Carrie Underwood's Some Hearts CD was the top country album of 2007, according to Billboard, and her follow-up, Carnival Ride looks as if it could follow suit.
Carrie's brand new single from Carnival Ride, "All-American Girl," was co-written by Carrie herself along with Nashville songwriters Kelley Lovelace and Ashley Gorley. As Carrie tells Dial-Global, each writer put some of their own history into the song.
"I think everybody kind of put their own viewpoints on it, and for me it was being the last of three girls," she says. "I was my parents' last-ditch effort at having a boy — not that there's anything wrong with having girls — but I know that they would probably have liked to have switched things up a little bit and had a little boy."
Carrie is keeping busy after Christmas, as she is slated to perform live in New York's Times Square on New Year's Eve as part of Dick Clark's New Year's Rockin' Eve 2008. Her tour with Keith Urban begins January 31 in Connecticut.