Carrie Underwood records contestant farewell song for “American Idol”

Posted by brandy

on March 10, 2009M at 3:10 pm

Carrie Underwood (The Oklahoman Archives)

Season 4 “American Idol” winner, four-time Grammy winner and 2009 Academy of Country Music Entertainer of the Year nominee Carrie Underwood has recorded a song for the new season of “American Idol.”

The song, a remake of Mötley Crüe’s “Home Sweet Home,” will air each week as the farewell theme for contestants leaving the show. The song will make its debut on “American Idol” Wednesday, as the next contestant becomes eliminated from the show, according to a news release.

“Home Sweet Home” will release as a digital single, found exclusively at iTunes through March 16, and will subsequently be available at online music retailers everywhere.

The release of the single will support a cause dear to the Checotah native’s heart: Underwood, 19 Recordings and Sony Music Nashville will donate a portion of the sales proceeds from “Home Sweet Home” to The Humane Society of the United States (www.hsus.org).

A longtime supporter of The Humane Society, Underwood says in the release, “I’ve always loved this song, and besides being very fitting for ‘Idol,’ to me, the title is also very fitting with animal rescue and finding animals their own homes. So we felt it was important to tie the release into an amazing animal charity like the HSUS.”

“Home Sweet Home” joins a list of such past “Idol “send-off songs as Daniel Powter’s “Bad Day,” Chris Daughtry’s “Home,” and Ruben Studdard’s re-working of the Kenny Loggins favorite, “Celebrate Me Home.”

Since winning “American Idol” in 2005, Underwood has become one of the most popular performers in the nation. Her debut album, “Some Hearts,” is the biggest selling “American Idol” debut project to date, having sold more than 7 million copies in the United States. With the release of her current album, “Carnival Ride,” which is nomianted for ACM album of the year, she has now sold 10 million albums in just over three years and has notched nine No. 1 singles. Underwood is currently climbing the country airplay charts with her most recent smash, “I Told You So,” also from “Carnival Ride.”

-BAM

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