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American country music singer Carrie Underwood has released five studio albums and 29 singles. Underwood rose to fame after winning the fourth season of ''American Idol'' in 2005. Her debut album, ''Some Hearts'', was released in 2005 and is the fastest selling debut country album in Nielsen SoundScan history. It also became the best-selling solo female country debut in Recording Industry Association of America (RIAA) history, as well as the top selling debut album of any ''American Idol'' contestant in the United States.〔(【引用サイトリンク】title=Carrie Underwood's 'Some Hearts' Hits 6 Million, Becoming the Best-Selling Solo Female Country )〕 Her second album, ''Carnival Ride'', was released in 2007 and debuted at number one on the ''Billboard'' 200 charts. During the first week it sold 527,000 copies, at the time the best sales week by a female solo country artist since Shania Twain's ''Greatest Hits'' sold 530,000 copies in its first week back in 2004.〔(【引用サイトリンク】title=Carrie Underwood's new 'Carnival Ride' album debuts at No. 1 )〕 The album has since been certified 3x Platinum. Underwood released her third studio album, ''Play On'', on November 3, 2009. It debuted at number one on the Top Country Albums chart and the all-genre ''Billboard'' 200. It features the number one singles "Cowboy Casanova", "Temporary Home", and "Undo It", as well as the number two single, "Mama's Song". The album has since been certified 2x Platinum in the US and Platinum in Canada. On June, 2011, the album re-entered the Australian Albums Charts for both the ARIA National Top 50 and the Country Top 20 albums at number 14 and number one, respectively, giving Underwood her first number one album in Australia. On May 1, 2012, Underwood released her fourth album, ''Blown Away''. In the United States, it sold 267,000 albums in its first week and debuted at number one on the ''Billboard'' 200 and the Top Country Albums charts. It debuted at number one in Canada's Top 200 all-genre albums chart and Top 100 Country albums chart, being immediately certified Gold. The album also debuted at number one on Australia's Top 20 Country Albums and number four on the all-genre Top 50 Albums.〔(Latest News | The Official Carrie Underwood Site ). Carrieunderwoodofficial.com (2012-05-15). Retrieved on 2012-07-03.〕 On December 9, 2014, Underwood released her first greatest hits album, ''Greatest Hits: Decade #1''. The compilation debuted at number four on the ''Billboard'' 200 and at number one on the Top Country Albums charts, and set several records upon release, including having the biggest sales debut for a hits collection in any genre of music in more than six years and the biggest first-week sales for a female hits album in any genre in over nine years. "Something in the Water" was released as the lead single from the album and it became a huge crossover success, having topped the ''Billboard'' Hot Country Songs for seven weeks and the Hot Christian Songs for twenty six consecutive weeks. The song won the Grammy Award for Best Country Solo Performance. The album was certified Gold by the RIAA on January 16, 2015. Underwood's fifth studio album, ''Storyteller'' was released on October 23, 2015. The album debuted at No.2 on the ''Billboard'' 200 . This made Underwood the only country artist to have his or her first five studio albums debut at number one or number two on the Billboard 200 chart. It also debuted atop the Top Country Albums chart, earning Underwood another record as the only artist to score six consecutive number one albums on that chart. Underwood has sold in excess of 65 million records globally.〔(【引用サイトリンク】title=The Weeknd announces Nov. 30 Edmonton show )〕 In the United States, she has sold over 15.3 million album copies—as of October, 2015〔—and 29.6 million digital single downloads—as of January, 2014,〔(【引用サイトリンク】title=TV singing shows fail to create stars )〕 making her the best-selling ''American Idol'' contestant of all time.〔 She is the Top Country Artist and the fifth highest-certified female artist on the RIAA Top Artists (Digital Singles) Ranking.〔(【引用サイトリンク】title=Carrie Underwood Is Current Top Country Artist On RIAA Digital Single Ranking )〕 She is also the fourth biggest album seller among artists who have debuted the past 13 years. ==Studio albums== 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「Carrie Underwood discography」の詳細全文を読む スポンサード リンク
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