Watch Carter Faith's The Tonight Show Starring Jimmy Fallon Performance

Official Announcement | Published: Feb 26, 2026 11:16 AM EST

(MCA) Last night, rising star Carter Faith made her late-night TV debut, performing her acclaimed single, "If I Had Never Lost My Mind," on "The Tonight Show Starring Jimmy Fallon."

The performance continues a breakout year for Carter, who was recently unveiled as a member of Opry NextStage's Class of 2026, and continues her first-ever headline tour, The Cherry Valley Tour, with confirmed stops at Denver's Globe Hall, West Hollywood's Roxy and Nashville's Exit/In, among others.

Following her headline dates, Carter will join Post Malone on his upcoming U.S. Big Ass Stadium Tour and will perform select dates with George Strait and Chris Stapleton. See below for complete tour itinerary.

Carter's highly anticipated debut album, Cherry Valley, was released last fall via Gatsby Records/MCA to widespread critical acclaim. The LP was named to Rolling Stone's The Best 100 Albums of 2025, alongside additional accolades from Billboard, Stereogum, NPR Music, The Hollywood Reporter and many more. Carter will make her acting debut later this year in Netflix's film Heartland, starring alongside Academy Award-winner Jessica Chastain, and was named an Amazon Music Breakthrough Artist and Music Row's 2025 Discovery Artist of the Year.

Recently, Carter collaborated with Jimmy Fallon on their holiday single "Ugly Sweater"-which debuted on "The Tonight Show Starring Jimmy Fallon" this past Thanksgiving-and unveiled a new two-song holiday collection, A Cherry Valley Holiday.

Cherry Valley is a document of Carter's time in Nashville, working chronologically through her breakout successes and gut-punching breakups, new loves and family dustups. It's named for an imagined place, a road sign Carter once saw that came to signify her creative home, a sweet spot where her old school influences like Tammy Wynette, Nancy Sinatra, Pet Sounds and Revolver meet today's country. The album synthesizes all that into a signature Carter Faith sound.