Carrie Underwood has followed her CMA award and her Billboard awards with two Grammy awards. She was named the year’s best new artist and was recognized for having the best female country vocal performance. In addition, her song “Jesus, Take The Wheel,” won for best country song, although the award goes to its writers, not …
Carrie Underwood continues her rise to actual idol, not just television show winner. Besides winning five Billboard awards and a CMA award for best female vocalist last year, her album did extremely well. Some Hearts “was the third-biggest seller in the calendar year of 2006, according to Nielsen SoundScan,” USA TODAY’s Idol Chatter reports. In …
Carrie Underwood has followed her CMA win with five Billboard music awards. Carrie won both the album of the year award and the country album of the year award; similarly, she was named the best new country artist, and the best female country artist. She was also named the “Female Billboard 200 album artist of …
American Idol 4 winner Carrie Underwood was named the Female Vocalist of the Year last night at the Country Music Awards. Accepting the award, she said she’d watched the ceremony on TV two years ago, and receiving the award made last night “the best night of my life.” But the part where Carrie Underwood cries …
American Idol may be increasing in popularity on television, but sales of records from the show’s past contestants are declining. USA TODAY looks at recent sales, and finds that “enthusiasm for alumni seems to be waning.” For example, second-season winner Ruben Studdard’s new album “sold 71,000 copies last week to enter Billboard at No. 8. …
Bo Bice’s ongoing intestinal problems led to emergency surgery yesterday, from which he is now recovering. Last year, he left the Idols tour after having emergency surgery, and then had a follow-up procedure in December. Bo’s publicist, Roger Widynowski, told People, “Bo is still in the hospital, and he’s stable. He had tests in the …
With a Village Voice reporter watching, American Idol 4‘s Constantine Maroulis “checked his MySpace page for new e-mails on his laptop,” “sprayed a coat of Axe deodorant all over his torso” after “fluffing the hairs on his chest a bit with the blow-dryer,” “complained that unauthorized shots of him taken by a Broadway photographer were …