The Country Thunder USA music festival near Dallas, Texas has been cancelled just days before the likes of Tim McGraw and Carrie Underwood were due to perform.

Poor ticket sales prompted organizers to scrap the four-day event.

It’s the second year in succession the festival has suffered - torrential rains prompted organizers to cancel one day of last year’s event.

Promoters insist the decision to cancel will not affect the Country Thunder festival taking place in Wisconsin in July.

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Fresh off her second consecutive win as Top Female Vocalist at the Academy of Country Music Awards, Carrie Underwood will return to the American Idol stage on Wednesday night to perform on the season 7 show finale.

The former Idol winner will sing her smash hit “Last Name.” Underwood is currently headlining her Carnival Ride tour with special guest Josh Turner. Her debut album, Some Hearts, was recently certified 7x-Platinum, becoming the best-selling solo female country debut in RIAA history. Some Hearts has also surpassed all other releases as the all-time U.S. top-selling album by any American Idol contestant.

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Country star Carrie Underwood has topped a new poll to find the most popular American Idol star ever.

The singer beat Kelly Clarkson in the new AOL Television hitlist, picking up 54 percent of the vote from 1.3 million fans who took part.

Clarkson was a distant second with 26 percent of the vote.

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Adding another notch on her I’m-way-more-successful-than-Kelly-Clarkson belt, country music sweetheart Carrie Underwood was inducted into the Grand Ole Opry Saturday night.

The American Idol season four champion and three-time Grammy Award winner told the sold-out crowd, “This really seems like a great family to be part of. I promise I’ll do everything I possibly can to not make you regret it.”

Country music star and Opry member Garth Brooks presented the award to Underwood, who is the current Female Vocalist of the Year for the Academy of Country Music and the Country Music Association. He told her, “Nothing will last as long or be more important than this award right here tonight. Congratulations.”

Membership to the Opry is invitation-only and based on the artist’s commitment to the show and overall contribution to country music. Underwood, 25, made her debut on the 83-year-old radio program in 2005, just two weeks after winning Idol. She’s currently on the road headlining her Carnival Ride tour.

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“Girls have it harder in country music - guys can be balding and overweight. But look at the women… I hire people to make me beautiful so I can keep up with everybody else.”

Carrie Underwood on the pressures of looking good.

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Carrie Underwood has named and shamed the boyfriend who was too embarrassed to be seen with her after a softball accident in a new magazine interview.

The pretty country star was left with a broken nose and two black eyes when the ball struck her squarely in the face - and her cruel boyfriend only made her feel worse.

She recalls, “I went on a date to the movies that night, and the guy wouldn’t even take me out to eat after.
“The next day he told everyone he was embarrassed to be seen with me.”

But Underwood has had the last laugh twice - snubbing the ex after she won American Idol and now naming him in an Instyle article.

She adds, “After Idol I went back home and signed autographs, and his younger siblings were there.’

“They said, ‘Do you remember Justin? He wanted us to give you his number.’ Guess what? I did not call him.”

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