Song will appear on forthcoming album

Carrie Underwood is set to release “Ghost Story,” a new single to country radio and digital outlets, on Friday, March 18th. Underwood began teasing the news earlier this month with a picture of her in the studio. On Monday (Mar 14th), she shared a cryptic five second clip of the song with eyeball Emojis. Today (Tues, Mar 15th), she provided a ten second teaser with a script text of the song’s title.

The single follows last week’s win for ACM Single of the Year with Jason Aldean for their “If I Didn’t Love You” duet. She teased the new music during a post show interview after I asked her when fans may expect new music.

“I’m always always working on something. Obviously, we can’t spill too many beans right now, but my fans know what I mean when I say, ‘Soon… soon,'” she says with a laugh. “They actually hate it when I use that word because they’re like ‘What does that mean?’ but it’s been busy for sure.”

The song will likely appear on her seventh country studio record, and ninth overall, which is expected later this year.

The 7x Grammy winner’s last country effort was 2018’s Cry Pretty which followed with her critically-acclaimed all female Cry Pretty 360 Tour in 2019. Cry Pretty became her seventh platinum or multi-platinum album and debuted at No. 1 on the Billboard 200 chart, cementing her place in history as the only woman to land four country albums at the top of the all-genre chart.

She followed with two religious projects, My Gift in 2020 and My Savior in 2021. Upon its release, My Gift debuted at No. 1 across multiple global charts, including Billboard Country, Christian and Holiday charts. The album remained at No. 1 on the Christian chart 11 weeks after it was released and debuted No. 1 on the UK country chart (her fifth No. 1 on the chart) and No. 1 on the Canadian country chart.

My Savior also debuted at No. 1 on the Billboard Country and Christian Charts, as well as No. 4 on the Billboard 200 chart. The project became Underwood’s ninth consecutive album to debut at No. 1 on the Billboard Country Chart – extending her record as the only country artist to achieve that feat with all nine of her studio album releases from the beginning of her career.

Underwood is currently headlining Reflection: The Las Vegas Residency at Resorts World on the Strip.

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