Nashville- (Sept. 22, 2015) – Following a headline show at London’s Roundhouse as part of the Apple Music Festival yesterday, Carrie Underwood today performed an exclusive set of hits, including her new single, “Smoke Break,” to an intimate crowd at The Edition Hotel to launch her new album Storyteller.
Carrie’s fifth studio album, Storyteller is released worldwide on October 23, preceded by the single “Smoke Break,” available digitally now.
Watch the official video for “Smoke Break” here.
Tracklist:
1. Renegade Runaway
2. Dirty Laundry
3. Church Bells
4. Heartbeat
5. Smoke Break
6. Choctaw County Affair
7. Like I’ll Never Love You Again
8. Chaser
9. Relapse
10. Clock Don’t Stop
11. The Girl You Think I Am
12. Mexico
13. What I Never Knew I Always Wanted
Carrie is also very proud to announce three headline performances at Country to Country 2016. Having performed at the inaugural event in 2013, Carrie will return to play all three nights of the festival. C2C will be held at London’s O2 Arena, Dublin 3 Arena, and for the first year, an additional 3rd night, at Glasgow’s Clyde Auditorium. Carrie will play C2C 2016 on the following dates:
Glasgow Clyde Auditorium March 11
London The O2 Arena March 12
Dublin 3 Arena March 13
“Country to Country is delighted to welcome Carrie Underwood back to the event as headliner in our fourth year. In addition to London O2 we are delighted to have her help launch our inaugural Glasgow event and our third year of C2C in Dublin.
Carrie Underwood helped establish the event in our first year and the creation of the biggest celebration of country music outside North America. Country to Country is proud to have event partners BBC Radio 2 and the CMA." –Chris York, SJM
The full event line up and on-sale details will be exclusively revealed during a C2C Launch Party at Brooklyn Bowl on Tues., October 6. There will also be a special guest performance on the night.
About Carrie Underwood: Carrie Underwood emerged from the promise of her 2005 American Idol win to become a true multi-format, multi-media superstar, spanning achievements in music, television, and film. A seven-time GRAMMY® Award winner, she has amassed nearly 100 major honors, sold 58 million records worldwide, and recorded 21 #1 singles, 11 of which she co-wrote. The first female artist to be twice named the Academy of Country Music’s Entertainer of the Year, Underwood was recognized as Pollstar’s top female country touring artist for her headlining tours in 2008, 2010, and 2012. Her four studio albums, Some Hearts, Carnival Ride, Play On, and Blown Away – each certified multi-Platinum or Platinum, and each an American Music Awards winner as Country Album of the Year – tallied 38 weeks at #1 on Billboard’s Top Country Albums chart with songs that have been streamed more than 1.5 billion times worldwide. In 2013, she starred as Maria von Trapp in NBC’s three-hour holiday blockbuster, the Emmy®-winning The Sound of Music Live!, whose airings attracted 44 million viewers. In late 2014, the Grand Ole Opry member released her first hits collection, Greatest Hits: Decade #1. Celebrating her first 10 years of music, the 25 songs included two new hits co-written by Underwood: the Platinum-certified, GRAMMY-winning “Something in the Water,” as well as the #1 smash “Little Toy Guns.” In September of 2015, she began her third season as the voice of primetime television’s #1 program, Sunday Night Football, and on November 4, she’ll return for an eighth consecutive year as co-host of the CMA Awards. Underwood is at radio now with her record-breaking single “Smoke Break,” the first single released from her fifth studio album, Storyteller, out worldwide on October 23, 2015.
C2C: Country to Country is an annual multi-day country music festival created by AEG Europe and SJM Concerts in association with the Country Music Association. It takes place at The O2 in London each March and is now Europe's largest country music festival and welcomes over 30,000 fans across the weekend. One of the most unique factors of the festival in London is the free entertainment across the site for ticket holders as well as non-ticket holders. Over 80 new and emerging artists perform on the pop-up stages and the Town Square sells everything from clothes, to music memorabilia and a variety of food and drink as the pop-up stage entertains the crowds.
Due to overwhelming demand for country music, the festival will add an extra day in 2016 and run for three nights at The O2 from 11th and 13th March. Across the same weekend, it will also take place in Glasgow for the first time and will return to Dublin for the third time.