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''Blown Away'' is the fourth studio album from American country music singer Carrie Underwood. It was released in the United States and Canada on May 1, 2012 by Arista Nashville. The album debuted at number one on ''Billboard'' 200 with first-week sales of 267,000 copies. It became the third-largest opening of 2012. With ''Blown Away'' reaching number one, Underwood became the third female to chart at number one on the ''Billboard'' 200 with three country albums, tying her with Linda Ronstadt and Faith Hill.〔 Like her three previous albums, ''Blown Away'' debuted at the top of the Country Albums chart, making Underwood the second artist to send his or her first four albums to number one, along with Miranda Lambert. The album remained at number one for a second week on the ''Billboard'' 200, becoming Underwood's first album to spend more than one week at the top. The album was the seventh best selling album of 2012 in the US, being the second time Underwood has an album inside the top 10 albums since her debut album ''Some Hearts'' (2005) landed at number three in 2006. It was number two for country albums. ''Blown Away'' finished 2012 with over 1,400,000 copies sold worldwide, according to the International Federation of the Phonographic Industry. As of November 2014, ''Blown Away'' has sold 1,701,300 copies in the US.〔 In 2013, at the 55th Grammy Awards, Underwood won the Grammy Award for Best Country Solo Performance, for the album's second single, "Blown Away", which also won Best Country Song for its songwriters. == Background == After Underwood's Play On Tour ended in December 2010, she started to work on her fourth studio album. Underwood took her time working on ''Blown Away''. She stated that she "wanted to change things up", and she needed to step away from the "celebrity bubble" to "have real things to write about and real things to sing about." Sony Music Nashville chairman/CEO Gary Overton said that the singer "took nearly a year to compile and record the songs." Songwriters Chris Tompkins and Josh Kear wrote "Blown Away" and sent it to the singer. Underwood loved the song and recorded it, also naming her album ''Blown Away'' as it was the song that defined the album's darker direction. She then started writing material with several songwriters, including Hillary Lindsey and Kear. Together, the trio wrote "Two Black Cadillacs", which is about two women finding out that they both are involved in a relationship with the same man and set their differences aside to kill him. Underwood said that "it was so much fun to write and just be in that room" with Lindsey and Kear, as they "didn't really know what to expect or where we were headed or what we would end up with." Underwood has stated that this album will contain material that is different from her previous efforts. She has stated that she isn't trying to impress people with what () can do" and she doesn't "have to sing to the moon with every single song" with this project. The lead single, "Good Girl," is said to be the album's most upbeat track, with the other tracks creating a much darker record. The album combines country, pop and rock genres. 抄文引用元・出典: フリー百科事典『 ウィキペディア（Wikipedia）』 ■ウィキペディアで「Blown Away (album)」の詳細全文を読む スポンサード リンク
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