p><em>Rolling Stone<\/em>\u00a0lauds Underwood as \u201cArena country\u2019s mightiest voice, as\u00a0<em>Cry Pretty<\/em>\u00a0reaffirms.\u201d<\/p>\n<p><em>Entertainment Weekly<\/em>\u00a0has called the album \u201cHer most emotionally accessible work to date.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Underwood was recently featured in a profile on CBS Sunday Morning, as well as performances on The\u00a0Tonight Show Starring Jimmy Fallon\u00a0and\u00a0The Ellen Show. She received her star on the Hollywood Walk of Fame on Sept. 20 and performed at the iHeart Radio Music Festival in Las Vegas. Nominated as Favorite Female Artist \u2013 Country, Underwood will perform at the 2018 American Music Awards on Oct. 9 following her promotional tour in Australia, which will include an appearance at the iconic Deni Ute Muster festival. Fans will get the chance to watch multiple performances from Carrie that night as she is also set to appear on Jimmy Kimmel Live! at 11:35pm ET \/ 10:35 CT on ABC immediately following the 2018 American Music Awards live broadcast.<\/p>\n<p><em>Cry Pretty<\/em>\u00a0is Underwood\u2019s first release on Capitol Records Nashville and her first time co-producing alongside David Garcia.\u00a0 She co-wrote nine of the songs on the album including her current single, \u201cLove Wins,\u201d with David Garcia and Brett James.\u00a0 She recently released the official music video for \u201cLove Wins,\u201d which was directed by Shane Drake. View\u00a0HERE.<\/p>\n<p>Underwood returns this fall for her sixth season as the voice of primetime television\u2019s #1 program,\u00a0Sunday Night Football. This November, she and Brad Paisley will co-host the CMA Awards for the 11th consecutive year.<\/p>\n<p>In spring 2019, Underwood will launch a new arena tour,\u00a0<em>The Cry Pretty<\/em><em>Tour 360<\/em>. Sponsored by CALIA, the new tour will kick off on May 1 in Greensboro, NC, and will play 55 arenas across the U.S. and Canada and be promoted by AEG Presents.\u00a0 She will be joined on tour by special guests Maddie &amp; Tae and Runaway June.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Carrie\u00a0Underwood\u2018s new album,\u00a0Cry Pretty, has debuted at the top of\u00a0 Billboard\u2019s Top\u00a0200 Album chart yesterday.\u00a0 The collection\u00a0is the biggest all-genre debut by a female in 2018, topping Cardi B\u2019s\u00a0Invasion of Privacy(April 6, 2018). The album debuted at No. 1 on both the Billboard 200 and Top Country Album Charts with 265,654 equivalent album units, making [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":1785,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"sfsi_plus_gutenberg_text_before_share":"","sfsi_plus_gutenberg_show_text_before_share":"","sfsi_plus_gutenberg_icon_type":"","sfsi_plus_gutenberg_icon_alignemt":"","sfsi_plus_gutenburg_max_per_row":""},"categories":[3],"tags":[292,158,293,39,15,291,55],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/cmni.co.uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/09\/CU_CP_AlbumCvr_5x5_HIres_WEB.jpg","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/cmni.co.uk\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1784"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/cmni.co.uk\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/cmni.co.uk\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cmni.co.uk\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cmni.co.uk\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1784"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/cmni.co.uk\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1784\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1786,"href":"https:\/\/cmni.co.uk\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1784\/revisions\/1786"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cmni.co.uk\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/1785"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/cmni.co.uk\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1784"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cmni.co.uk\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1784"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cmni.co.uk\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1784"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}