Keeping Up With Carrie

[Franny]

Carrie just performed in front of a large crowd on the Today Show and they were really into her music. She was very relaxed, and one lucky young fan was photographed with Carrie while she patiently waited for it to be focused. I think that she's going to be a popular American Idol and a good example for preteen girls to follow.

[stellium]

She is just coming on now in the Central time zone,  in a few minutes,  and the crowd looks really good for her.   So hot and muggy there.

[Franny]

She is just coming on now in the Central time zone, in a few minutes, and the crowd looks really good for her. So hot and muggy there.

Oh gosh Stellium, are you ever right. The entire N'East is like a steambox. In Conn. they are closing schools down early, and here in W. Mass., it's been like this for more days than I'd like to remember. Central Air is a necessity. Relief should be on its way in a couple of days.

[clayistheway]

Does anyone know how her single is selling?

[stellium]

'INSIDE' STORY: Carrie Underwood collects her first No. 1 in Billboard, joining a long list of chart-topping "American Idol" competitors. Her "Inside Your Heaven" / "Independence Day" (Arista) makes a premature debut at No. 1 on Billboard's Hot Country Singles Sales chart, based solely on street date violations. Those same infringements bring Underwood onto the Singles Sales chart at No. 5 (This chart was formerly known as Hot 100 Singles Sales, but since it also feeds the Pop 100, it was appropriate to change the name).

Underwood is the ninth "Idol" singer to earn a Billboard No. 1 as a solo performer, following Kelly Clarkson, Clay Aiken, Ruben Studdard, Kimberley Locke, Josh Gracin, William Hung, Fantasia and Diana DeGarmo.

CHART BEAT,  June 16, 2005,   Billboard.com

[clays#1fan]

Congrats to Carrie!!      

[stellium]

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 BILLBOARD.COM:
HOT COUNTRY SINGLE SALES
Issue Date: June 25, 2005

This Week, Last Week, Two Weeks Ago, Weeks on Chart, "Title", Artist, Imprint/catalog no./distributing label; Peak Position

1 - - 1
Inside Your Heaven/Independence Day, Carrie Underwood
Arista | 70859 | RMG 1

2 1 1 18 If She Were Any Other Woman, Buddy Jewell
G.Fundis (B.Beavers,K.Lovelace,C.Harrington)
Columbia | 70341 | Sony Music 1

3 - - 1
Dream Big, Ryan Shupe & The Rubber Band
J.Deere (R.Shupe)
Capitol | 72759 3

4 2 2 33 Restless, Alison Krauss + Union Station
A.Krauss + Union Station (R.L.Castleman)
Rounder | 614618 1

5 3 6 31 The Bumper Of My S.U.V., Chely Wright
C.Wright (C.Wright)
Painted Red | 002 1

6 6 4 82 Hurt, Johnny Cash 2
R.Rubin (T.Reznor)
American | 009770* | Lost Highway 1

7 4 9 24 Viva Las Vegas, The Grascals With Special Guest Dolly Parton
Rounder | 614617 3

8 5 5 43 Baby Girl, Sugarland
G.Fundis (K.Bush,K.Hall,J.Nettles,T.Bleser)
Mercury | 003255 | UMGN 2

9 8 7 34 You Don't Lie Here Anymore, Shelly Fairchild
B.Cannon,K.Greenberg (S.Fairchild,C.Mills,S.LeMaire)
Columbia | 71162 | Sony Music 4

10 9 8 56 Wild West Show, Big & Rich
B.Kenny,J.Rich,P.Worley (B.Kenny,J.Rich,B.Daly)
Warner Bros. |

[stellium]

HOT 100 SINGLE SALES
Issue Date: June 25, 2005

This Week, Last Week, Two Weeks Ago, Weeks on Chart, "Title", Artist, Imprint/catalog No./distributing label; peak position.


1 1 2 8 Don't Cha, The Pussycat Dolls
Cee-Lo (T.Callaway,T.Smith)
A&M | Interscope 1

2 2 3 11 In The Kitchen/Trapped In The Closet (Chapter 1 Of 5), R. Kelly
R.Kelly (R.Kelly)
Jive | Zomba 2

3 3 1 9 When You Tell Me That You Love Me, American Idol Finalists Season 4
D.Child (J.Bettis,A.L.Hammond)
RCA | RMG 1

4 5 4 5 So Fresh, Miranda
P.Hall (D.Thomas,M.Carroll)
World Affiliated Entertainment 4

5 - - 1
Inside Your Heaven/Independence Day, Carrie Underwood
Arista | RMG 5

6 4 - 2 Blue Orchid, The White Stripes
J.White (J.White)
Third Man | V2 4

7 7 5 17 Do You Believe In Magic, Aly & A.J.
M.Gerrard (J.B.Sebastian)
Hollywood 2

8 6 16 11 Saturday Night, Aaron Carter
Paradise | Trans Continental 4

9 38 - 2 So Seductive, Tony Yayo Feat. 50 Cent
Punch (M.Bernard,C.J.Jackson, Jr.,M.Harper)
G-Unit | Interscope 9

10 8 8 8 One Word, Kelly Osbourne
L.Perry (L.Perry)
Sanctuary 8

11 12 7 6 Just A Lil Bit, 50 Cent
S.Storch (C.J.Jackson, Jr.,S.Storch)
Shady/Aftermath | Interscope 6

12 9 10 19 Soldier, Destiny's Child Feat. T.I. & Lil Wayne
R.Harrison,B.Knowles (B.Knowles,K.Rowland,M.Williams,R.Harrison,S.Garrett,D.Carter,C.Harris)
Columbia 1

13 - - 1
Lose Control, Missy Elliott
M.Elliott (M.Elliott,C.Harris,G.Isaac III,J.Atkins,R.Davis,C.Hudson)
The Gold Mind | Atlantic 13

14 10 12 18 We Will Become Silhouettes/Be Still My Heart, The Postal Service
The Postal Service (B.Gibbard,J.Tamborello)
Sub Pop 2

15 11 14 29 Gotta Go Solo, Patti LaBelle Feat. Ron Isley
T.Taylor (G.Chambers,T.Taylor,P.Labelle)
Def Soul

[houstonclayfan]

Carries first sales were: CD Sales 129,610 Digital Sales 39,024..TOTAL Sales 168,634..

CLAY is Still the Champ in first week sales

[stellium]

Billboard.com:   Subscriber's CHART ALERT:

"American Idol" winner Carrie Underwood hits No. 1 on the Hot Singles Sales chart, as "Inside Your Heaven/Independence Day" scans an impressive 130,000 units. That moves the single 5-1 on the chart following a premature debut last week because of street-date violations. The same sort of early sales bring "Idol" runner-up Bo Bice onto the chart this week at No. 6. Underwood also manages a No. 4 bow on Hot Digital Songs with "Inside" logging 39,000 paid downloads. With traditional single sales and digital downloads -- along with radio airplay -- feeding The Billboard Hot 100, Underwood is all but a virtual lock for a No. 1 bow on that chart. (The Hot 100 is compiled on Wednesday afternoon, and at press time, the chart had not been completed.)

[stellium]

THE BILLBOARD HOT 100 SINGLES
Top 50 Positions /Issue Date: July 2, 2005
This Week, Last Week, Two weeks ago, Weeks on chart,
"Title", Artist, Imprint/catalog no./promotion label; Peak Position

1 - 1
Inside Your Heaven, Carrie Underwood
Arista | 70859 | RMG 1

2 1 12 We Belong Together, Mariah Carey
Island | IDJMG 1

3 2 14 Hollaback Girl, Gwen Stefani
Interscope | 004435* 1

4 3 11 Don't Phunk With My Heart, The Black Eyed Peas
A&M | 004799* | Interscope 3

5 4 15 Just A Lil Bit, 50 Cent
Shady/Aftermath | 004726* | Interscope 3

6 6 11 Behind These Hazel Eyes, Kelly Clarkson
RCA | RMG 6

7 5 15 Oh, Ciara Featuring Ludacris
Sho'nuff-MusicLine/LaFace | 68177* | Zomba 2

8 7 12 Grind With Me, Pretty Ricky
Atlantic | 93711* 7

9 8 18 Switch, Will Smith
Overbrook | Interscope 7

10 16 5 Get It Poppin', Fat Joe Featuring Nelly
Terror Squad | 93794* | Atlantic 10

11 13 9 Don't Cha, The Pussycat Dolls Featuring Busta Rhymes
A&M | 004685 | Interscope 11

12 9 29 Since U Been Gone, Kelly Clarkson 3
RCA | | RMG 2

13 30 4
Pon de Replay, Rihanna
SRP/Def Jam | 004809* | IDJMG 13

14 17 11 Incomplete, Backstreet Boys
Jive | Zomba 13

15 10 9 Speed Of Sound, Coldplay
Capitol 8

16 11 20 Lonely No More, Rob Thomas
Melisma | | Atlantic 6

17 12 21 Mr. Brightside, The Killers 2
Island | 004170* | IDJMG 10
18 37 8

Best Of You, Foo Fighters
Roswell/RCA | RMG 18

19 22 20 You And Me, Lifehouse
Geffen | 19

20 15 18 Slow Down, Bobby Valentino
DTP/Def

[fantasys about clay]

OKAY I GET IT NOW! I WAS A LITTLE CONFUSED WHEN I GOT CARRIE'S SINGLE AND I SAW ARTISA INSTEAD OF RCA. BUT NOW I GET IT. I JUST DIDN'T KNOW THAT RCA HAD SO MANY SISTER LABLES AS WELL. WOW! AND I KNOW CARRIE IS JUST GONNA DO GREAT UNDER THAT LABEL!

[Pamela]

American Idol winner Carrie Underwood cozies up to her SKECHERS canine co-stars during a photo shoot for the footwear company. Miss Underwood, whose first single debuted at No. 1 on the charts, will appear in SKECHERS advertisements through December 2006. (Photo: Business Wire)

BUSINESS WIRE (photo links are on the right)

[wvclayfan]

Rough cuts for Carrie's Hershey's commercial can be found here:

http://www.carrieconnection.com/

It's the 7th post down!

[ACcountryFan]

RADIO AND RECORDS
NATIONAL AC CHART: week ending 7-15-05

 #23: Inside Your Heaven-Carrie Underwood {332 airplays}

This single is up from #25 on the R&R AC singles chart. I hadn't thought to look on the AC chart since Carrie was being marketed country!?! So, she's got a Top-30 AC hit, too, with her single

[Pamela]

Thanks Jerry, that's great info!  Here's some more:

Commercial single sales numbers for Carrie and Bo:

Carrie sold 30,325 copies of her commercial single this past week, in the #1 spot on the Hot-100 Single Sales chart. That's a dropoff of about 27% from last week. That brings her 5-week total to 333,288 copies sold (should be about 1K less, I think, because her 2nd-week tally was adjusted down somewhat).

Bo sold 29,170 copies of his commercial single this week in the #2 spot on the Hot-100 Single Sales chart, down 27% from last week, bringing his 4-week sales total to 235,984 copies sold (it should actually be a few thousand less, because the cumulative tally wasn't adjusted when his first-week tally was adjusted down).

Neither of them is in the top-50 for digital downloads, so both sold less than 7,744 copies digitally.

From Billboard via 43dudleyvillas at CV.

[lorraine]

PAM - THANKS FOR THAT INFO.  ALL I KNOW IS OUR CLAY WILL NEVER BE FORGOTTEN WHETHER HE GETS RADIO PLAY OR NOT.

[cjrmax]

Carrie is singing for Hershey bars!

OKLAHOMA CITY (AP) - "American Idol" winner Carrie Underwood will sing classic jingles in a new television ad campaign for the Hershey Co.

Underwood, a native of Checotah, will sing "sometimes you feel like a nut ... sometimes you don't" for Almond Joy and Mounds. She also will sing "give me a break" for Kit Kat and "Hershey's is ... the great American chocolate bar."

Having Underwood sing the jingles gives a modern twist to the candy, Jay Cooper, Hershey's vice president of U.S. chocolate brands, said recently.

Underwood, 22, also will be a spokeswoman for Skechers, a California sneaker maker, in an ad campaign.

MY WAY NEWS

What's that - two endorsements already for Carrie and Clay has yet to get one???  Team Clay - get moving!

[Clayhottiefan007]

hey
whoo hoo im a big Carrie fan like clay! WHOO HOO we finally got an OKLAHOMAIN (okies) singer in AI!!!!!
well
Kat.......out

[lorraine]

CHRISTIE - I AGREE.  I CAN'T BELIEVE CLAY HASN'T GOTTEN SOME KIND OF DEAL LIKE THAT.  SOMEBODY BETTER LIGHT A FIRE UNDER HIS TEAM.