Some Hearts

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Some Hearts
Studio album by Carrie Underwood
Released	November 15, 2005 (2005-11-15)
Recorded	2005 Starstruck Studios (Nashville, TN) Plant Recording (Sausalite, CA) Electrokitty Recording (Seattle, WA)
Genre	Country pop
Length	53:48
Label	Arista, Arista Nashville, 19 Entertainment
Producer	Dann Huff, Mark Bright
Professional reviews
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Carrie Underwood chronology
Some Hearts (2005) Carnival Ride (2007) Singles from Some Hearts "Inside Your Heaven" Released: June 11, 2005 "Jesus, Take the Wheel" Released: October 3, 2005 "Some Hearts" Released: October 29, 2005 "Don't Forget to Remember Me" Released: March 13, 2006 "Before He Cheats" Released: August 19, 2006 "Wasted" Released: February 6, 2007

Some Hearts is the debut album from fourth-season American Idol winner Carrie Underwood, released in the United States on November 15, 2005. It has been certified seven times platinum in the U.S. (RIAA) and three times platinum in Canada (CRIA). On December 4, 2006, Some Hearts was named the number-one selling album of the year in all genres at the Billboard Music Awards. It is also the best selling debut album by a solo female country music artist in history and the best selling album by an American Idol alumnus in the United States. The album contains the #1 singles "Inside Your Heaven", "Jesus, Take the Wheel", "Don't Forget to Remember Me", "Wasted", and "Before He Cheats", her biggest hit to date.

To promote Some Hearts, Carrie embarked on her very first solo tour, which was called Carrie Underwood: Live 2006. The tour started April 4, 2006 and ended November 30 of the same year.

With 6,859,000 copies sold in the United States, Some Hearts is listed as one of the 100 Best Selling Albums of All Time by the RIAA.^[1]. In December 2009, Billboard announced that the album was the biggest-selling country album of the decade, as well as the fourteenth biggest-selling album of any genre.^[2]

Commercial performance

Some Hearts debuted at number two on the U.S. Billboard 200 behind Madonna's Confessions On A Dance Floor, selling more than 315,000 copies; it was the fifth best first-week sales for any American Idol contestant (behind Ruben Studdard's Soulful, her own Play On and Carnival Ride, and Clay Aiken's Measure of a Man, which sold over 467,000 copies, 318,000 copies, 527,000 copies and 613,000 copies, respectively, in their first weeks). In the week of December 25, 2006, the album's fifty-eighth week on the chart, the album rose back up to number four on the Billboard 200 chart after selling close to 300,000 copies.

Some Hearts was the highest selling country album in the U.S. in both 2006 and 2007. The album now certified 7x Platinum and is the best-selling debut album of a female country artist.

As of July 3, 2008, the album is no longer present on the U.S. Billboard 200. It had a run of 136 weeks, the second-longest for any album released in 2005, behind Nickelback's All the Right Reasons. The following week, it dropped out of the Top Country Albums Chart, having had a 137 week run.

On the week dated December 12, 2009, under the changes of Billboard's rules, the album re-entered the Billboard 200, at #132.

The album has sold 6,901,000 copies in the United States.^[3]

Some Hearts was the first album to be certified seven times platinum in 2007, and it is the highest certified album by an American Idol contestant. Some Hearts was the third best selling album of 2006, and the best selling album of the Billboard magazine year (November 14, 2005 – November 12, 2006). Some Hearts is named Top Country Album of the Decade and 14th Top Album in the all-genre Billboard Top 200 Decade Ender Charts.

RIAA certifications

The following certifications were given to the album according to the date provided.

Chart performance

Singles

Carrie Underwood's American Idol winning single "Inside Your Heaven", which debuted at number one on the Billboard Hot 100 five months before the release of Some Hearts, is included on the album as a bonus track.

The first single from the album, "Jesus, Take the Wheel", was number one on the U.S. Billboard Hot Country Songs chart for six consecutive weeks and reached number twenty on the Billboard Hot 100.

"Some Hearts", a cover of the Marshall Crenshaw song, was released to pop and adult contemporary radio only and eventually reached number twelve on the Adult Contemporary chart.

"Don't Forget to Remember Me" was the third single from the album, and also proved successful, reaching number one on the Radio & Records Country Chart, number two on the Billboard Hot Country Songs chart, and number forty-nine on the Hot 100.

"Before He Cheats" was released as the next single, and climbed the charts faster than any of Underwood's other singles, making it into the top twenty of the Hot Country Songs chart before the release of a music video. "Before He Cheats" subsequently peaked at number one on the Hot Country Songs chart for five consecutive weeks, and at number eight on the Hot 100; it proved to be a huge crossover hit, making appearances in the top twenty of every chart on which it appeared, and it is the biggest hit overall from the album.

"Wasted" also proved another successful hit for Underwood by peaking at number one for three consecutive weeks on the Hot Country Songs chart, and going to number thirty-seven on the Hot 100.

• ^A "Inside Your Heaven" wasn't released to country radio, but charted on U.S. Hot Country Songs from unsolicited airplay. The song peaked at #46 on the UK Singles Chart.
• ^B "Don't Forget to Remember Me" spent one week at Number One on the Radio & Records country singles chart.
• ^C "Before He Cheats" charted for twenty weeks on the U.S. Hot Country Songs chart before being confirmed as a single. The song was certified platinum twice in the United States and platinum in Canada.

Track listing

Personnel

As listed in liner notes.^[6]

String section on "Lessons Learned" and "Starts with Goodbye"

• Roberto Cani, Susan Chatman, Mario deLeon, Joel Derouin, Endre Granat, Julian Hallmark, Michael Markman, Sid Page, Alyssa Park, Michele Richards, Teresa Stanisla, Josefina Vergara – violins
• Denyse Buffum, Andrew Duckles, Matt Funes, Shanti Randall – violas
• Larry Corbett, Suzie Katayama, Steve Richards, Daniel Smith – cellos

All strings on "Jesus, Take the Wheel" performed and arranged by Jonathan Yudkin.

External links

• Billboard albums chart info

References