Carrie Underwood announces “THE CRY PRETTY TOUR 360” for 2019 new show will be performed In The Round

SUPERSTAR CARRIE UNDERWOOD ANNOUNCES
“THE CRY PRETTY TOUR 360” FOR 2019

New Show Will Be Performed In The Round
Featuring An All-Female Line-up

special guests Maddie & Tae and Runaway June!

#CryPrettyTourBundle

#CryPrettyTour360

CALIA by Carrie 

Bundles Of Wonderful News!

Nashville, TN – (August 8, 2018) – Seven-time Grammy winner and Pollstar’s three-time top female country touring artist, Carrie Underwood, will launch a new arena tour, The Cry Pretty Tour 360, in Spring 2019. Sponsored by CALIA (Facebook), the new tour will kick off on May 1 in Greensboro, NC, and will play 55 arenas across the U.S. and Canada and be promoted by AEG Presents.

She will be joined on tour by special guests Maddie & Tae and Runaway June. Underwood made the announcement Wednesday (Aug 8) in a personal video to her fans:

Ooh baby do we have a bundle of info to share with you! Click here for info on The Cry Pretty Tour 360! #CryPrettyTourBundle #CryPrettyTour360 #CryPrettyAlbum @CALIAbyCarrie https://t.co/9K79jKnwai pic.twitter.com/kcL76v6XuK

— Carrie Underwood (@carrieunderwood) 8 August 2018

Yes, Carrie and her husband, Mike Fisher, are expecting their second child. The superstar revealed the joyous news in the video seated below a silver balloon that reads, "Baby"! Carrie shared:  "You might be asking, 'Carrie, why is your tour starting in May?' Well ..." paused Underwood, as the camera pulled away to reveal the word "baby" in balloons above her head. "Mike and Isaiah and I are absolutely over the moon and excited to be adding another little Fish to our pond!" This has just been a dream come true with album and baby news and all that stuff. We are just so excited and just so glad that you guys can share in this with us and be a part of this with us. Love you guys, and we’ll see you on the road in 2019.”

The new bundle of joy will join big brother Isaiah, who was born February 27th, 2015. Carrie is currently sitting inside the Top 10 with her single, “Cry Pretty,” which is also the title of her new album, Cry Pretty, available September 14th.

Carrie further shared: “I’m so looking forward to the Cry Pretty Tour 360. It’s so much fun being on stage. It’s an energy. I love singing anywhere. I love being in the studio, but it’s just different when you have fans that are singing your songs back to you and kind of throwing that energy back to you. It takes everything to a whole new level, and there’s just like so much adrenaline from the crowd and the lights and the music and everything’s loud. There’s nothing else like it.”

Tickets for THE CRY PRETTY TOUR 360 concerts go on sale to the general public beginning Friday, August 17th at 10am local time but please check local listings. For more information including the Cry Pretty album/ticket bundle *, go to www.carrieunderwoodofficial.com. Also beginning Monday, August 13th, a limited number of exclusive VIP Packages will be available which include an amazing selection of tickets, Meet & Greets, autographed memorabilia, custom merchandise and much more.

WHATS A TICKET BUNDLE REDEMPTION?

* Following in footsteps of Kenny Chesney (Live in No Shoes Nation; No1; 216,804 debut traditional sales), Shania (NOW; No1 Billboard 200; 134,268 in traditional sales including 115,211 Non-traditional ticket bundle purchases + others), Tim McGraw & Faith Hill (The Rest Of Our Life; No1 Country; 98,351 debut traditional sales), Keith Urban (Graffiti U; No1 Country; 136,836 debut traditional sales), Jason Aldean (Rearview Town; No1 Billboard 200; 162,500 debut traditional sales) and Dierks Bentley (The Mountain; No1 Country; 94,000 debut traditional sales) sees Carrie also aiming for a No1 Album debut using concert ticket/album bundle sale redemption promotion. The cost of the album is bundled into the price of each ticket sold online for a tour. After purchasing a ticket, customers received (via email) a redemption offer for the album, where they can redeem the album, and have it mailed to them.

Every Online Ticket Purchase Comes with one (1) CD Of Carrie Underwood's Upcoming Album, "Cry Pretty". Customers will receive an additional email with instructions on how to redeem your CD from either Musicbundles.com or Ticketmaster.com.

MusicBundles.com downloads are delivered as a zip folder containing 320 kbps MP3s inside. To access the MP3s and play them with software such as iTunes, Windows Media Player, etc., you must extract the files within first.

I redeemed for a physical item. When will I receive it? CD or LP delivery generally takes between 7-10 business days. Items ship on the products official release day.

Citi® is the official presale credit card for Carrie Underwood’s “The Cry Pretty Tour 360” for 2019. As such, Citi® cardmembers will have access to purchase presale tickets beginning on Monday, August 13 at 12pm until Thursday, August 16 at 10pm through Citi’s Private Pass® program. For complete presale details, visit www.citiprivatepass.com.

Underwood will release her eagerly-anticipated new album, CRY PRETTY, on September 14.

Cry Pretty will be her first studio album on Capitol Records Nashville and marks the first time she has co-produced her own album. The lead single and title track, “Cry Pretty” debuted as the #1 song in the U.S. all-genres. The song also topped download charts in 38 countries around the world and amassed over 3.5 billion social impressions across 66 countries during its week of launch in April, which was culminated with a show-stopping performance on the “2018 ACM Awards” telecast. Carrie co-wrote the powerful single with Hillary Lindsey, Lori McKenna, and Liz Rose (aka The Love Junkies) and co-produced Cry Pretty with fellow writer/producer David Garcia.

Following her successful “The Storyteller Tour – Stories in the Round,” the new production will feature a brand-new stage in the middle of the arena floor, creating a unique 360-degree setting to allow fans on all sides of the arena an intimate view of the concert. Barry Lather (Rihanna, Mariah Carey, Michael Jackson) is the tour’s Creative Director, and Nick Whitehouse/Fireplay (Justin Timberlake, Beyonce) is Production Designer.

Maddie and Tae: Photo credit Carlos Ruiz

“I love performing in the round,” says Underwood. “It’s so much fun for me and the band to play in every direction and creates a much more intimate and immersive experience for the audience, even in a larger arena setting. It’s been exciting to introduce audiences to Cry Pretty and I can’t wait to bring the new album to life on this tour, along with all of the songs we love to play live. I’m thrilled to be going out with an amazing line-up – Maddie & Tae and Runaway June are incredible artists that are going to bring even more electricity to our shows.”

Congratulations on Baby #2, @CarrieUnderwood! We’re so thankful to be joining you on the #CryPrettyTour360. Go ahead and put our names in the hat to be your resident babysitters!! 👶😉 pic.twitter.com/jG3WBLihQs

— Maddie & Tae (@MaddieandTae) 8 August 2018

Runaway June; Photo credit Kristin Barlowe

“Our customers love getting early access to the best in entertainment, so we are thrilled to be partnering with Carrie Underwood as the official presale credit card of her 2019 tour,” said Jennifer Breithaupt, Global Consumer Chief Marketing Officer, Citi.

Underwood has arranged for a donation of $1 from each ticket sold for The Cry Pretty Tour 360 to be contributed to Danita’s Children, which provides a safe haven for abandoned and vulnerable children in Haiti, while encouraging families to stay together through their education and malnutrition programs.

Prior to embarking on the tour next Spring, Underwood will appear at the upcoming iHeart Music Festival in Las Vegas, as well as such international festivals as The Long Road Festival (Saturday 8 Sept 2018 Ticketmaster UK and www.thelongroad.com/tickets/) and Radio 2 Live in Hyde Park (Sunday 9 Sept) in the UK, Tuckerville in The Netherlands (Sept 1), and Deni Ute Muster in Australia (Sept 29 including Kasey Chambers, Busby Marou, Troy Cassar-Daley, Thirsty Merc, Gord Bamford, Travis Collins and Fanny Lumsden).

The Cry Pretty Tour 360 stage:

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55 dates in America & Canada

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THE CRY PRETTY TOUR 360:

Date                               City                                       Venue

May 1, 2019                    Greensboro, NC                     Greensboro Coliseum

To

Oct 31, 2019                   Detroit, MI                              Little Caesars Arena 

Full tour dates list www.carrieunderwoodofficial.com

*Tickets on sale Friday, Aug 24th in Wichita, Kansas City and Sioux Falls .

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Carrie was recognized by Pollstar as the top female country touring artist for each of her headlining tours in 2008, 2010, 2012 and for 2016’s “The Storyteller Tour – Stories in the Round.” Her earlier “Blown Away Tour” played 112 shows in 110 cities across three continents and six countries, including sold-out shows at London’s prestigious Royal Albert Hall, and two nights at the Sydney Opera House in Sydney, Australia. She topped Billboard’s Top 25 Tours of 2016 as the leading female country artist and was the leading female artist on Country Aircheck’s top country radio performers list for her success in both 2015 and 2016. Her five studio albums, Some Hearts, Carnival Ride, Play On, Blown Away and Storyteller – are certified Platinum or multi-Platinum, each winning an American Music Award as Favorite Country Album and tallying an incredible 40 weeks at #1 on Billboard’s Top Country Albums chart. Carrie is the first female artist to be twice named the Academy of Country Music’s Entertainer of the Year. In addition to seven GRAMMY® awards, she has won six CMA Awards, 17 CMT Music Awards, 12 American Music Awards and numerous other awards and honors. She recently took home her 14th career ACM Award for Vocal Event of the Year for “The Fighter,” her collaboration with Keith Urban.

Carrie Underwood CHART HISTORY

STORYTELLER (released Oct 23, 2015 Arista Nashville/Sony Music Nashville) debut at No.2 on the Billboard 200 logging 177,000 equivalent-album units with 164,212 in pure album sales. By May 14, 2016 it had sold 573,200 copies and on Oct 24, 2016 it was certified Platinum (1 Million units *). It debuted at No.2 on both Top Album Sales and Digital Albums behind 5 Seconds of Summer. Arriving atop Billboard’s Top Country Albums chart (dated Nov. 14) she became the first artist in the survey’s 51-year history to post six consecutive career-opening No1s. Storyteller lifted Underwood into a tie with Dolly Parton for third place among female artists with the most Top Country Albums leaders, behind Reba McEntire (12) and Loretta Lynn (eight).

Additionally, all of Carrie’s albums had opened atop the list, starting with 2005’s Some Hearts.

In the UK STORYTELLER made a debut at No.13 (6,852 sales; chart week November 5, 2015)

Greatest Hits: Decade #1 (released Dec 9, 2014 Arista Nashville) debuted at No.4 Billboard 200; #1 Top Country Albums selling 93,714 copies. it was certified GOLD (0.5 million units) on Jan 16, 2015 and Platinum (1 Million units) on Jan 8, 2016      

Blown Away (Released May 1, 2012 Arista Nashville) debuted at No.1 Billboard 200; #1 Top Country Albums selling 267,338 copies. At the time she became only the third woman to take three country albums to No.1 on the Billboard 200, Linda Ronstadt and Faith Hill were the others. It was certified 2x Multi-Platinum (2-million units) on October 24, 2016.

In the UK the album debuted at #11 (9,595 sales chart dated June 24, 2012)

Play On (released Nov 3, 2009 Arista Nashville) debuted at No.1 Billboard 200; #1 Top Country Albums selling 317,695 copies. It was certified 3x Multi-Platinum (3-million units) on October 24, 2016.

In the UK the it reached No.93 and as of Nov 2015 had sold 19,700 copies.

Carnival Ride (released Oct 23, 2007 Arista Nashville) debuted at No.1 Billboard 200; #1 Top Country Albums selling 527,000 copies. It was certified 4x Multi-Platinum (4-million units) on Oct 24, 2016

Some Hearts (released Nov 15, 2005 Arista Nashville) debuted at No.2 Billboard 200; #1 Top Country Albums selling 315,000 copies. It was certified 8x Multi-Platinum (8-million units) on October 24, 2016.

* Note: For ALBUM certifications the RIAA base their figures on the number of units SHIPPED together with, track sales and on demand audio/ video stream units and NOT based purely on traditional retail sales.

1,500 on-demand audio and/or video song streams = 10 track sales = 1 album sale.

150 on-demand streams = 1 track download