Carrie Underwood’s sold-out Blown Away Tour arrives on DVD August 13 — The Blown Away Tour: LIVE
The highly anticipated concert DVD The Blown Away Tour: LIVE, featuring Carrie Underwood’s sold-out arena production, will be released on August 13 and is available for pre-order now. The concert was broadcast live earlier in the year on AXS TV, and this DVD brings the full live experience home with extended footage and exclusive bonus material.
What’s included on the DVD
Filmed in March in Ontario, California, The Blown Away Tour: LIVE captures more than twenty songs and includes performances of a dozen of Carrie Underwood’s #1 singles. Highlights from the set list include fan favorites such as “Before He Cheats,” “Jesus, Take the Wheel,” “Two Black Cadillacs,” and the title track “Blown Away,” the song that inspired the tour. The concert features nearly 100 minutes of full-band performance footage presented with high-quality DVD audio available in both Dolby® 5.1 surround sound and stereo.
In addition to the live concert, the DVD offers exclusive bonus content that gives viewers a behind-the-scenes look at the tour’s creation. Bonus material includes tour featurettes, candid interview footage with Carrie Underwood and Raj Kapoor, the tour director responsible for the large-scale production and theatrical effects, and a selection of music videos from Carrie’s Platinum-certified Blown Away album.
Production scale and spectacle
The Blown Away Tour was notable for its ambitious, state-of-the-art production design. The stage package included 575,424 individual LED lights integrated into 3,000 square feet of video walls, powered by more than 23,000 feet of cable and programmed to produce 172 different lighting colors. One of the tour’s signature moments featured Carrie and her band performing on a secondary stage that flew 150 feet above the audience, traveling at approximately 0.3 feet per second. That secondary stage weighed 5,890 pounds. To create the dramatic “Blown Away” tornado effect during shows, the tour used a total of 450 CO2 tanks and 222 nitrogen tanks over the life of the production.
Tour reach and ticket success
Launched in spring 2012 and running through May 23, 2013, the Blown Away Tour completed 112 dates across 110 cities, spanning six countries and three continents. The tour played to more than one million fans and sold out every concert on the schedule, confirming Carrie’s status as one of today’s premier touring artists.
Comparatively, Carrie’s previous headlining runs — the 2008 Carnival Ride Tour and the 2010 Play On Tour — combined for nearly 250 shows and attracted approximately 2.2 million fans. She ended 2008, 2010, and 2012 as the top female country touring artist, a milestone that contributed to her reputation for delivering consistently strong live performances.
Career achievements
Since releasing her debut album in 2005, Carrie Underwood has sold more than 15 million albums and achieved 17 #1 singles on the charts. Her Blown Away album reached Platinum status and made history by debuting at #1 on Billboard’s Top Country Albums chart; Carrie became only the second country artist in the chart’s history to have each of her first four albums debut at #1. Blown Away also debuted at #1 on the all-genre Billboard 200 chart, making her one of only two country artists to score three consecutive albums debuting at the top of that chart.
Carrie’s accolades include six GRAMMY® awards, two Academy of Country Music (ACM) Entertainer of the Year titles, and multiple honors from the Country Music Association and ACM as Female Vocalist. She’s also a proud member of the Grand Ole Opry, reflecting her deep ties to country music tradition and an impressive body of work across recording and live performance.
How to get the DVD
The Blown Away Tour: LIVE DVD offers fans a full concert experience, enhanced by behind-the-scenes content and music videos, all mixed in Dolby 5.1 and stereo audio. It is available for pre-order now at major retailers and will ship beginning August 13. This release is an essential item for Carrie Underwood fans and collectors of contemporary concert recordings, delivering both the bombastic production values of the live show and intimate moments that document the tour’s creative process.