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Carrie Underwood is the new voice of `Sunday Night Football's` opening theme, `Waiting All Day for Sunday Night.` (photo by A James White)
Carrie Underwood is the new voice of "Sunday Night Football's" opening theme, "Waiting All Day for Sunday Night." (photo by A James White)

Carrie Underwood to perform 'Sunday Night Football' opening theme on NBC

by jmaloni

Press release

Tue, May 7th 2013 08:15 pm

Grammy Award-winning artist records "Sunday Night Football" opening theme "Waiting All Day for Sunday Night"

NBC has selected six-time Grammy Award-winner and multi-platinum recording artist Carrie Underwood to perform "Waiting All Day for Sunday Night," the opening theme for primetime television's No. 1 program, "Sunday Night Football" on NBC.

Country music superstar Underwood, the season-four winner of "American Idol," makes her "Sunday Night Football" debut on Sunday, Sept. 8, on NBC's first "SNF" broadcast of the 2013 NFL season, a heated NFC East rivalry between the Dallas Cowboys and the New York Giants.

The opening theme will continue each week kicking off "Sunday Night Football" throughout the NFL season on NBC.

"I am thrilled to be a part of NBC's 'Sunday Night Football' and am so honored they asked me," Underwood said. "I have always loved football season, and it is so exciting to now become part of it every Sunday night!"

Since winning "American Idol" and releasing her debut album in 2005, Underwood has sold more than 15 million albums, and placed 17 No. 1 singles on the charts. Her recent album, "Blown Away," made history by debuting at No. 1 on Billboard's Top Country Albums Chart, making Underwood only the second country artist in the 47-year history of the chart to have each of her first four albums debut at No. 1.

"Carrie Underwood was our first and only choice to perform the 'Sunday Night Football' opening," said "Sunday Night Football" producer Fred Gaudelli. "She's one of America's most popular entertainers and the perfect fit for our show."

The now platinum-selling "Blown Away" album also debuted at No. 1 on the all-genre Billboard 200 chart, making Underwood only the second country artist in history to have three consecutive albums debut at No. 1. She is a six-time Grammy winner, a two-time Academy of Country Music Entertainer of the Year, a three-time Country Music Association and ACM Female Vocalist winner, and a proud member of the Grand Ole Opry.

"Waiting All Day for Sunday Night" is set to the original Joan Jett song "I Hate Myself for Loving You," and marks Underwood's first production with NBC Sports. From 2007-12, the song was performed by music superstar Faith Hill and, in 2006, the inaugural season of "Sunday Night Football," Pink performed the open.

Underwood is currently headlining and selling out arenas across North America on her "Blown Away Tour." The show, which launched last June, has played in the U.S., Canada, the U.K., Ireland and Australia, and will perform a total of 112 dates by the time is wraps on May 23 in Abbotsford, British Columbia.

"Sunday Night Football," which averaged 21.8 million viewers in the 2012 season, is primetime television's No. 1 program.

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