Congratulations to Carrie Underwood, whose Blown Away album officially became a million-seller this week, certified Platinum, as the album shot back to number-one on Billboard‘s Top Country Albums sales chart! Seeing fans embrace her new music is obviously a very rewarding feeling for Carrie, who says she worked really hard to make an album filled not only with great songs, but also a lot of variety. (AUDIO INFO BELOW)

• Carrie’s red-hot on the radio with “Blown Away,” the title track and second smash from her latest album, also home to her chart-topping favorite, “Good Girl.”
• This week, Carrie’s “Blown Away” single advanced to the Top 10 on Billboard‘s Hot Country Songs chart, meaning that all 16 of Carrie’s country radio singles have now hit the chart’s Top 10, which Billboard reports is a first among women in the chart’s 68-year history! Way to go, Carrie!
• And further congratulations go out to Carrie on her CMA Awards nomination this week! She’s up for Female Vocalist of the Year! Carrie and Brad Paisley return for a fifth year as hosts of the big show when The 46th Annual CMA Awards airs live from Nashville on November 1st, at 8pm, ET, on ABC.

  Carrie Underwood worked to fill her Blown Away album not only with great songs, but also a lot of variety. (1:10)
“As different as every song on this album is from the one right before it, there were other ones that were like, even further out there. And it’s really important to me to give as much variety as I can in one CD and still make it all work together. You know, it’s this crazy puzzle, and you gotta figure out what pieces need to be in it, where they need to go, and what the song needs to be in between for it to like really make sense and feel good. And I have songs that are a bit darker, I have songs that are light and airy and earthy and happy sing-along songs, you know? I have a couple silly songs, I have some more traditional country songs than I’ve ever done before, you know, steel guitar, fiddles, Brad Paisley playin’ guitar, like, it’s country — and I’m so lucky I feel like I can do all of that in one CD, in one album, and people can get as much bang for their buck, you know? It’s not one or two singles and then a bunch of album tracks. These are all different, individual, awesome songs.”