Her debut album Some Hearts became the best-selling solo female debut album in country music history, the fastest selling debut country album in Nielsen SoundScan history and the best-selling country album of the last 14 years. She received enough votes to advance to the Finale.Ĭarrie sang " Inside Your Heaven", "Independence Day" by Martina McBride and "Angels Brought Me Here" by Guy Sebastian.Īfter her Top 11 performance, Simon Cowell made a prediction that not only would she win but that she would outsell any past Idol alum. She received enough votes to be considered "safe" for another week.Ĭarrie sang "Crying" by Roy Orbison, "Making Love Out of Nothing at All" by Air Supply and "Man! I Feel Like a Woman!" by Shania Twain (as chosen by Randy Jackson). She received enough votes to be considered "safe" for another week.Ĭarrie sang "Sin Wagon" by Dixie Chicks and "If You Don't Know Me by Now" by Harold Melvin & The Blue Notes. She received enough votes to be considered "safe" for another week.Ĭarrie sang "Trouble" by Elvis Presley and "Bless the Broken Road" by Rascal Flatts. She received enough votes to be considered "safe" for another week.Ĭarrie sang "When God-Fearin' Women Get the Blues" by Martina McBride. She received enough votes to be considered "safe" for another week.Ĭarrie sang "MacArthur Park" by Richard Harris. She received enough votes to be considered "safe" for another week.Ĭarrie sang "Love is a Battlefield" by Pat Benatar.
She received enough votes to be considered "safe" for another week.Ĭarrie sang "Hello, Young Lovers" by Gertrude Lawrence from The King and I. She received enough votes to be considered "safe" for that week.Ĭarrie sang "Independence Day" by Martina McBride. She received enough votes to be considered "safe" for another week.Ĭarrie sang "Alone" by Heart. She received enough votes to make the Top 12.Ĭarrie sang "When I Will Be Loved" by The Everly Brothers. She received enough votes to be considered "safe" for another week.Ĭarrie sang "Because You Love Me" by Jo Dee Messina. She received enough votes to be considered "safe" for another week.Ĭarrie sang "Piece of My Heart" by Erma Franklin. During the judges' final deliberation, it was revealed that she did enough to land a spot in the Top 24.Ĭarrie sang "Could've Been" by Tiffany. She did enough to progress, along with Jamar Jefferson, Mario Vazquez, Matthew Kester, Constantine Maroulis, Judd Harris, David Brown, Anwar Robinson, Janay Castine and Vonzell Solomon. On the final day of Hollywood Week, she was shown singing "Independence Day" by Martina McBride. She was shown in the group round with Lakeisha Taylor and Vonzell Solomon she did enough to advance. The judges told her that she did enough to advance. All three judges voted "yes", sending her to the next round.Ĭarrie was shown in the first televised Group of Ten singing "Young Hearts Run Free" by Candi Staton she wa shown in the same group of 10 as Jaclyn Crum, Sarah Mather and Tamesha Foote. She sang "I Can't Make You Love Me" by Bonnie Raitt. "I still enjoy going out on the road and travelling and getting on the bus and hanging out with my guys, I still enjoy that too much to postpone it and kind of just play here, but you know, I think at some point down the road it's something I would be open to and we will kind of just see where it goes.Carrie auditioned in St. "Maybe, I think that's something that, you know, I would entertain a little bit down the road," he comments.
But it's been great, you know, it's been fun and just a testament to our songs that we have put out throughout the years, the fans and how well they support us and it's been great."Īs for the possibility of a Las Vegas residency in the future, Aldean didn't shut the idea down. "We get to come and be a part of these things and it's just a big honor for me just to still kind of be around and and a lot of times I still feel like I am the new kid on the block, which I know I am not. "Well first of all it's crazy that I have been allowed to make 10 records over the years, you know, and that I am still, you know, out there and can still put out songs that people seem to still react to," he shares.