During a live telecast earlier this morning, Reba McEntire and Blake Shelton announced the nominations for the 45th ACM Awards . Leading the way this year was Lady Antebellum with a surprising seven nominations in five categories, including one in the Album of the Year category for their two-year-old debut album Lady Antebellum. Following Lady A with six nominations each were Carrie Underwood, Miranda Lambert and Zac Brown (who got group, producer and songwriter nominations).
Lady A scored seven nominations including, top vocal group, Album, single, song, and video. As writers and co-producers they each picked up additional nominations to give them the seven nominations. Why can they get seven nominations in five slots? Well, the ACM allows for such things if they write and produce the recordings (or direct the video) in addition to being the artists.
Miranda Lambert is up for top female vocalist and album of the year for Revolution while “White Liar” is up for single and song. Since she co-wrote them, she gets the additional nominations there. Carrie’s nominations included album of the year, for Play On, and female vocalist, entertainer and for “Cowboy Casanova” as both a writer and artist in the song of the year category. The single also earned a nomination. Carrie is alo up for vocal event with Randy Travis (for probably the last time for “I Told You So”).
Zac Brown is nominated for six awards while he joins his band on four including a surprising, but well-deserved, inclusion in the expanded Entertainer of the Year list. The super-talented group is also up for Vocal Group, Album for The Foundation, for “Toes” and Song for “Toes.” Zac gets producer nominations for album and song while also getting a songwriter credit for song as well.
Taylor Swift received five nominations including a spot in the Entertainer of the Year category, a category which was expanded, Oscar-like, to eight contestants. Kenny Chensey and Brad Paisley followed with four nominations each.
Billy Currington’s “People Are Crazy” is up for single and song of the year while David Nail’s “Red Light” is up for single. Brad Paisley is in the entertainer and top male vocalist while his album American Saturday Night is up for album of the year. Paisley also scored a video of the year nomination for “Welcome To The Future.”
Kenny Chesney rightfully scored an Entertainer of the Year nomination (which he’s won four other times) and netted a top male vocalist. He’s also nominated as an artist/producer for vocal event with Buddy Cannon and Dave Matthews for the strong single “I’m Alive.”
Entertainer of the Year is rounded out by Toby Keith, George Strait and Keith Urban. The category’s winner will be determined by online voting by the fans. The Top New Artist category will also go to the fans. Montgomery Gentry is already a winner of an ACM Award as they get the ACM/Home Depot Humanitarian Award for all their charitable contributions over the years.
Reba McEntire will host the event live from Las Vegas on April 18, 2010. CBS will broadcast the award show.
After reading the list of nominees below, do you think anybody was undeservedly left out of any categories? Let us know if you agree or disagree with the list.
Here's a complete list of the nominees:
Entertainer of the Year
Kenny Chesney
Toby Keith
Brad Paisley
George Strait
Taylor Swift
Carrie Underwood
Keith Urban
Zac Brown Band
Top Male Vocalist
Kenny Chesney
Brad Paisley
Darius Rucker
George Strait
Keith Urban
Top Female Vocalist
Miranda Lambert
Reba McEntire
Taylor Swift
Carrie Underwood
Lee Ann Womack
Top Vocal Group
Lady Antebellum
Little Big Town
Randy Rogers Band
Rascal Flatts
Zac Brown Band
Top Vocal Duo
Brooks & Dunn
Joey & Rory
Montgomery Gentry
Steel Magnolia
Sugarland
Top New Solo Vocalist
Luke Bryan
Jamey Johnson
Chris Young
Top New Vocal Duo
Bomshel
Joey & Rory
Steel Magnolia
Top New Vocal Group
Eli Young Band
Gloriana
the Lost Trailers
Album of the Year
American Saturday Night
Brad Paisley
Producers: Chris DuBois, Frank Rogers
Lady Antebellum
Lady Antebellum
Producers: Victoria Shaw, Paul Worley
Play On
Carrie Underwood
Producer: Mark Bright
("Quitter" produced By Max Martin and Shellback for Maratone Productions and Mark Bright)
Revolution
Miranda Lambert
Producers: Frank Liddell, Mike Wrucke
The Foundation
Zac Brown Band
Producers: Keith Stegall, Zac Brown
Single Record of the Year
"Need You Now"
Lady Antebellum
Producers: Lady Antebellum, Paul Worley
"People Are Crazy"
Billy Currington
Producers: Carson Chamberlain, Billy Currington
"Red Light"
David Nail
Producers: Frank Liddell, Mike Wrucke
"Toes"
Zac Brown Band
Producers: Keith Stegall, Zac Brown
"White Liar"
Miranda Lambert
Producers: Frank Liddell, Mike Wrucke
Song of the Year
"Cowboy Casanova"
Carrie Underwood
Writers: Mike Elizondo, Brett James, Carrie Underwood
"Need You Now"
Lady Antebellum
Writers: Dave Haywood, Josh Kear, Charles Kelley, Hillary Scott
"People Are Crazy"
Billy Currington
Writers: Bobby Braddock, Troy Jones
"White Liar"
Miranda Lambert
Writers: Natalie Hemby, Miranda Lambert
"You Belong With Me"
Taylor Swift
Writers: Liz Rose, Taylor Swift
Video of the Year
"Boots On"
Randy Houser
Producer: Eric Welch
Director: Eric Welch
(Drake Footage: Vickie Vaughn)
"Need You Now"
Lady Antebellum
Producer: Clarke Gallican
Director: David McClister
"Welcome to the Future"
Brad Paisley
Producers: Mark Kalbfeld, Jim Shea, Peter Tilden
Director: Jim Shea
"White Liar"
Miranda Lambert
Producer: Tameron Hedge
Director: Chris Hicky
"You Belong With Me"
Taylor Swift
Producer: Randy Brewer
Director: Roman White
Vocal Event
"Hillbilly Bone"
Blake Shelton Featuring Trace Adkins
Producer: Scott Hendricks
"Honky Tonk Stomp"
Brooks & Dunn Featuring Billy Gibbons
Producers: Ronnie Dunn, Terry McBride
"I Told You So"
Carrie Underwood Featuring Randy Travis
Producer: Mark Bright
"I'm Alive"
Kenny Chesney With Dave Matthews
Producers: Buddy Cannon, Kenny Chesney
"Seeing Stars"
Jack Ingram Featuring Patty Griffin
Producers: Jack Ingram, Jeremy Stover
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