Congratulations to Carrie Underwood, who is the only country artist featured in TIME magazine’s 2014 list of The 100 Most Influential People in the World! The full list is in the May 5th issue of TIME, available on Friday, and online now at time.com/time100. TIME also chose guest contributors to offer tributes to the honorees, with Carrie’s tribute written by good friend and fellow star Brad Paisley. Check out Brad’s tribute to Carrie, online here!

• It was also announced today that Carrie will headline a performance as part of the TIME 100 Gala to be held on April 29th at Jazz at Lincoln Center in New York City. The black-tie dinner will include present and past honorees of the list; guests in prior years have included President Bill Clinton, Justin Timberlake, Oprah Winfrey, Gabrielle Giffords, Steven Spielberg, and many more.