Luke Bryan photo courtesy of Capitol Nashville; Joey + Rory photo courtesy of Sugar Hill Records; Gloriana photo courtesy of Emblem Records.
It’s official! The Academy of Country Music and GAC are proud to present the winners of this year’s ACM New Artist categories. Luke Bryan, Gloriana and Joey + Rory have been named Top New Solo Vocalist, Top New Vocal Group and Top New Vocal Duo, respectively. For each, this represents their first win for an Academy of Country Music Award. All three winners are now nominees for the Top New Artist award, which will be given out on the 45th Annual Academy of Country Music Awards, to be broadcast LIVE from the MGM Grand Garden Arena in Las Vegas on April 18, 2010 at 8 p.m. ET/delayed PT on CBS. Continue Reading
In case you missed it, the nominees for the 45th Annual Academy of Country Music Awards show were announced yesterday by Reba McEntire & Blake Shelton during a special segment on the CBS program, The Early Show. Reba and Blake not only announced the nominees but were also honored with nominations themselves — Reba for Top Female Vocalist of the Year, and Blake for Vocal Event of the Year for his duet with Trace Adkins, “Hillbilly Bone.“ The ACM Awards will air live from the MGM Grand Garden Arena in Las Vegas on Sunday, April 8 at p.m. ET (delayed PT) on CBS and will be hosted by Reba for the 12th time.
Check out this clip provided courtesy of the Academy of Country Music. Blake Shelton takes you behind the scenes on the set of The Early Show and chats it up with Reba about their nominations, providing some nice comic relief along the way! Continue Reading
Lady Antebellum heard their name called a whopping seven times this morning as Blake Shelton and Reba McEntire announced the nominees for the 45th Annual Academy of Country Music Awards on the CBS program, The Early Show. The ACM Awards will air live from the MGM Grand Garden Arena in Las Vegas on Sunday, April 8 at p.m. ET (delayed PT) on CBS and will be hosted by Reba for the 12th time.
For the third year, fans will select the winner of the Academy’s most prestigious honor, Entertainer of the Year and for the second year, the three newcomer categories for the annual Academy of Country Music Awards —Top New Solo Vocalist, Top New Vocal Group and Top New Vocal Duo — will also be opened up to fan voting. The winner in each Top New category will then move on to compete for Top New Artist which is also a fan voted category. Online voting for all fan voted categories will be available at http://www.voteacm.com/. The winners of Entertainer of the Year and Top New Artist will be announcedlive during the 45th Annual Academy of Country Music Awards.
Lady A’s seven nominations include Album of the Year for Lady Antebellum and Top Vocal Group. In addition, the trio was nominated for Single Record of the Year, Song of the Year and Video of the Year for “Need You Now.” They were also nominated as a producer for Single Record of the Year and as a composer for Song of the Year. Continue Reading
Blake Shelton photo courtesy of Warner Bros. Nashville.
It’s safe to say Blake Shelton’s having one of the best days of his life today. This morning, he announced the nominees for the 45th Annual ACM Awards with pal Reba McEntire — and heard his name announced as a nominee for Vocal Event of the Year for his duet with Trace Adkins — and the title cut from his new EP — “Hillbilly Bone.”
“This is the best day of my life – I got to read the nominations with the ‘queen of country music,’ Reba,” said Shelton. “And, then I find out ‘Hillbilly Bone’ is nominated! I’m glad that my first nomination in years is with one of my great friends, Trace Adkins. The only thing that could make this day better is if Betty White was there to give me the award should I win!”
Hillbilly Bone is in stores now. Click here to enter our “Blake Shelton Six Pak Sweepstakes” for your chance to win an autographed guitar, all of his albums, a T-shirt and more – and click on the clip below to find out why Blake prefers making EPs to full-length CDs.
Once again Great American Country and the Academy of Country Music have teamed up to give fans the opportunity to pick their favorite stars for the 45th Academy of Country Music Awards’ three newcomer categories including Top New Solo Vocalist, Top New Vocal Duo and Top New Vocal Group. Fans can start voting online today and are allowed to submit one ballot, selecting their favorite artist from each of the categories. Voting ends on March 12, 2010 at 5 p.m. ET.
The Academy of Country Music and Great American Country (GAC) announced today that for the second year, the three newcomer categories for the Academy of Country Music Awards— Top New Solo Vocalist, Top New Vocal Duo and Top New Vocal Group —will be opened up to interactive fan voting through VoteACM.com. As previously announced, the Top New Solo Vocalist category will take the place of the Top New Male Vocalist and Top New Female Vocalist categories.
Following is the list of final nominees in the Top New categories that the Academy announced today: Continue Reading
GAC's Bill Cody (r) chats with Randy Travis and Carrie Underwood on the red carpet at the second annual ACM Honors. Photo by Keri Braswell, GAC staff.
Nashville’s Schermerhorn Symphony Center was crawling with star power Tuesday night as the Academy of Country Music celebrated Randy Travis, Hank Williams Jr., Merle Haggard and Dolly Parton among others in its second annual ACM Honors.
Lee Ann Womack photo courtesy of MCA Nashville. Photo credit Danny Clinch.
George Strait: ACM Artist Of The Decade All Star Concert airs on CBS Wednesday, and while the honor itself was no secret to George the night he received it, one of the performances came as a complete surprise.
The special was shot in Las Vegas April 6, one day after the Academy of Country Music handed out its annual awards. Lee Ann Womack joined Jamey Johnson for a duet version of “Give It Away,” then sang a solo. The song she handled on her own was written specifically for the special and then kept hidden until the big night. Continue Reading
Sunday night’s CBS telecast of the “44th Annual Academy of Country Music Awards” was an ratings winner for the network as an average of 14 million fans hung in throughout the broadcast for the final Entertainer of the Year showdown, in which Carrie Underwood was a surprise victor.
But the biggest drama took place behind the scenes. Toby Keith lambasted a reporter, Tim McGraw walked out during rehearsals, and the folks in the business continue to debate the Academy’s increasing use of fan votes to determine the winners. Continue Reading
For the first time in eight years, a woman is now the Academy of Country Music’s Entertainer of the Year.
Carrie Underwood took the final honor of the evening during Sunday’s telecast of the “44th Annual Academy of Country Music Awards” from Las Vegas, ending Kenny Chesney’s four-year command of the prestigious category. Kenny was gracious in the process. He gave Carrie, who previously toured as his opening act, a kiss on the cheek on her way up to the podium to make her second acceptance speech of the night. Continue Reading
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