Julianne Hough earned a Creative Arts Primetime Emmy nomination in 2007 for choreography. ABC's 20/20 called her one of the "very best dancers on the planet." Julianne's brother, Derek Hough, is also on Dancing with the Stars and is a one-time winner himself. Hough was signed to Mercury Nashville Records in December 2007.
Her self-titled debut album was released May 20, 2008, debuting at #1 on the Billboard Country Album chart and #3 on the Billboard 200. It sold 67,000 copies its first week, and has sold over 300,000 total copies. On October 12, 2008, she released a holiday album, Sounds of the Season: The Julianne Hough Holiday Collection, which as of January 5, 2009 had sold 157,000 copies.
One of her earliest professional experiences was as an assistant choreographer on Gwen Stefani's Wind It Up music video.[citation needed] She was also featured in two television commercials and was an extra in an episode of Cold Case. She was also one of the "Million Dollar Dancers" in the short-lived network television game show Show Me the Money.
In the fourth season of the U.S. version of Dancing with the Stars, a televised ballroom dance competition, she won with her partner, Olympic gold medal-winning speed skater Apolo Anton Ohno, making Hough the youngest professional dancer to win on the program. On November 27, 2007, Hough and her partner, two-time Indianapolis 500 champion Hélio Castroneves, became the winners of Season 5. Hough returned for season 6 with radio host/comedian Adam Carolla, but they were eliminated in the fourth week. In July 2008, Hough was nominated at the 60th Primetime Emmy Awards in the category of "Outstanding Choreography" for her Mambo "Para Los Rumberos" (performed with partner Hélio Castroneves) on Dancing with the Stars, but lost to choreographer Wade Robson.
On August 25, 2008, the cast of season 7 was announced, and Hough was partnered with Hannah Montana actor Cody Linley. She was feeling stomach pains during her jitterbug performance and was immediately rushed to a hospital following the encore performance of her jitterbug with Cody. She subsequently had surgery to have her appendix removed on October 28, and now Linley and Hough "turned the time over to" Edyta Śliwińska. Hough hoped for a quick recovery so she could begin dancing again. She began training Cody again, but they were ultimately eliminated in the Semifinals Competition. She also appeared on the November 12 results show dancing the jive to Great Balls of Fire with her brother, Derek Hough, for the "Design-A-Dance" contest. Julianne and Derek were selected the favorite pros on the show by an online vote at ABC.com and won the honor of doing this special audience designed dance.
On November 20, 2008, Julianne told Ryan Seacrest on his radio show she would not be returning for the foreseeable future to Dancing with the Stars in order to further her country music career. However, she soon changed her mind, as evidenced in the February 8, 2009 announcement of the cast for the eighth season. Her boyfriend, country singer Chuck Wicks, will be a contestant on the show, and Hough will be partnered with him.
Hough's first country music single "Will You Dance With Me" was released to iTunes and Wal-Mart in May 2007 to raise money for the American Red Cross. The song peaked at #100 on the Billboard Pop 100 chart. Julianne Hough later signed with Universal Music Group Nashville.
Julianne Hough self-titled debut album was recorded in Nashville and produced by David Malloy, who has worked with Reba McEntire, Eddie Rabbitt, among others. Hough's album, which met with mixed reviews, debuted at #1 on the Top Country Albums chart on May 31, and also peaked at #3 on the Billboard 200. Hough's second single, and the first to be released to country radio, "That Song in My Head" debuted on the Country charts in March.
Hough joined Brad Paisley's 2008 Tour, along with Jewel and Chuck Wicks. Hough, Paisley and Willie Nelson appear in the video for the Snoop Dogg song "My Medicine". During 2009, Hough is headlining some of her own shows. Her first concert as the headlining act was in Green Bay, Wisconsin at the Meyer Theatre on January 15, 2009. Also during 2009 she will be the opening act for 2 shows on Toby Keith's Tour as well as the opening act for George Strait's Summer 2009 Tour.
Later in 2008, Hough released an EP of Christmas music called Sounds of the Season: The Julianne Hough Holiday Collection, which is available exclusively at Target stores.
Even later in 2008, Julianne stared in a Juicy Fruit commerical. She sings the jingle for the product, and dances in front of a yellow background.
On November 18, she performed her second single "My Hallelujah Song" at Dancing With the Stars, with her brother, Derek Hough, Mark Ballas and Lacey Schwimmer dancing. She also was eliminated off the show, being in 4th place.
February 11th, 2009, Julianne Hough, along with LeAnn Rimes, Jessica Simpson, and Kellie Pickler announced the 2009 Academy of Country Music Award nominees. Julianne Hough has been nominated for the Top New Female Vocalist award which will be a Fan-Voted award on GACTV.com.
On March 6, 2009, it was announced that Julianne Hough won the ACM Award for Top New Female Vocalist, and will now compete against Jake Owen and the Zac Brown Band for the title, Top New Artist, which will be announced April 5, 2009. This is another fan voted award, voting begins March 16, 2009 online. "I like Julianne Hough bikini"
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