Carrie Underwood Net Worth

How much is Carrie Underwood worth?

Net Worth:$220 Million
Profession:Professional Singer
Date of Birth:March 10, 1983 (age 39)
Country:United States of America
Height:
5 ft 2 in (1.6 m)

About Carrie Underwood

The volume of ticket sales and sheer fame that she has achieved, makes Carrie Underwood the biggest star to have come out of American Idol and by not a small margin. She got her start on the reality television competition, a path that often leads to fleeting success but has since sold 66 million albums worldwide. On the show she appealed to the wide pop audience and parlayed her bubbly southern personality and powerful pipes into a chart-topping, Grammy-winning career. Carrie Marie Underwood was born in Muskogee, Oklahoma and was raised in the small, country town of Checotah. Her mother taught at a local elementary school, while her father worked in a paper mill.

American country singer Carrie Underwood has an estimated net worth of $220 million dollars, as of 2023. The most successful American Idol winner is also the seventh highest-certified female artist and the highest-certified female country artist of all time.

She began singing in church from the age of three and took part in local talent competitions, eventually going on to perform at festival gigs in several states. As she developed, she also learned to play piano and the guitar. She attended Northeastern State University majoring in mass communications and with an idea that she may pursue a career in broadcast journalism. Then in 2005, as a senior and just a few credits shy from earning her degree, she tried out for the American Idol competition performing a version of Bonnie Raitt’s “I Can’t Make You Love Me”. Not only did she earn herself a spot on the show, but judge Simon Cowell predicted that she would win the entire competition.

He turned out to be right, as well. Marie won the fourth season with her performances of songs from as varied artists as Pat Benatar, Martina McBride, the Dixie Chicks and Roy Orbison. Her song from the finale, “Inside Your Heaven” was released that summer and ended up reaching number 1 on the Billboard Hot 100. After completing the “American Idols Live!” tour, her debut album followed. The album Some Hearts was released in fall and went on to sell over 300,000 copies in its first week. It has since been certified 9× Platinum by the RIAA. The lead single, “Jesus, Take the Wheel,” was a major contributing factor to the albums success, it struck a chord with listeners and as a single, placed number 1 on Billboard’s Hot Country Songs chart for six weeks. That made it the first debut country single to reach the Billboard Top 40 and the album also became the best selling album by an American Idol artist since the show began.

Out of nowhere, suddenly Carrie Underwood was a big country star. Some Hearts had allowed her to return to her country roots, something she once said she considers the most pure of all music genres. Acclaim followed her, and in 2006, after Underwood’s appearance on the 2006 American Idol finale, the album reentered Billboard’s Top 10. “Jesus, Take the Wheel” also won “Single Record of the Year” at the Academy of Country Music Awards, as well as “Breakthrough Video” and “Best Female Video” Awards, becoming the only double winner at the event.

These were the first of many awards for the country music upstart. Some Hearts went on to win five Billboard Music Awards that year, including the prestigious “Album of the Year”. In 2007, she proved her Idol win was no fluke when she won three Grammys including the coveted “Best New Artist” prize. Despite her hectic schedule, which included touring through the fall of 2006, and recording new music, she also managed to complete her degree. Her single “Before He Cheats”, was released in late 2006.

In 2007, Underwood was recording again, while working on her second album she performed “Wasted” in an episode of American Idol that March, one month later it hit number 1 on the Hot Country Songs chart. Her appearance was followed by another performance on the show for the sixth season finale, where she sang “I’ll Stand by You” earning a standing ovation. American record producer Clive Davis, commended her on her record sales on the show, her 6x Platinum certification made her the first country artist to sell that many copies of a debut album since LeAnn Rimes, in 1996.

All the while, despite having been thrust into sudden fame and fortune, Underwood was a natural and released her second album Carnival Ride, in October 2007. Almost immediately upon its released, four of the albums songs jumped to the top of the country charts and, between the single tracks and the album sales, the records earned millions of dollars in revenue. Underwood also earned another two Grammy Awards, accepting them and giving a speech is something that she would have to get accustomed to as she became one of the most highly grammy-nominated country artists in history.

In 2009, she released her third studio album, Play On, an album that contained seven songs that she co-wrote. That included the lead single “Cowboy Casanova,” which was nominated for “Song of the Year” at the 45th Academy of Country Music Awards. In 2012, she released Blown Away, her fourth studio album produced by Mark Bright and included the title track “Blown Away” and the hit single “Good Girl,” the album has since been certified 3× Platinum by the RIAA.

In 2013, Underwood appeared in the TV special The Sound of Music Live! portraying the role of Maria Rainer on NBC. As her music career began to slow down, Underwood continued to focus on songwriting. She released “Something in the Water” in 2014, a Christian-based song that topped the country and Christian charts, and earned her a Grammy for “Best Country Solo Performance”. Her fifth studio album, Storyteller, marked a decline in her music sales. However, it was still eventually certified Platinum by the RIAA saved by the tracks “Church Bells” and “Dirty Laundry.”

In 2017, Underwood decided to leave Arista Nashville for Capitol Records Nashville and began to reinvent herself. She duetted on the 2018 Super Bowl “The Champion,” with Ludacris, a song that made it to only 47 on the Billboard Hot 100. It was also featured in her sixth studio album, Cry Pretty and while the album debuted at number 1 on Billboard’s Country Charts and the Top 200; record sales were still not near to what she had previously experienced. Eventually, the album was certified Platinum by the RIAA. A certification that Underwood has not since been able to achieve with her three consecutive albums, My Gift, My Savior, and Denim & Rhinestones. However, she has made up for it with streams, Carrie Underwood currently has 9.7 million monthly listeners on Spotify.

Underwood’s Total Net Worth

Carrie Underwood is by far the richest American Idol winner. While Kelly Clarkson earns over half a million per episode on The Voice, and has sold over 28 million albums worldwide. Underwood has sold 66 million albums and is one of the best-selling female country touring artists of all time.

For the year of 2007, Forbes magazine reported Underwood’s earnings at just $7 million dollars that year. By 2009, she became the top earning American Idol alumnus with earnings of $14 million. Underwood continued to earn between $13-20 million per year until 2012, when she commenced the first leg of her “Blown Away Tour”, eventually grossing close to $60 million and bringing her career tour revenues to well over $100 million dollars. Her Play On Tour grossed $37 million. In 2013, Forbes named Underwood 46 on “The Celebrity 100” list, reporting that she earned more than $31 million between June 2012 and June 2013, becoming one of the ten highest-paid women in music that year.

Her compilation album Greatest Hits: Decade #1 debuted with the biggest sales debut for a hits collection in any music genre and the biggest first-week sales for a female hits album in any genre in over nine years. According to Forbes, she earned $64 million dollars from mid 2013 to mid 2017. Underwood is ranked among the thirteen all-genre top female touring artists of the twenty-first century by Pollstar. She is reported to have sold around 4.3 million concert tickets and grossed over $250 million with her headlined tours. In total, Carrie Underwood has earned estimated total career income of around $315 million dollars. Including her endorsements.

Of that amount, $12-22 million is expected to have been paid in business related costs. The remainder, $298 million, will have been taxed at a rate of around 44% as Underwood has been residing between Ottawa, Canada and in the state of Tennessee. Only in 2021, did Tennessee become a no income tax state. After tax, it is estimated that her career earnings are at around $166.88 million dollars, having paid $131.12 million dollars in taxes.

In 2007, rumors were circulating that Underwood was developing a romantic relationship with Dallas Cowboys quarterback Tony Romo. As quickly as her relationship had started, it was over before 2007 was out.

In 2009, Underwood began dating another professional sports star in hockey player Mike Fisher. She came out publicly with her new beau shouting out to him after winning the Academy of Country Music’s “Entertainer of the Year” award that year of 2009. An award Underwood won again in 2010, the only female country singer to ever win the award twice. A record that she broke in September 2020, becoming the first and only woman in history to win the award three times. In 2009, Underwood and Fisher tied the knot. They bought a mansion on eleven acres near Ottawa in the luxurious Spruce Ridge district and had two children together, Isaiah Michael and Jacob Bryan Fisher. After selling their Ottawa mansion for $2.2 million, in 2012, the couple bought a cottage outside of Nashville. 

In her personal life, Carrie has likely spent $7-8 million dollars of her career earnings, including her donations, but also probably possesses assets valued at around $2-3 million, not including investment assets. In her investments, she may have earned investment returns of $49-65 million dollars. Therefore, it is estimated that Carrie Underwood has a net worth of around $220 million dollars.

Summing-Up

Carrie Underwood first became famous as the winner of the fourth season of American Idol in 2005. However, unlike almost any other Idol winner, she went on to have an incredibly successful, long-term career. Her single “Inside Your Heaven” made the show’s history books as she became the only country artist to debut at number 1 on the Billboard Hot 100 chart; not to mention, the only solo country artist in the 2000s to have a number-one song on the Hot 100. Since then she has earned more money from her tours than almost any other country artist, regardless of gender, and has since ventured into fashion and writing. In 2015, she released the fitness clothing line CALIA by Carrie, and in 2020, she released the fitness and lifestyle book Find Your Path, which became a New York Times best-seller. Time magazine listed her one of the “100 Most Influential People” in 2014.

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