Some Hearts

Carrie Underwood无疑是继Kelly Clarkson之后，“美国偶像大赛”培养出来的最受人瞩目的歌手。在今年5月份获得第四届“美国偶像大赛”冠军之后，Carrie Underwood成功与Arista公司签约，筹划多日的首张个人专辑《Some Hearts》也终于在11月15日推出。专辑在发行首周以31万5千张的佳绩名列本周Billboard专辑榜次席，仅次于老辣的Madonna的新作《Confessions on a Dance Floor》。 作为最新一届美国偶像冠军，今年22岁的Carrie Underwood难免被拿来跟“身世”相同的“师姐”Kelly Clarkson相比较。Clarkson至今已拥有10首排在排行榜前十的单曲，而两张专辑都在专辑榜的前五名中，其中首张个人专辑《Thankful》还在2003年摘得Billboard专辑榜桂冠。跟“师姐”相比，小一岁的Carrie Underwood才刚踏上了自己的星路历程。 跟自己的偶像女歌手马蒂纳·麦克布莱德（Martina McBride）一样，Carrie Underwood也有着高亢有力的好嗓子，六月份发行的单曲《Inside Your Heaven》便一举获得Billboard单曲榜的冠军。Carrie Underwood在参加今年的美国偶像比赛的时候共演唱过Martina McBride，Rascal Flatts，菲斯·希尔（Faith Hill）和南方小鸡（the Dixie Chicks）等艺人的歌曲，而《Some Hearts》专辑中歌曲的风格跟她在比赛中所演唱的大致相同，是她最为喜爱和擅长的流行乡村音乐。另外，Carrie Underwood参与创作了专辑中的歌曲《I Ain't in Checotah Anymore》和《Before He Cheats》。本专辑中的主打单曲《Jesus Take the Wheel》在上榜两周之后，目前已近进入Billboard单曲榜前25位。Carrie Underwood在美国乡村音乐协会奖颁奖礼上演唱的正是这首歌曲。 唱功上佳的新“美国偶像”的这张个人首张专辑可以说是继Kelly Clarkson首张个人专辑之后，最好的一张“美国偶像”大赛歌手发行的专辑了。但不知道初出茅庐的Carrie Underwood是否能够拥有前辈的好运气。 Some Hearts is the debut album from country singer Carrie Underwood, released in the United States on November 15, 2005 by Arista Nashville. The album contains the number one singles "Jesus, Take the Wheel", "Don't Forget to Remember Me", "Wasted", and "Before He Cheats". Bolstered by the success of its singles, Some Hearts became the best-selling album of 2006 in all genres in the United States. The album was also the best-selling country album in the United States of both 2006 and 2007, making Underwood the first female artist in Billboard history to earn back-to-back honors for Top Country Album. Additionally, it was the best-selling female country album of 2005, 2006 and 2007. Some Hearts has since been certified seven times Platinum by the RIAA, and is the fastest-selling debut country album in the history of the SoundScan era, the best-selling solo female debut album in country music history, the best-selling Country album of the last 10 years, and the best-selling album by an American Idol alumni in the U.S. With 7,322,000 copies sold in the United States, Some Hearts was listed as one of the 100 Best Selling Albums of All Time by the RIAA in 2009. In December 2007, Forbes reported that Some Hearts had sold over 8 million copies worldwide, at the time it had sold over six million copies in the United States alone. Having now sold over seven million units in the U.S., Some Hearts has sold over 9 million copies worldwide. In December 2009, Billboard announced that the album was the biggest-selling country album of the decade, as well as the fourteenth biggest-selling album of any genre. The album and its songs were well received by the critics. Some Hearts won Album of the Year at the 2007 Academy of Country Music Awards, while "Jesus, Take the Wheel" and "Before He Cheats" both won Single of the Year at the 2006 Academy of Country Music Awards and 2007 Country Music Association Awards, respectively. At the 49th Grammy Awards, in 2007, Underwood won the Grammy Award for Best New Artist and the Grammy Award for Best Female Country Vocal Performance, for "Jesus, Take the Wheel", which also won Best Country Song for its songwriters, being nominated for Song of the Year as well. The following year, at the 50th Grammy Awards, Underwood won the Grammy for Best Female Country Vocal Performance for "Before He Cheats". The song won Best Country Song for the songwriters as well as being nominated for Song of the Year.