Billboard named her the top female country artist of the 2000s and 2010s and Some Hearts the top country album of the 2000s. Her accolades include seven Grammy Awards, 12 Billboard Music Awards, 17 American Music Awards, five Guinness World Records, 15 Academy of Country Music Awards and inductions into the Hollywood Walk of Fame and the Grand Ole Opry. She is the sixth highest-certified female artist and the highest-certified female country artist of all time on the RIAA's Top Artists (Digital Singles) ranking, and the female artist with the most number-one entries on the Billboard Country Airplay chart, with 16. Underwood has sold 70 million records worldwide. She released her first Christmas project, My Gift, in 2020, and her first gospel collection, My Savior, in 2021.

With her sixth album, Cry Pretty (2018), she became the only woman to top the Billboard 200 with four country albums, and had both the biggest week for any album by a woman in 2018. Her fifth studio album, Storyteller (2015), made her the only country artist to have all studio albums reach either numbers one or two on the Billboard 200 chart. Underwood's first compilation, Greatest Hits: Decade #1 (2014), spawned the crossover single ' Something in the Water'. She achieved the second best-selling release by a woman in 2012 and won a Grammy Award with her fourth album, Blown Away (2012). Her third studio album, Play On (2009), was preceded by the single ' Cowboy Casanova', which had one of the biggest single-week upward movements on the Hot 100.

The next studio album, Carnival Ride (2007), had one of the biggest opening weeks of all time by a female artist and won two Grammy Awards. She won three Grammy Awards for the album, including Best New Artist. Her debut album, Some Hearts (2005), was bolstered by the successful crossover singles ' Jesus, Take the Wheel' and ' Before He Cheats', becoming the best-selling solo female debut album in country music history. Underwood's debut single, ' Inside Your Heaven', made her the only country artist to debut at number one on the Billboard Hot 100 chart and the only solo country artist in the 2000s to have a number-one song on the Hot 100. She rose to prominence after winning the fourth season of American Idol in 2005. Carrie Marie Underwood (born March 10, 1983) is an American singer and songwriter.

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