I respect country music because I feel like it's more about the talent and the songwriting and I put on a big show and we have a lot of stuff, but I feel confident in myself enough as an artist and a singer that I can have all of those fun toys and know that we don't need all the bells and whistles either.

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.