Blown Away is the fourth studio album from American country music singer Carrie Underwood. It was released in the United States and Canada on May 1, 2012 by Arista Nashville.
The album debuted at number one on Billboard 200 with first-week sales of 267,000 copies. It became the third-largest opening of 2012. With Blown Away reaching number one, Underwood became the third female to chart at number one on the Billboard 200 with three country albums, tying her with Linda Ronstadt and Faith Hill. Like her three previous albums, Blown Away debuted at the top of the Country Albums chart, making Underwood the second artist to send his or her first four albums to number one, along with Miranda Lambert. The album remained at number one for a second week on the Billboard 200, becoming Underwood's first album to spend more than one week at the top.
The album was the seventh best selling album of 2012 in the US, being the second time Underwood has an album inside the top 10 albums since her debut album Some Hearts (2005) landed at number three in 2006. It was number two for country albums. Blown Away finished 2012 with over 1,400,000 copies sold worldwide, according to the International Federation of the Phonographic Industry. As of November 2014, Blown Away has sold 1,701,300 copies in the US.
In 2013, at the 55th Grammy Awards, Underwood won the Grammy Award for Best Country Solo Performance, for the album's second single, "Blown Away", which also won Best Country Song for its songwriters.