This week, Carrie Underwood‘s album, Carnival Ride, picked up a whopping fourth number-one hit when “Just a Dream” topped the charts! While Carrie co-wrote the album’s first three number-ones — “So Small,” “All-American Girl,” and “Last Name” — “Just a Dream” is one that Carrie didn’t have a hand in writing…and that’s absolutely okay with her. In the case of “Just a Dream,” she feels that the writers crafted a song that truly deserved to be number-one. “It’s such a beautiful story,” she says of the bittersweet lyrics, and to be able to perform a song where people can relate or empathize in a meaningful way that can make an impact on their lives, those songs, Carrie believes, are “the ones that are really important.” (AUDIO INFO BELOW) 

• The beautiful video for “Just a Dream” is also number-one this week, topping GAC’s fan-voted Top 20 Country Countdown.

  Carrie Underwood talks about her latest number-one hit, “Just a Dream.” (:36)
“It’s such a beautiful story, and I feel like, I don’t know, those are the…the songs that are really meaningful are the songs that, you know, people can listen to, and it can, you know, it can change their lives, or it can make them see things in a different way, or it can make them feel better about a situation that they’re in, or they can empathize with it, or they can listen to it, and the song tells exactly what they went through. You know, those songs, when they get so close, when so many people like ’em and, you know, and hear them, it makes an impact on their life. Those are just the ones that are really important, and those are the ones that deserve to be a number-one.”