I want people to think of me as a nice person. I really am so blessed. All of this has been a great experience and I thank the American public so much for putting me in this position. I appreciate every second of it.

The telecast will be a three-hour event on a date to be announced near the holidays in 2013. She then started her headlined tour the Carnival Ride Tour in February 2008 with dates across all North America and ended it on December 14 2008 playing to 1. At the 2009 CMA Awards Carrie Underwood received two nominations and co-hosted the ceremony with Brad Paisley.

Underwood is also a two-time winner of the Academy of Country Music Entertainer of the Year award and the first female artist to win such an award twice (2009/10). She is also the female country artist with the most number one hits on the Billboard Hot Country Songs chart from 1991 to present having 12 No. Underwood has since become a multi-platinum selling recording artist a winner of six Grammy Awards sixteen Billboard Music Awards seven American Music Awards and ten Academy of Country Music Awards among several others.