CSPC: Carrie Underwood Popularity Analysis

CARRIE UNDERWOOD CAREER CSPC RESULTS

So, after checking all the figures, how many overall equivalent album sales has each album by Carrie Underwood achieved? Well, at this point we hardly need to add up all of the figures defined in this article!

In the following results table, all categories display figures in equivalent album sales. If different, pure sales are listed between parentheses.

artist_spotify_id	#	Cover	Album	Studio albums (EAS)	sales_update_date	Other LPs (EAS)	Physical singles (units sold)	Digital singles (units sold)	Streams	Streams increase	Total EAS	valid_as_of	streams_updated_value	album_id
4xFUf1FHVy696Q1JQZMTRj	1		Some Hearts	8,610,000	09.09.18	228,000	150,000 (500,000)	2,205,000 (14,700,000)	903,000 (09/27/23)	Av.: 360 LD: 620	12,096,000	20,230,927	903,000	672
4xFUf1FHVy696Q1JQZMTRj	2		Carnival Ride	3,790,000	09.09.18	124,000	0 (0)	1,547,000 (10,310,000)	334,000 (09/27/23)	Av.: 110 LD: 120	5,795,000	20,230,927	334,000	673
4xFUf1FHVy696Q1JQZMTRj	3		Play On	2,580,000	09.09.18	112,000	0 (0)	1,248,000 (8,320,000)	328,000 (09/27/23)	Av.: 100 LD: 120	4,268,000	20,230,927	328,000	674
4xFUf1FHVy696Q1JQZMTRj	4		Blown Away	2,110,000	09.09.18	229,000	0 (0)	1,302,000 (8,680,000)	481,000 (09/27/23)	Av.: 130 LD: 130	4,122,000	20,230,927	481,000	675
4xFUf1FHVy696Q1JQZMTRj	5		Storyteller	960,000	09.09.18	0	0 (0)	350,000 (2,330,000)	508,000 (09/27/23)	Av.: 140 LD: 130	1,818,000	20,230,927	508,000	676
4xFUf1FHVy696Q1JQZMTRj	6		Cry Pretty	0	09.09.18	0	0 (0)	93,000 (620,000)	486,000 (09/27/23)	Av.: 240 LD: 110	579,000	20,230,927	486,000	677
4xFUf1FHVy696Q1JQZMTRj	7		Denim & Rhinestones	0		0	0 (0)	0 (0)	101,000 (09/27/23)	Av.: 0 LD: 0	101,000	20,230,927	101,000	0
4xFUf1FHVy696Q1JQZMTRj	8		My Savior	0		0	0 (0)	0 (0)	48,000 (09/27/23)	Av.: 0 LD: 0	48,000	20,230,927	48,000	0
4xFUf1FHVy696Q1JQZMTRj	9		My Gift	0		0	0 (0)	0 (0)	58,000 (09/27/23)	Av.: 0 LD: 0	58,000	20,230,927	58,000	0
4xFUf1FHVy696Q1JQZMTRj	10		Orphan	0	09.09.18	146,000	0 (0)	1,416,000 (9,440,000)	335,000 (09/09/18)	N/A	1,897,000	20,230,927	335,000	1,641

As a reminder:

• Studio Album: sales of the original album
• Other Releases: sales of compilations generated thanks to the album
• Physical Singles: sales of physical singles from the album (ratio 3/10)
• Download Singles: sales of digital singles from the album (ratio 1,5/10)
• Streaming: equivalent album sales of all the album tracks (ratio 1/1500 for Audio stream and 1/6750 for Video stream)

See where the artist ranks among remaining singers

Conclusions

Country artists are their sales strongly limited due to their low appeal outside of the US. It downgrades expectations for them. With this in mind, results of Underwood‘s first 4 albums are superb. The debut Some Hearts cracks the 8 digits mark with ease at 11,4 million EAS to date. It continues to do well on all formats.

Carnival Ride, Play On and Blown Away are in the 3,9-5,6 million EAS range. Released during the digital era, they still did well mostly on the back of pure sales. Then came Storyteller that while not a disaster broke a good part of her momentum.

Cry Pretty faces the challenge of becoming her first album to out-perform its predecessor. Released next week, it has amassed 144,000 EAS up to now thanks to downloads and streams of its first two singles.

With a total of 28,58 million equivalent album sales to date. Underwood isn’t among the very top selling acts of the last 15 years globally, but for sure is in the US. Still only 35, she has many more years as an active singer in front of her. For how long will she continue to be a relevant seller though? The answer at the moment is anyone’s guess.

To go deeper…

Thanks to our new ASR (Artist Success Rating) concept, we know that her sales represent 8,81 million times the purchase of her full catalog. Coupled with her total sales, it translates into an ASR score of 90. She just ahead of Sam Smith and just behind Miley Cyrus.

Additionally, the following pages list her most successful songs as well as her records and achievements. Do not forget to check our amazing cross-artists lists posted inside the CSPC: Data Collector which includes the full listing of all CSPC results compiled so far.

As usual, feel free to comment and / or ask a question!

Sources: IFPI, Spotify, YouTube, Discogs, Chartmasters.org.