Entertainment Tonight went behind the scenes of Carrie’s music video for “Cowboy Casanova” where Carrie had the chance to explain what the video was about, along with reveal some more info on Play On.

Carrie said that she was able to write a lot more for this album, which we knew, and confirmed that she would be working with some new writers that she hasn’t worked with in the past. It seems like she had a lot of fun with the acting involved in “Casanova” and of course, she looks great. Check it out!

Carrie Underwood’s official fan club has released the full track listing for “Play On,” still set for a November 3, 2009 release date.

The album will feature 13 songs, including “Cowboy Casanova,” which just had its official music video debut today. It’s almost here!

The full track listing will be as follows:

1. Cowboy Casanova
2. Quitter
3. Mama’s Song
4. Change
5. Undo It
6. Someday When I Stop Loving You
7. Songs Like This
8. Temporary Home
9. This Time
10. Look At Me
11. Unapologize
12. What Can I Say (featuring Sons of Sylvia, formerly known as the Clark Brothers from The Next Great American Band)
13. Play On

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After a leak onto YouTube earlier this week, Carrie Underwood’s official music video for huge hit “Cowboy Casanova” has been released on CMT.com and will be premiering on the channel this weekend.

Check it out below!

All controversy aside, Carrie Underwood’s “Cowboy Casanova” is already a smash hit after selling over 110,000 downloads in its first week (one of which was from us, of course).

Carrie remains the only country artist this year to top 100,000 digital sales for a single’s debut week this year. She’s done it twice with the “Goodbye Song” for American Idol – “Home Sweet Home” – and now with “Casanova.”

The song is already the fastest rising some of Carrie’s career and with the music video officially being released this Friday on CMT.com, “Play On” is on its way to a great start.

Perez Hilton broke a story this week (we won’t call it news) that Carrie’s “Cowboy Casanova” may have been plagiarized from a song by country unknown Brittany McDonald and her song “Bang.”

Apparently, one of the  songwriters (Brett James and Mike Elizondo), met with McDonald before the release of “Casanova,” heard the song, liked it, but the meeting didn’t go any further. Now, people are asking if the two songs sound a little too similar to be just a coincidence. “Casanova” is Carrie’s fastest selling single of her career and is the fastest selling Country single of 2009.

Sure, the songs sound very similar in the beginning and a line or two in the chorus, but we’re with the folks at Nashville Gab in thinking that it could be a case of a big stink about nothing. The songwriters might have had a tune in mind from “Bang,” but all out plagiarism? We think not.

Either way, take a listen!

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On tonight’s episode of Glee, Broadway superstar Kristin Chenoweth and the Glee cast covered Carrie Underwood’s “Last Name.”

While we love Carrie’s more, we have to say it was pretty good!

For those of you holding out on purchasing Carrie’s “Cowboy Casanova” now that it’s out on iTunes until the album comes out, you can stream Carrie’s latest single off Grooveshark where you can get an embed code for your own blog, Myspace page, or other Carrie fansite!

And of course, you can listen to it here or on Carrie’s official YouTube channel:

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The day has arrived! No, not that day.

But today, Carrie’s “Cowboy Casanova” is available for download at all major download outlets (iTunes, Amazon, Napster, Rhapsody, and the rest!), generally going for about $1.29 for the single.

Make sure download it and support Carrie’s latest single!

Carrie posed for the cameras after winning big at the 44th Annual Academy of Country Music Awards.

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arrie recently revealed that she would be doing more writing than she did on Some Hearts or Carnival Ride for her upcoming album Play On, which is already off to a good start with “Cowboy Casanova” debuting high on the country music charts.

While Carrie has done some writing in the past on her previous albums (including #1 single “All-American Girl”) ,  she’s definitely getting more comfortable with the role now that she’s doing it for the third time around.

“I feel like I’m a lot more comfortable with myself as a writer,” Underwood said.

“That just happens — the more you do it, the easier it gets, I suppose. So I branched out and wrote with a lot of people that I’d never met before — people who weren’t even necessarily involved in country music.”

Among those Carrie is collaborating with is Zac Maloy, former lead singer of Oklahoma City and The Nixons, who Carrie admitted she saw in concert in high school.

Of course, we can’t wait for Play On, but we can listen to “Cowboy Casanova” in the meantime!

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