Carrie Underwood's 'Before He Cheats' Soars Into the Top 10 of the Mainstream Top 40!

Carrie Underwood's 'Before He Cheats' Soars Into the Top 10 of the Mainstream Top 40!

Powerhouse Single Spent Five Weeks atop the Country Chart, Underscoring Underwood's Cross-Format Undeniability!

'Before He Cheats' is the first country video ever played on TRL

NASHVILLE, Tenn., May 7 /PRNewswire/ -- CMA Female Vocalist of the Year and double GRAMMY winner Carrie Underwood recently wrapped a three-week reign at #1 on the country charts with "Wasted," and now her previous multi-week country chart-topper, "Before He Cheats," showcases her massive cross-format appeal as it cracks the Top 10 on the Billboard Mainstream Top 40 Radio Airplay chart this week at #9*. The last country song to break into the Top 10 on the Mainstream Top 40 Radio Airplay chart was Faith Hill back in 2000 with "Breathe."

Already a Top 10 at Hot AC, "Before He Cheats" notched a whopping five weeks as country's #1 single in late '06, scoring a People's Choice Award for Favorite Country Song and earning multiple trophies at the 2007 CMT Music Awards. Now in rotation at MTV, the video for "Before He Cheats" was a recent "First Look" on TRL and became the first country video ever to air on the show and the first country video added to MTV since Shania Twain's "Man, I Feel Like a Woman" in 1999. It's also red hot at VH1, where it's the #4 most- played video and #4 on the viewer-voted VSpot Top 20 Video Countdown.

"Before He Cheats" is from Carrie's Arista Records/19 Recordings breakthrough debut album, Some Hearts, now certified Quintuple Platinum. Released in November of 2005, the disc's incredible sales momentum has propelled it to #1 for a remarkable 23 of its 76 chart weeks -- holding the #1 position on Billboard's Top Country Albums chart across multiple weeks in 2005, 2006, and 2007, and reclaiming the top spot again on the current chart. Billboard's Album of the Year and Country Album of the Year in 2006, the disc's singles have amassed 14 weeks atop Billboard's Hot Country Songs chart. A GRAMMY winner for Female Country Vocal Performance as well as Best New Artist, Underwood has received honors from the American Music Awards, the Academy of Country Music, the Country Music Association, and more.

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