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2010 Academy Of Country Music Awards Nominees Announced

Published on March 03, 2010

Lady Antebellum, Miranda Lambert, Carrie Underwood and Zac Brown Band have topped the nominations for the 45th annual Academy of Country Music Awards, which were announced by Reba McEntire and Blake Shelton last night.

Lady Antebellum scored seven nominations. While Lambert and Underwood received six each nominations in five categories. Zac Brown also scored six nominations -  four as a member of the Zac Brown Band and another two as the group's producer.
 
Following for CMA Awards and Grammy success, Taylor Swift received a total of five nominations, including her first Entertainer of the Year nomination.
 
Under the ACM tally, artists receive multiple nominations in certain categories if they wrote the song or produced the recording.
 
Kenny Chesney's nominations include entertainer of the year (which he has already won four times) and top male vocalist. Brad Paisley is also nominated for the fan voted Entertainer of the Year and top male vocalist. His American Saturday Night is nominated for album of the year, and "Welcome to the Future" is competing for video of the year.
 
The other entertainer of the year nominees are Toby Keith, George Strait and Australia's Keith Urban. The three categories for newcomers - top new solo vocalist, vocal group and vocal duo - will also be opened up to fan voting. The winner in each of those three categories will then move on to compete for overall top new artist, another fan-voted category.
 
Reba McEntire will host the show live from the MGM Grand Garden Arena in Las Vegas USA on April 18.
 

Lady Antebellum Score Huge US Number One

Published on February 04, 2010

Current CMA Vocal Group Of The Year Lady Antebellum’s sophomore album Need To Know has scored the #1 spot on the Billboard Top 200 chart this week, with over 480,000 albums sales.

This follows the group's trophy for “Best Country Performance By A Duo or Group with Vocals" for their #1 hit 'I Run To You'. Additionally, following their performance of the title track and No. one smash “Need You Now,” the song shot straight to the top of the all-genre iTunes digital single chart in the US.
 
“We are absolutely stunned…the love and support we were feeling last week from the fans and everyone around us was so incredible,” said Lady Antelbellum’s Dave Haywood.  “These songs are about our lives…they’re really personal…and to be getting such awesome feedback from everyone who bought the record is so validating.  THANK YOU, Lady A fans…see you on the road soon!”
 
“We were so focused on making that GRAMMY performance the best it could possibly be,” remarked Hillary Scott.  “We put all of our emotions into it, and really just went for it.  We’ll never forget what an amazing week we had!”

Grammy Award Winners Announced

Published on February 01, 2010

Country Music has figured prominently at this year's GRAMMY Awards with Taylor Swift, Carrie Underwood, Zac Brown Band, Lady Antebellum, Randy Travis and Australia's Keith Urban amougst the winners.

Swift won GRAMMYS for Best Country Album, Best Country Song ('White Horse') and Best Female Country Vocal Performance ('White Horse'). She then won the biggest award of the night, Album Of The Year (all genres).

"I just hope that you know how much this means to me and Nathan [Chapman], my producer, and to all these musicians you see on this stage that we get to take this back to Nashville," she said.

"Oh my God, our families are freaking out in their living rooms! My dad and my little brother are losing their minds in the living room right now. This is for my dad. Thank you for all those times you said I could do whatever I wanted in life. And my mom, you're my best friend," said Swift.  

Zac Brown Band won Best New Artist among all genres, completing a great double for country music.

And Keith Urban won his third GRAMMY in the Best Male Country Vocal Performance category for 'Sweet Thing'.

Lady Antebellum won Best Country Performance By A Duo Or Group With Vocals for 'I Run To You' and Carrie Underwood and Randy Travis won Best Country Collaboration With Vocals for 'I Told You So'.

Visit www.grammys.com for the full list of winners.

Photos: Steve Granitz / WireImage.com

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