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Carrie Underwood rehearses on Sunday, Nov. 8 at the Sommet Center in Downtown Nashville for "The 43rd Annual CMA Awards," which will broadcast live on the ABC Television Network on Wed., Nov. 11th, 8-11PM/ET. Photographer: John Russell / CMA

When Carrie Underwood co-hosted the CMA Awards last year with Brad Paisley, she had one question for Brad when the show was over — “Do you think they’ll ask us back?”

Carrie recently visited our Top 20 Country Countdown show and chatted with host Nan Kelley about the good time she had in 2008, and how she learned to deal with tonight’s tight schedule for the 43rd Annual CMA Awards. Watch the clip below! Continue Reading

Carrie Underwood chats with host Nan Kelley on the set of Top 20 Country Countdown.

Carrie Underwood’s third album, Play On, hits stores both physical and virtual on Tuesday, and she’ll hit the small screen Friday in an interview with Nan Kelley on GAC’s Top 20 Country Countdown, hosted this weekend by Suzanne Alexander.

It’s great timing. The album’s first video debuts at No. 1 on the show, as “Cowboy Casanova” employs a fair share of Michael Jackson-like group dance shots. Carrie’s also slated to co-host the 43rd Annual Country Music Association Awards with Brad Paisley on Nov. 11, and she’s up for an American Music Award Nov. 22. She’ll host her first network TV special on FOX on Dec. 7.

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Chris Young photo courtesy of Sony Music Nashville.

When Chris Young released his current single, “Gettin’ You Home,” he subtitled it “The Black Dress Song,” owing to the signature line about a woman shedding her garment after a night of fine dining.

Thanks to that song, Chris has begun to encounter other kinds of women’s apparel on the road. Beginning with a show in Iowa, female fans started throwing their bras on stage during his concerts in response to the song’s sexual message.

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Luke Bryan photo courtesy of Capitol Nashville.

Oct. 2, 2009 — Luke Bryan’s “Do I” is firmly entrenched at No. 1 for the sixth straight week on GAC’s Top 20 Country Countdown, and he drops by to visit with host Nan Kelley on this weekend’s edition.

The appearance comes just days before the release of Luke’s sophomore album, Doin’ My Thing, which shoehorns a cover of OneRepublic’s “Apologize” amid songs that continue to celebrate country life in the same way he did on his first CD.

Luke’s not the only act with a hit video on this week’s show. Due West, which is ranked at No. 3 with “I Get That All The Time,” also makes a stop on the countdown.

Top 20 Country Countdown counts down the week’s top country videos from No. 20 to No. 1 as voted by viewers on each week on GACTV.com. A new countdown premieres every Friday at 8 p.m. ET on GAC and airs again Saturdays at 10 a.m. and 5:30 p.m. ET; Sundays at 1 p.m. ET; and Mondays at 10 a.m. ET. Viewers can vote for their favorite videos, as well as purchase Top 20 artists’ albums and ringtones at GACTV.com.

Click here to preview each song on our Top 20 list and download the ones you want!

THIS WEEK’S CHART:

1. Luke Bryan “Do I”
2. Keith Urban “Only You Can Love Me This Way”
3. Due West “I Get That All The Time”
4. Chris Young “Gettin’ You Home”
5. Billy Currington “People Are Crazy”
6. George Strait “Living For The Night”
7. Miranda Lambert “Dead Flowers”
8. Taylor Swift “You Belong With Me”
9. Alan Jackson “I Still Like Bologna”
10. Toby Keith “American Ride”
11. Jason Aldean “Big Green Tractor”
12. Kellie Pickler “Best Days Of Your Life”
13. Lady Antebellum “Need You Now”
14. Martina McBride “I Just Call You Mine”
15. Caitlin & Will “Address In The Stars”
16. Brooks & Dunn “Indian Summer”
17. Lady Antebellum “I Run To You”
18. Brad Paisley “Welcome To The Future”
19. Jake Owen “Eight Second Ride”
20. Reba McEntire “Strange”

Miranda Lambert photo courtesy of Sony Music Nashville.

Miranda Lambert releases her third album on Tuesday, and it’s a sign that she’s transitioning in her life.

She titled the CD Revolution, signalling outwardly the inward changes she’s chronicled in the album’s 15 songs.

“When I hear the word revolution, it means things are happening, change is coming,” she told The San Antonio Express-News. “And this record opens the door to new things for me. I was a crazy, wild-eyed kid when I was writing Kerosene, and Crazy Ex-Girlfriend was kind of the same. Now that I’m 25 years old, have a really steady relationship and a great career going, I’m settling into life a little bit. Continue Reading

Miranda Lambert photo courtesy of Sony Music Nashville.

With her third album, Revolution, set for release on Tuesday, Miranda Lambert is a special guest this weekend on GAC’s Top 20 Country Countdown.

The appearance comes on the heels of Thursday’s sold-out concert at Nashville’s historic Ryman Auditorium, where Miranda performed the CD’s songs in full for an appreciative crowd. One of her goals with the album was to expand the way the world perceives her.

“I feel like I was getting dangerously close to being shoved in that box of ‘She’s that crazy girl who kills people in her songs,’” she told The Los Angeles Times. “That’s fine, but there’s so much more to me than that; there’s so much more to the great music that I love than one song.” Continue Reading

Blake Shelton photo courtesy of Warner Bros. Nashville.

Blake Shelton is double trouble on GAC in the coming week as he guests on Friday’s Top 20 Country Countdown and receives his own installment of Backstory: Blake Shelton on Tuesday.

Girlfriend Miranda Lambert joins friends, family and business associates to reflect in Backstory on Blake, whose performance of Bob Seger’s “Old Time Rock & Roll” at age 12 makes its way into the special. It was doing that number that convinced Blake to pursue music full-time.

“Right then is when he got the bug and thought, ‘Man, I want to do this,’” his mom says. Continue Reading

Tim McGraw photo courtesy of Curb Records.

From medical efforts to kids’ charities, country stars Tim McGraw, Charlie Daniels, Luke Bryan and John Rich are among the performers turning their music into fundraisers for important programs in the community.

Tim and Faith Hill are working on an event that should aid soldiers’ health, while Charlie has a Christmas concert on his schedule and Luke Bryan is planning a new farm outreach.

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• Tim McGraw and Faith Hill will be joined by Continue Reading

Jack Ingram photo courtesy of Big Machine Records.

Jack Ingram is currently lodged among Billboard’s Top 10 country singles with “Barefoot And Crazy,” and he’ll pop in to chat with host Nan Kelley about it on this week’s edition of GAC’s Top 20 Country Countdown.

The song appears on his new album, Big Dreams & High Hopes, which provided a backdrop for a huge push to set a new world record. Beginning at 8 a.m. Aug. 25, the day it was released, Jack did 215 interviews in a 24-hour period, a mark authenticated by The Guinness Book Of World Records. By the end, it’s a good bet that almost all the questions were the same: “How many more interviews do you have to do?” and “How are you holdin’ up?” Continue Reading

GAC host Nan Kelley with Craig Morgan and Carrie Underwood after the 19th Annual City of Hope Celebrity Softball Challenge on June 10, 2009. Photo courtesy of GAC Staff.

Many of country music’s biggest stars — including Carrie Underwood, Josh Turner, Joe Nichols and Darius Rucker — took part in Wednesday’s City of Hope Celebrity Softball Game, and a bevy of singer-athletes will join host Nan Kelley on this weekend’s edition of GAC’s Top 20 Country Countdown. Continue Reading