Carrie Underwood single “Cowboy Casanova” explodes

Superstar Carrie Underwood has the nation’s #1 country digital single as “Cowboy Casanova” explodes with massive first-week sales of 110,236 copies. With the achievement, Underwood remains the only solo country artist this year to debut a digital single above the 100,000 mark – a feat she’s accomplished not once, but twice in 2009, having also hit the six digits with her recording of this season’s American Idol farewell theme, “Home Sweet Home.”

The red-hot first single from Carrie’s November 3 album release, Play On, “Cowboy Casanova” makes its video debut this weekend as part of CMT’s multi-artist Big New Music Weekend of nine exclusive video premieres. Watch for Carrie as the premieres take over CMT’s music video program blocks, the first airing from 6-11 AM ET on October 2. Fans can also look for the video beginning Friday on CMT.com, as well as the continuous-video CMT Pure, also starting Friday at 6 AM ET.

A four-time GRAMMY Award winner, ACM Entertainer of the Year, and reigning, three-time CMA and ACM Female Vocalist winner, Carrie re-teams for the upcoming Play On with producer Mark Bright, who helmed her Carnival Ride collection as well as seven tracks from her 2005 album debut, Some Hearts. To date, Underwood has amassed more than 10 million in U.S. album sales with Some Hearts and 2007’s Carnival Ride. Along the way, she has consistently broken new ground and earlier this year became the first country artist in history and the only American Idol winner ever to achieve 10 #1 singles from their first two albums.

In addition to this week’s sales achievement with “Cowboy Casanova,” the sizzling track is also the fastest climbing country airplay single of Carrie’s career and the fastest rising hit of the year, currently #11 at country radio.