Carrie Underwood Earns New RIAA Certifications

Hey everyone, it looks like Carrie Underwood songs off of Carrie Underwood’s Greatest Hits: Decade #1 (Something In The Water and Little Toy Guns) continue to dominate their mettle and their metal as Carrie Underwood earns new Recording Industry Association of America (RIAA) Gold & Platinum certifications of 4.5 million. This accolade makes her the current top country artist on the artist on the RIAA’s Digital Single Ranking with certifications of 28 million across 20 songs.

The 28 million tally also places Carrie Underwood among the Top 5 females in history of the RIAA’s Digital Single Program, surpassing something like Britney Spears and Iggy Azalea, in the company of worldwide female superstars like Rihanna and Katy Perry.

Among Carrie Underwood’s newest certifications is a Gold Digital Single for her most recent #1 smash, Little Toy Guns, as well as her highest RIAA Digital Single honor to date: a 5x-Platinum certification for her chart-topping blockbuster, Before He Cheats. With that accomplishment, Carrie Underwood becomes one of the five only country artists in RIAA history to achieve that threshold with a digital single.

With the Gold status of Little Toy Guns, both new singles from Carrie Underwood’s Greatest Hits: Decade #1 have now been RIAA certified following the Platinum certification earlier this year of her chart-topping Grammy Award winner, Something In The Water.

Featuring 20 #1 hits, as well as four favorites in never-before-released versions, Carrie Underwood’s Greatest Hits is available now and Carrie Underwood is currently working on new music for her upcoming fifth studio album.

In addition, MTV Hits has aired a whole hour of Carrie Underwood music videos on Hits Takeover which includes the music videos for Something In The Water and Little Toy Guns alongside other music videos like Two Black Cadillacs as well as other music videos that never aired on MTV Hits like Wasted.

I would say, congrats Carrie Underwood. Now then, if Carrie Underwood is country, then how come she is not country if her career is country? Oh yeah, I think Carrie Underwood needs to tackle pop music because country females rarely played on country nowadays including her. So I was thinking about Carrie Underwood making her first pop music as her first side project since country will always be Carrie Underwood’s main genre. So I was thinking that pop music will be Carrie Underwood’s small project for pop audiences. In fact she can do a crossover with pop and have pop music designed for pop audiences. She is the perfect country star to take pop music and have a crossover appeal for both country and pop at the same time.

So with the announcement of Carrie Underwood’s upcoming fifth album, have Carrie Underwood record more mature pop music and have something like Max Martin to help her as well as collaborating a pop artist like Demi Lovato for a pop collabo. This will be Carrie Underwood’s risky project and she can break away from country and do pop music has her next dream project.

Carrie Underwood making pop music as well as making a pop album will not alienate her country career since she needs big country music for country stations. That way, her small pop projects will play exclusively to pop stations.

Anyway, congratulations, Carrie Underwood.