Carlos Pena NOW
 
_When many of you tried to visit the website today, you didn't see what you're accustomed to seeing, instead you saw this slightly altered homepage with a special message. 
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But as many of you figured, it was all an April Fool’s joke!

Shoutout, however, to a lot of our fans who freaked out and offered to takeover the website. We realized how much you guys love us, and that was nice to see. No worries though! We’re here for you for all of your Carlos and Big Time Rush news, pictures, and videos!

That was fun - now back to the updates you've come to know and love from Carlos Pena NOW! Happy April Fools Day!

- CPN Team
 
 
It was a big year in stories on CPN in 2012! For the majority of this year, we had our most viewed year yet with the most popular stories we've ever had. Here's a look at the top 12 stories we posted on the site this year, based on the number of page views from January 1, 2012 until today (December 26).


While in Montreal, Big Time Rush did an interview with Virgin Radio 96, a local radio station. The 7 minute long interview was pretty great. 

 
 
We have a slightly new look here at Carlos Pena NOW! This time with the new look comes a redesigned homepage aimed to make it your one-stop source for everything Carlos Pena and Big Time Rush related. Let us walk you through some of our new features. 

 
 
Hey Pena Nation! There was apparently some kind of issue with the Site Choice Awards website so they ended up having to cut it short and because we had the most votes of all fansites in the semi-finals, they declared CPN the winner on their Twitter page! So thank you very much for voting for us and, as always, thanks for visiting CPN! We really appreciate that so many of you visit the site on a daily basis and use us as your source for the latest Carlos Pena and Big Time Rush news.

Once again, thanks for voting us Best Fansite, we think it's pretty cool!  
 
 
Carlos’ birthday is a little under one month from today, August 15th. Carlos Pena NOW has decided to do something a little different this year and create one huge card for Carlos' 23rd birthday from his fans! We used GroupCard.com to produce a card that everyone can sign for FREE! Feel free to leave Carlos a birthday message. As we get closer to his birthday, we will tweet him the link so he can see it. We will also be posting the final card right here on the website.

Also, feel free to invite your friends to sign the card! Just click the “invite signers” link on the left side of the page and you can post about the card on your Facebook and Twitter pages or even email your friends.

CLICK HERE TO SIGN THE CARD

PLEASE SIGN THE CARD ONLY ONCE - ANY DUPLICATES FOUND OR REPORTED WILL BE DELETED.

 
 
Thanks to all of you who voted in Round 1, CPN has officially made it into Round 2 of the Best Fansite competition in the Site Choice Awards! If you would like to help us move on to the finals you can vote for us on SiteChoiceAwards.com under the "Best Fansite #2" category. 

Note: There's once again a slight typo in our URL address on the site, they have it labeled CarlosPeenaNow.com, but it's our site.

So if you would like to vote for us in this round, you can click the link below. And if you want, let your friends know too. As always, thanks for visiting CPN! We really appreciate it! 
 
 
This was unexpected, but we thought it was pretty cool! We found out last night that our website has been nominated in the Site Choice Awards! We were apparently nominated by a few visitors, so to those of you that did that, THANK YOU! You can vote for us under the "Best Fansite #4" category. 

Note: There's a slight typo in our URL address on the site, they have it labeled CarlosPeenaNow.com, but it's safe to say that's our site. 

So if you would like to vote for us in this round, you can click the link below. And if you want, let your friends know too. As always, thanks for visiting CPN! We really appreciate it! 
 
 
We're less than 40 days away from the premiere of the biggest movie of the year, Big Time Movie! CPN has been posting everything to do with the movie and now we got a whole section dedicated to it! On the page you will find everything you want to know about the movie including the cast, crew, promotion tools, links to all the articles/videos/pictures we've posted about the movie, and more! Check out the new page HERE! You will also be able to access the page anytime by clicking on CPN's Big Time Movie promo ads. 

Don't forget to tune in on March 10th on Nickelodeon! Carlos Pena NOW is your Big Time Movie Headquarters! 
 
 
EDIT: CONTEST IS NOW CLOSED. Congrats @omgSCHMIDTSTER for winning!

Can you believe it's already the LAST DAY of the 12 Days of BTR Giveaways?! For today's contest @MNBigTimeRush has a AUTOGRAPHED VIP POSTER to giveaway and all you gotta do is comment on this post with the following:
   - Your favorite Big Time Rush guy
   - Your favorite Big Time Rush song
   - Your favorite Big Time Rush episode
   - Why should you win.
   - Your Twitter Username

The best comment wins! Deadline is 8PM EASTERN on December 31, 2011.

Ready? GO!
 
 
Hey Pena Nation! As a fansite, we don't post much personal things on here, but I thought this was cool. 1 year ago today, December 26, 2010 a new Big Time Rush fanpage opened up on Twitter, CarlosPenaCrew was the username and now under a new name, that same fanpage has grown to become the biggest fanpage for Big Time Rush on Twitter and into a fast growing website that has become THE source that thousands turn to for fast, accurate, and reliable information for Carlos Pena & Big Time Rush. 

I wanted to take a moment to thank YOU the visitors and contributors of CarlosPenaNOW.com! Without you and your constant promotion of the website & Twitter page there's no way it could be as successful as it has been. It's been a fun year running the Twitter page and creating the whole Pena Nation name! I look forward to many more great months ahead and celebrating the 1 year anniversary of the website in June!