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Some Hearts the Album...

Some Hearts...

-made its debut at #2 on the Billboard 200, behind Madonna's Confessions on a Dance Floor.

-sold more than 315,000 copies, which are the third best first-week sales for any American Idol winner (behind Ruben Studdard's Soulful and Clay Aiken's Measure of a Man which sold over 400,000 copies and 600,000 copies, respectively, in the first week).

-debuted at number two on the Worldwide Chart.

-is the best-selling debut album coming from any American Idol finalist, and the highest selling country debut album of the Soundscan Era.

-was certified platinum 3 weeks after its release, (12/9/05)

-was certified double platinum on 1/6/06

-was certified triple platinum on 4/28/06

-quadruple platinum on 11/6/06

-was certified Quintuple Platinum as of 1/10/07

-was certified Sextuple Platinum as of 5/10/07

-was one of the best selling albums of 2006, and the best selling album of the Billboard year: November 14, 2005 - November 12, 2006.

-The first single off the album was "Inside Your Heaven" which debuted at #1 on the Billboard Hot 100.

-The follow-up single, "Jesus, Take The Wheel", was #1 on the Hot Country Songs Chart for 6 consecutive weeks and reached a peak of #20 on the Hot 100.

-"Some Hearts" was released to pop and adult contemporary radio only and eventually reached #12 on the Adult Contemporary chart.

-"Don't Forget to Remember Me" was the third single from the album, reaching #1 on the Radio And Records Country Chart and #2 on the Billboard Hot Country Songs Chart.

-"Before He Cheats" was released as the next single, and climbed up the charts faster than any of her other singles, making it into the top 20 of the Billboard Hot Country Song Chart before releasing a video.
-"Before He Cheats" subsequently peaked at number 1 on Billboard's Hot Country Songs for 5 consecutive weeks and has peaked at 16 on the Hot 100 Chart, proving to be a huge crossover hit that make appereances in the top 20 of every chart it appeared on and the biggest hit overall off her debut album.

-Carrie has sold over 2.5 million digital downloads with all her singles together.

-Carrie's debut album figures are the highest of any American Idol winner or contestant in the show's history.

-April 11, 2007 – Carrie Underwood is atop the country airplay charts once again this week as her fourth single, “Wasted,” follows the #1 success of “Jesus, Take the Wheel,” “Don’t Forget to Remember Me,” and “Before He Cheats.” With “Wasted,” Carrie becomes the first female country artist in the monitored era to achieve four #1 singles from her debut album. She joins her Arista Nashville labelmates Alan Jackson and Brooks & Dunn as the three most recent artists in country music to enjoy this remarkable feat on their first album. The singles are all from Underwood’s unstoppable 19 Recordings/Arista Nashville debut disc, Some Hearts, now certified 5-times Platinum.

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