Ĭarson reprised her role as Evie in the 2017 sequel Descendants 2, for which she was nominated for an Imagen Award for Best Supporting Actress. In March 2016, The Hollywood Reporter announced that Carson landed the leading role in the fourth installment of the A Cinderella Story series, A Cinderella Story: If the Shoe Fits, directed by Michelle Johnston and produced by Dylan Sellers, which was released direct-to-video. Filming began in spring 2015, for an early 2016 television premiere.
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On January 9, 2015, Carson was cast in the co-lead role in the Disney Channel Original Movie Adventures in Babysitting. In 2014, she was cast in a starring role in the Disney Channel Original Movie Descendants, in which she plays Evie, the daughter of the Evil Queen from Snow White.
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A few months later, Carson was cast as recurring character Soleil on MTV's series Faking It. Television and film Ĭarson at the Golden Globe Awards in 2020.Ĭarson's acting career launched in 2014 when she guest-starred as Chelsea on the Disney Channel series Austin & Ally.
On September 2, 2021, Carson released "Glowin' Up" as a single as a part of the My Little Pony: A New Generation soundtrack, prior to the film's release on September 24. On May 2, 2021, Carson performed " A Whole New World" (from the 1992 film Aladdin) on American Idol with the show's nine finalists. The song was remixed by Tiësto his remix, "Fool's Gold (24 Karat Gold Edition)" was released on April 30, 2021. It reached number 38 on the Mainstream Top 40. On March 26, 2021, Carson released the single "Fool's Gold", produced by Stargate and Jeff Jones. Following the success of "Rumors", Carson collaborated again with R3hab in her next singles "I Luv U" and "Miss U More Than U Know". In 2018, Carson was featured on three EDM songs: R3hab's "Rumors", Alan Walker's "Different World" and Galantis's "San Francisco". "Back to Beautiful" was written by Julia Michaels, who also wrote Carson's next single, "Ins and Outs". On January 27, 2017, she released her single "Back to Beautiful" featuring Alan Walker, and on February 15, 2017, she released the official music video on YouTube. She performed " The Star-Spangled Banner" at the 2017 A Capitol Fourth, an annual concert at the United States Capitol in celebration of Independence Day. Carson has performed in NBC's 2015 Thanksgiving Parade, ABC's Disney Parks Christmas Celebration, Univision's Feliz 2016 (New Year's Eve Special), and the 2016 Radio Disney Music Awards, and she was a presenter on ABC's Disneyland 60th Anniversary Special. Carson released a promotional single on August 26, 2016, entitled " I'm Gonna Love You". Balvin, and a music video with Carson and Balvin was released for that version. "Love is the Name" had an alternate version featuring J. Her debut single was " Love Is the Name", an interpolation of Opus' " Live Is Life", and was released on April 8, 2016. In March 2016, Hollywood Records and Republic Records officially announced that Carson had signed a joint worldwide record deal with both companies. In an August 2015 interview Carson stated she was working on her first album. She was also featured on the Descendants 2 and Descendants 3 soundtracks, which reached numbers 6 and 7, respectively, on the Billboard 200.
She performed as part of the cast on the 2015 Descendants soundtrack, which reached number one on the Billboard 200, including her single version of " Rotten to the Core". In 2012, Carson signed with BMI as a "singer-songwriter". Carson said she is mainly influenced by pop music and admires artists who "tell stories through their music", cited 20th-century acts like The Beatles and Michael Jackson and modern acts like Ed Sheeran and Taylor Swift as influences.