Eight-time Grammy Award-winner Carrie Underwood becomes the Highest Selling Female Country Artist
“MCA and the Recording Industry Association of America announce that Multi-Platinum, 8-time GRAMMY Award winner Carrie Underwood has become the highest RIAA Certified female country artist of all time with over 95 million units (22.5 million albums and 72.5 million singles) in the US alone across solo titles and collaborations…”
Carrie spoke on this achievement to Billboard, “Accomplishments like this are more than I would have ever dared to dream of when I was starting out, I owe everything to the fans, who have literally voted for me from the beginning of my career and have showed up and given me so much love for over 20 years. I feel truly blessed.”
Carrie Underwood’s career took off after she won the fourth season of American Idol in 2005. Her debut single, “Inside Your Heaven,” premiered at No. 1 on the Billboard Hot 100 chart, making her the first country artist to achieve that milestone. The song appeared on her debut album, Some Hearts, which went on to become the best-selling debut album of all time by a solo female country artist.
Since then Carrie has become one of the best-selling music artists in history!
