Want To Be An ACM Awards Know It All?

Posted by amyclark on 08/25/2008
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5/6/2008 Webb Just a week from this Sunday “Country Music’s Party of the Year”, The 43rd Annual Academy of Country Music Awards, will be broadcast live from the MGM Grand in Las Vegas.  You can vote on CountryHound presently for who should be Top New Male Vocalist. So when you are sitting around small talking with your Country Music fan friends, here’s a few pieces of Academy of Country Music Awards trivia you can throw out to impress them: *     These are actually the 2007 Academy of Country Music Award nominees, though the awards are presented in 2008. *     Kenny Chesney leads with 11 nominations *     Rodney Atkins has 6 nominations *     Brad Paisley received 4 individual nominations *     Big & Rich and Sugarland have 4 nominations as a duo *     Miranda Lambert, George Strait and Taylor Swift each have 3 nominations *     This is Reba McEntire’s tenth year hosting the Academy of Country Music Awards. *     If Kenny Chesney wins Entertainer of the Year, it will be his fourth consecutive win, and he will be tied with Garth Brooks for that honor. *     Alabama still holds the lead with 5 consecutive wins for Entertainer of the Year. *     If Brooks & Dunn win Top Vocal Duo, it will be their 13 consecutive win. They also have the highest wins of any nominee, with 24 awards. *     If Rascal Flatts win Top Vocal Group, it will be their sixth consecutive win. This will tie them with Alabama. *     Miranda Lambert and Taylor Swift lead female nominations, including both gaining nods in the Album of the Year category. *     Besides being nominated for four awards as the duo Big & Rich, John Rich is up for a producer award and writer award. Big Kenny is up for 2 producer awards. *     George Strait and Garth Brooks are tied for 18 wins. George is nominated for 3 awards this year. *     First time nominee Sarah Buxton, up for Top New Female, wrote Keith Urban’s smash hit “Stupid Boy.” *     First time nominee Kelly Clarkson is up for Vocal Event of the Year. *     Sheryl Crow is nominated for the second year in a row for Vocal Event. She won last year with “Building Bridges” with Brooks & Dunn and Vince Gill. *     The Eagles have only been nominated one other time, in 1975 for Top Vocal Group. *     Bon Jovi is nominated for the second time for Vocal Event of the Year.