Carrie Underwood Music

After performing her new single “I Told You So” from her latest album Carnival Ride at the Academy of Music Awards in Las Vegas, the season four winner of American Idol, country superstar Carrie Underwood bagged the biggest award in her career yet—Entertainer of the Year.

She was the first woman to be honored in nearly ten years. She broke Kenny Chesney’s winning streak (he’s won four times already). The last time a woman took home the award was in 2000, when Dixie Chicks held the title.

Underwood is now in the same league as other country superstars like Dolly Parton, Shania Twain, Loretta Lynn, and Reba McEntire.

Of all the blessings she’s had in her four-year career, “this one takes the cake,” according to the former Idol champion. While fighting back tears in her acceptance speech, she states how she never thought she would be nominated, much more win the prestigious award.

She also won Top Female Vocalist of the Year for the third straight time. And just recently, she graced The Oprah Winfrey Show together with three other country music superstars. She sat on the couch of media mogul Winfrey with Kenny Chesney, Sugarland, and Darius Rucker.

In the show, she sang one of her single, Just a Dream from Carnival Ride, and allowed cameras inside her song-writing and workout session.

Now, fresh from her historic ACM win, Underwood received two nominations from the Country Music Television Awards for Video of the Year and Female Video of the Year. She’s also recognized by People Magazine as one of the most beautiful people on the planet. She’s found a spot in the 2009 World’s Most Beautiful People, together with Halle Berry, Michelle Obama, Robert Pattinson, Taylor Swift, and Zac Efron among others.