The Academy of Country Music announced their nominations Thursday morning for the 47th annual ACM Awards and Kenny Chesney led all other artists with nine nominations.
Here’s a look at the categories Kenny is nominated in:
Entertainer of the Year
Jason Aldean
Kenny Chesney
Brad Paisley
Blake Shelton
Taylor Swift
Male Vocalist of the Year
Jason Aldean
Kenny Chesney
Brad Paisley
Blake Shelton
Chris Young
Album of the Year
Chief – Eric Church
Four The Record – Miranda Lambert
Hemingway’s Whiskey – Kenny Chesney
My Kinda Party – Jason Aldean
Own The Night – Lady Antebellum
Single Record of the Year
Crazy Girl – Eli Young Band
Don’t You Wanna Stay – Jason Aldean With Kelly Clarkson
Red Solo Cup – Toby Keith
Tomorrow – Chris Young
You And Tequila – Kenny Chesney Featuring Grace Potter
Song of the Year
Crazy Girl – Eli Young Band
Home – Dierks Bentley
Just A Kiss – Lady Antebellum
Threaten Me With Heaven – Vince Gill
You And Tequila – Kenny Chesney Featuring Grace Potter
Vocal Event of the Year
Country Boy – Aaron Lewis Featuring George Jones & Charlie Daniels
Don’t You Wanna Stay – Jason Aldean With Kelly Clarkson
Old Alabama – Brad Paisley Featuring Alabama
Remind Me – Brad Paisley Duet With Carrie Underwood
You And Tequila – Kenny Chesney Featuring Grace Potter
Entertainer of the Year will once again be determined by fan voting. Fans can begin voting at the ACM website for Entertainer of the Year on March 19th.
The 47th Annual Academy of Country Music Awards, hosted by Blake Shelton and Reba McEntire, will take place on Sunday, April 1, at 8 p.m. ET, and will air on CBS.
The Academy of Country Music wants you to help them announce the ACM nominees this year.
Co-host Reba McEntire explains:
Here are the rules:
SUBMISSIONS GUIDELINES: Post a video response to this video saying your favorite entertainer’s name. You must first give consent for the Academy to use your video by saying “I am submitting this video for the ACM digital press conference. And the nominees for the ACM Entertainer of the Year are…(insert name here)!!!” All videos must be submitted by Wednesday January 25th 5:00pm ET/ 2:00pm PT. If you are recording your video from a cell phone we ask that you shoot horizontally.
Join us on our Facebook (facebook.com/AcademyOfCountryMusic) and Twitter (@ACMawards), Thursday January 26 at 9:30am ET/ 6:30am to see if you made the cut. Please speak clearly, and have FUN!
To post as video response: Log in, click on the text comment box below the video, and then “Create a video response.”
Some of the biggest stars in music were at the Loews Vanderbilt Hotel Tuesday in Nashville to celebrate their Grammy nominations for the 54th annual all-genre music awards show:
Kenny Chesney walked the red carpet into the party with Matraca Berg and Deana Carter, co-writers for his 2011 hit with Grace Potter “You and Tequila,” which is nominated for best country song and landed Chesney and Potter a nomination for best country duo/group performance.
“I had lived with Matraca’s demo of it for a while,” Chesney said. “I felt like it was a brilliantly written song they came up with. I was so proud to sing it and to have Grace sing it with me. Songs like that just don’t come around every day, they just don’t. I’m really excited I’m the guy that gets to sing that song for the rest of my life.”
“We are, too,” the writers chimed in.
See how Chesney and the others fare when the Grammy Awards air live from Los Angeles 7 p.m. Feb. 12 on CBS.
Kenny Chesney will participate in a star-studded concert special with Lionel Richie the day after the ACM Awards:
ACM Presents: Lionel Richie and Friends – A Lifetime Of Hits, is an all-star concert special to be taped Monday, April 2 at the MGM Grand Garden Arena to air later on CBS. This country collaboration with the legendary Lionel Richie, featuring duets from his upcoming album Tuskeegee, will include some of Richie’s greatest hits performed by Jason Aldean, The Band Perry, Kenny Chesney, Lady Antebellum, Martina McBride, Rascal Flatts, Kenny Rogers and many more. Ticket sales will benefit ACM Lifting Lives, which works to improve lives through music.
Chesney did a similar event in 2010 for Brooks and Dunn.
A release date has not yet been set for Richie’s Tuskegee album, but you can pre-order now at Amazon.com. Chesney and Richie sing “My Love” on the album.
The ACM Awards will air live Sunday, April 1st. Nominations have not yet been announced.
Kenny Chesney is honored along with Jason Aldean, Lady Antebellum, Taylor Swift, and Brad Paisley as this year’s CMT Artists of the Year which will air on December 13th.
Check out a preview of Gavin DeGraw singing Chesney’s hit “Somewhere With You”:
Nominations were announced Wednesday night for the 54th annual Grammy Awards and Kenny Chesney, along with Grace Potter, received two nominations for their duet “You and Tequila.”
Here’s a look at the categories Kenny and Grace are nominated in:
Best Country Duo/Group Performance
“Don’t You Wanna Stay,” Jason Aldean with Kelly Clarkson
“You and Tequila,” Kenny Chesney featuring Grace Potter
“Barton Hollow,” the Civil Wars
“Are You Gonna Kiss Me or Not,” Thompson Square
Best Country Song
“Are You Gonna Kiss Me or Not”
Songwriters: Jim Collins and David Lee Murphy
Artist: Thompson Square
“God Gave Me You”
Songwriter: Dave Barnes
Artist: Blake Shelton
“Just Fishin’”
Songwriters: Casey Beathard, Monty Criswell and Ed Hill
Artist: Trace Adkins
“Mean”
Songwriter: Taylor Swift
Artist: Taylor Swift
“Threaten Me With Heaven”
Songwriters: Vince Gill, Amy Grant, Will Owsley and Dillon O’Brian
Artist: Vince Gill
“You and Tequila”
Songwriters: Matraca Berg and Deana Carter
Artist: Kenny Chesney featuring Grace Potter
The 54th Grammy Awards will air February 12th on CBS.
The CMT Artists of the Year celebration was taped in Nashville Tuesday night and Kenny Chesney was among the five artists honored. The other award-winners were Jason Aldean, Taylor Swift, Brad Paisley, and Lady Antebellum.
Chesney was presented with his award by his good friend, Saints coach Sean Payton, and also by former St Louis Cardinals manager Tony LaRussa.
It was a night full of cross-pollinated moments, with host Rob Lowe, Lionel Richie, William Shatner, Joe Walsh, Gavin DeGraw, New Orleans Saints coach Sean Payton, former St. Louis Cardinals manager Tony La Russa, The Avett Brothers and The All-American Rejects on hand to celebrate country’s biggest entertainers. But it was Hank Williams Jr. who turned in the night’s most buzzed about moment, leaving the stage quickly mid-song after singing his part during a duet with Aldean.
The 90-minute special will premier Dec. 13 at 9 p.m. ET/PT on CMT.
Two nights and two awards for Kenny Chesney. On Wednesday night he took home a CMA award for Music Video of the Year and on Thursday night at the Billboard Touring Awards Chesney won Top Package for his 2011 Goin’ Coastal Tour with Zac Brown, Uncle Kracker, and Billy Currington.
U2 took home Top Tour and Top Draw, while Jason Aldean earned the Breakthrough award.
The Academy of Country Music announced their nominations Thursday morning for the 47th annual ACM Awards and Kenny Chesney led all other artists with nine nominations.
Some of the biggest stars in music 
Nominations were announced Wednesday night for the 54th annual Grammy Awards and Kenny Chesney, along with Grace Potter, received two nominations for their duet “You and Tequila.”
The CMT Artists of the Year celebration was taped in Nashville Tuesday night and Kenny Chesney was among the five artists honored. The other award-winners were Jason Aldean, Taylor Swift, Brad Paisley, and Lady Antebellum.
Two nights and two awards for Kenny Chesney. On Wednesday night he took home a CMA award for Music Video of the Year and on Thursday night at the Billboard Touring Awards Chesney won Top Package for his 2011 Goin’ Coastal Tour with Zac Brown, Uncle Kracker, and Billy Currington.
