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Carrie Underwood Teams With Amazon For ‘Favorite Time Of Year’

Carrie Underwood released an original holiday song “Favorite Time of Year” exclusively with Amazon Music. The Amazon Original song is now available to stream individually and will also appear as…

Carrie Underwood Teams With Amazon For 'Favorite Time Of Year'
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Carrie Underwood released an original holiday song “Favorite Time of Year” exclusively with Amazon Music. The Amazon Original song is now available to stream individually and will also appear as a bonus track on Amazon Music’s version of her debut Christmas album, My Gift.

Carrie said, “‘Favorite Time of Year’ is a joyful, super happy and fun Christmas song because it is about all of the things that make you happy this time of year, and it puts you in the mood to celebrate. I can’t help but smile when I sing it, it just brightens my day and I’m thrilled to share it only on Amazon Music.”

The new original song was written by Underwood, Hillary Lindsey, and Chris DeStefano.

Carrie has also teamed up with Amazon’s “Delivering Smiles” holiday campaign, to give back to the community through the Monroe Carell Jr. Children’s Hospital at Vanderbilt. This is a part of a larger Delivering Smiles holiday campaign recently announced, with Amazon donating millions of items through product and monetary donations to over one thousand charities worldwide.

Underwood and “Favorite Time of Year” will also be featured in Ring’s brand-new Doorbell Season holiday campaign airing across national TV and online. In addition, fans are encouraged to sing along to “Favorite Time of the Year” and capture their fun, festive videos on their Ring Video Doorbells and share them with friends and family.

Nancy Brooks has been working in the country music industry for almost 30 years. She has interviewed pretty much any country star you can think of. In the late 1990s, she started working with Dolly Parton. And yes, Nancy reports that Parton is as sweet as you would think. She loves her life in country music and has been backstage at every CMA Awards show since the late 1990s. Many of her stories are from her one-on-one interviews. She was there at the beginning of the incredible careers of many music superstars today, including Taylor Swift, Shania Twain, and Blake Shelton, and has interviewed them multiple times throughout the years.