ACM Nominees are in!!
Top Vocal Group of the Year
Lady Antebellum
Little Big Town
Randy Rogers Band
Rascal Flatts
Zac Brown Band
Top Vocal Duo of the Year
Brooks and Dunn
Joey and Rory
Montgomery Gentry
Steel Magnolia
Sugarland
Vocal Event of the Year
Honky Tonk Stomp - Brooks and Dunn f/Billy Gibbons
I Told You So - Carrie Underwood f/Randy Travis
I'm Alive - Kenny Chesney with Dave Matthews
Seeing Stars - Jack Ingram f/Patty Griffin
Hillbilly Bone - Blake Shelton f/Trace Adkins
Female Vocal of the Year
Miranda Lambert
Taylor Swift
Carrie Underwood
Lee Ann Womack
Reba McEntire
Male Vocalist of the Year
Kenny Chesney
Brad Paisley
Darius Rucker
George Strait
Keith Urban
Song of the Year
Cowboy Casanova (Carrie Underwood)
Need You Now (Lady Antebellum)
People Are Crazy (Billy Currington)
White Liar (Miranda Lambert)
You Belong With Me (Taylor Swift)
Album of the Year
Brad Paisley - American Saturday Night
Lady Antebellum
Carrie Underwood - Play On
Miranda Lambert - Revolution
Zac Brown Band - The Foundation
Entertainer of the Year
Kenny Chesney
Toby Keith
George Strait
Keith Urban
Zac Brown Band
Taylor Swift
Carrie Underwood
Brad Paisley
Home Depot Humanitarian Award
Montgomery Gentry
Single of the Year
"Need You Now" --
Lady Antebellum
"People Are Crazy" --
Billy Currington
"Red Light" --
David Nail
"Toes" --
Zac Brown Band
"White Liar" --
Miranda Lambert
Video of the Year
"Boots On" --
Randy Houser
"Need You Now" --
Lady Antebellum
"Welcome to the Future" --
Brad Paisley
"White Liar" --
Miranda Lambert
"You Belong to Me" --
Taylor Swift
PREVIOUSLY ANNOUNCED NOMINATIONS:
Top New Solo Vocalist
Luke Bryan
Jamey Johnson
Chris Young
Top New Vocal Duo
Bomshel
Joey and Rory
Steel Magnolia
Top New Vocal Group
Eli Young Band
Gloriana
The Lost Trailers
Dancing With The Stars cast revealed!
The new cast of Dancing With the Stars was announced last night -- and it includes a reality mom, a pop star, an astronaut, a football player, an Olympian and a Bachelor.
Here are the so-called "stars" who'll hoof it for our pleasure beginning March 22nd:
Kate Gosselin (formerly of Jon and Kate Plus Eight)
Pamela Anderson (former Baywatch babe)
Shannen Doherty (former bad-girl star of Beverly Hills 9-0-2-1-0)
Erin Andrews (E-S-P-N reporter and peeping-Tom victim)
Jake Pavelka (star of this past season's The Bachelor)
Nicole Scherzinger (Pussycat Dolls singer)
Evan Lysacek (the gold medalist in figure skating in the 2010 Winter Olympics)
Niecy Nash (star of Reno 9-1-1!)
Chad Ochocinco (Cincinnati Bengals wide receiver)
Aiden Turner (All My Children actor)
Buzz Aldrin (80-year-old former astronaut, and second man to step foot on the Moon)
Host Tom Bergeron and former contestant Melissa Rycroft announced the cast last night during The Bachelor.