The country winners at today's Billboard Music Awards in the US were as follows;

Top Billboard 200 Artist - Taylor Swift

Top Country Artist - Taylor Swift

Top Country Album - Taylor Swift - "Speak Now"

Top Country Song - Lady Antebellum - "Need You Now"

Entertainer of the Year - Taylor Swift

Top Male Vocalist - Brad Paisley

Top Female Vocalist - Miranda Lambert Top Vocal Duo - Sugarland 

Top Vocal Group - Lady Antebellum

Album of the Year - Need You Now, Lady Antebellum 

Single Record of the Year - 'The House That Built Me', Miranda Lambert

Top New Artist - The Band Perry

Song of the Year - 'The House That Built Me', Miranda Lambert

Vocal Event of the Year As She's Walking Away', Zac Brown Band and Alan Jackson 

Australian's Keith Urban has won his fourth GRAMMY award. Today he won the award for Best Male Country Vocal Performance.

Urban's Australian tour kicks off on April 8 at the Adelaide Entertainment Centre. The tour is being supported by Lady Antebellum who had a huge night at the GRAMMYS.. winning Song of the Year (All Genres), Record of the Year (all genres) and three other awards.

With prime time country music television specials and events proving so popular in the US, the FOX network introduced their very own American Country Awards this year and they were held today in Las Vegas. While unlikely to updtage the CMA Awards anytime soon, the event provided country music in the US with another opportunity to showcase their artists across the nation. The event was hosted by Trace Adkins.

The big winners on the night were Carrie Underwood with six wins (including "Artist of the Year") and new-comer Easton Corbin with three wins.

CMC will air the event in Australia on December 10. Check out some red carpet shots!

And the winners were...

Artist of the Year: Carrie Underwood
Artist of the Year: Male: Brad Paisley
Artist of the Year: Female: Carrie Underwood
Artist of the Year - Duo or Group: Lady Antebellum 
Artist of the Year: Breakthrough Artist: Easton Corbin 
Album of the Year: Play On, Carrie Underwood
Single of the Year: 'Need You Now,' Lady Antebellum
Single of the Year: Male: “Why Don’t We Just Dance,” Josh Turner
Single of the Year: Female: 'Cowboy Casanova,' Carrie Underwood
Single of the Year: Duo or Group: 'Need You Now,' Lady Antebellum
Single of the Year: Breakthrough Artist: 'Little More Country Than That,' Easton Corbin
Touring Headline Package of the Year: Carrie Underwood
Music Video of the Year: 'Hillbilly Bone,' Blake Shelton with Trace Adkins
Music Video: Male: 'Hillbilly Bone,' Blake Shelton with Trace Adkins
Music Video: Female: 'Cowboy Casanova,' Carrie Underwood
Music Video: Duo or Group: 'Need You Now,' Lady Antebellum
Music Video: Breakthrough Artist: 'A Little More Country Than That,' Easton Corbin
Greatest Hits Award: Alan Jackson
Decade Award: Rascal Flatts Video Visionary Award: Toby Keith

The 38th Annual American Music Awards have just completed in the US. The country catagory award winners were:

* Country Band, Duo or Group - Lady Antebellum (pictured above)
* Country Album - Carrie Underwood, Play On
* Country Female Artist - Taylor Swift
* Country Male Artist - Brad Paisley

Photo provided by the US Country Music Association

The CMA Awards have just concluded in Nashville and the winners are:

Entertainer of the Year: Brad Paisley

Female Vocalist of the Year: Miranda Lambert

Male Vocalist of the Year: Blake Shelton

New Artist of the Year: Zac Brown Band

Vocal Group of the Year: Lady Antebellum

Vocal Duo of the Year: Sugarland

Album of the Year: Revolution - Miranda Lambert (Produced by Frank Liddell and Mike Wrucke)

Single of the Year: 'Need You Now' - Lady Antebellum

Song of the Year: 'The House That Built Me' - Tom Douglas and Allen Shamblin

Musical Event of the Year: 'Hillbilly Bone' - Blake Shelton featuring Trace Adkins

Music Video of the Year: 'The House That Built Me' - Miranda Lambert, Directed by Trey Fanjoy

Musician of the Year: Mac McAnally - Guitar

Photo provided by the Country Music Association (US)

It was one for the record books when the final list of nominees for The 44^th Annual CMA Awards were announced today with fresh faces layered throughout the field of finalists vying for a coveted crystal trophy on what they call "Country Music's Biggest Night." 

Brad Paisley and Carrie Underwood and broadcast live in Australia on CMC from the Bridgestone Arena in Nashville at midday on Thurdsay November 11.  When the final nominations were tallied, Miranda Lambert led the list of finalists with nine nominations - the most for any female artist in the history of the CMA Awards. Alan Jackson received 10 nominations in 2002. Prior to that, Merle Haggard held the record with nine in 1970. 

Lambert received nominations for Entertainer; Female Vocalist; Album for Revolution; two for Single, 'The House That Built Me' and 'White Liar' Song for 'White Liar,' which she wrote with Natalie Hemby; Musical Event, for 'Bad Angel' with Dierks Bentley and Jamey Johnson; and two for Music Video of the Year for 'The House That Built Me' directed by Trey Fanjoy, and 'White Liar' directed by Chris Hicky. Lady Antebellum garnered the second highest number of CMA Awards nominations with five including Entertainer of the Year. Third on the list of nominees was Zac Brown Band and Blake Shelton with four nominations. 

In a major surprise, 2009 Entertainer of the Year and 2010 Grammy Album of the Year winner Taylor Swift was not nominated for the Entertainer of the Year award this time around.

Australia's Keith Urban received two nominations for Entertainer and Male Vocalist of the Year. Urban won Entertainer in 2005 and Male Vocalist of the Year three times (2004, 2005, and 2006).  The CMA Awards nominees and winners are determined by the 6,000 industry professional members of CMA. They include international voters. 

Click Here To See The Full List of 2010 CMA Awards Nominees

Despite awful flooding in Nashville less than a month ago, the CMA Music Festival kicked off in Music City today with over 40,000 people filling LP Field for the first night of stadium performances.

Tim McGraw gave Australian fans in attendance a sneak peak of what's to come when he tours Australia in September while Alan Jackson, Jason Aldean, Lady Antebellum (pictured above), Danny Gokey and The Oakridge Boys also performed.

Carrie Underwood completed the night with a blazing stadium set which included a performance of the classic song 'Paradise City' with Aldean.

Photo provided by the Country Music Association (USA).

Lady Antebullum have shown us the extent of the devestating Nashville floods in their latest webisode. Check it out below...

Carrie Underwood was the big winner at the 2010 Academy of Country Music Awards is Las Vegas last night. She won the fan-voted Entertainer of the Year award for the second time.

Miranda Lambert also had a huge night winning Female Vocalist of the Year, Video of the Year and Album of the Year for Reveloution.

The full list of winners were...

ENTERTAINER OF THE YEAR - Carrie Underwood
TOP MALE VOCALIST OF THE YEAR - Brad Paisley
TOP FEMALE VOCALIST OF THE YEAR - Miranda Lambert
TOP VOCAL GROUP OF THE YEAR - Lady Antebellum
TOP VOCAL DUO OF THE YEAR - Brooks & Dunn
TOP NEW ARTIST OF THE YEAR - Luke Bryan
ALBUM OF THE YEAR - Revolution – Miranda Lambert SINGLE RECORD OF THE YEAR - ’Need You Now’ – Lady Antebellum
SONG OF THE YEAR - 'Need You Now’ – Lady Antebellum
VIDEO OF THE YEAR - 'White Liar’ – Miranda Lambert
VOCAL EVENT OF THE YEAR - 'Hillbilly Bone’ – Blake Shelton featuring Trace Adkins