The 2011 Billboard Touring Awards will honor the concert industry’s top artists, venues and professionals, and Kenny Chesney is nominated for one of the night’s top award: Top Package.

Chesney faces stiff competition from Taylor Swift’s tour that featured Needtobreathe, Danny Gokey, Frankie Ballard, and others. The Zac Brown Band, Uncle Kracker, and Billy Currington were part of Chesney’s 2011 Goin’ Coastal Tour.

The 2011 Billboard Touring Awards will take place November 10th in New York City.

And keep demanding Kenny for the Eventful Fans’ Choice Award by clicking here and voting!

First round nominations are out for the 2012 People’s Choice Awards and Kenny Chesney needs your votes to advance in the three categories he’s nominated in:

• Favorite Male Artist
• Favorite Country Artist
• Favorite Tour Headliner

You can also write-in Kenny in a couple other categories like Favorite Album of the Year, Favorite Music Video of the Year, and Favorite Song of the Year.

Go to peopleschoice.com now to vote!

This first round of voting goes through October 28th and the final nominees will be unveiled November 8th. So vote now and often!

People’s Choice Awards 2012 will take place on Wednesday, January 11, 2012 @ 9PM ET/PT on CBS.

More performers have been added to the CMA Awards lineup, including Kenny Chesney with Grace Potter:

High-profile duets featuring newcomer Grace Potter teaming with Kenny Chesney, and Natasha Bedingfield, performing with Rascal Flatts, have been added to the lineup of live performances scheduled for the 45th Annual CMA Awards broadcast in November.

Bedingfield will team with Rascal Flatts to perform their current single, “Easy.” Potter is a first-time nominee for her duet with four-time CMA Entertainer of the Year Kenny Chesney on “You and Tequila,” which is nominated for Musical Event and Music Video of the Year. Chesney is nominated for Male Vocalist of the Year.

Previously announced performers include Jason Aldean, The Band Perry, Lady Antebellum, Miranda Lambert, Blake Shelton, Taylor Swift, Keith Urban, Faith Hill, Brad Paisley, and Carrie Underwood.

Kenny Chesney is among five artists that will be honored as CMT Artists of the Year during a December special. Jason Aldean, Taylor Swift, Brad Paisley, and Lady Antebellum are the other four.

Criteria for choosing the five acts included music sales, country radio airplay, concert grosses as a headliner or co-headliner and video streams, searches and page views on CMT.com. During the past 12 months, the five artists have collectively sold more than 9 million copies of their albums and more than 20 million individual downloads of their current singles.

Scheduled to be taped in Nashville, the celebration will feature star-studded performances from the honorees as well as celebrity peers from across the entertainment spectrum. The evening’s cuisine will be inspired by the artists of the year and prepared by celebrity chef Stephanie Izard, winner of TV’s Top Chef competition and chef/partner of Girl and the Goat restaurant in Chicago.

The 90-minute special will premier Dec. 13 at 9 p.m. ET/PT on CMT.

Despite selling over a million copies of his latest album, and over a million tickets to his shows this year, Kenny Chesney was not among the nominees for CMA Entertainer of the Year this year. Peter Cooper at The Tennessean breaks it down:

“We’re talking about Kenny (expletive) Chesney,” says Louis Messina, who promotes Chesney’s stadium and arena shows. (And who also promotes the wildly successful Ms. Swift, the only other contemporary country artist who can sell out stadiums with regularity.) “I know I’m biased, but for him to get totally dissed is a crime and a joke. Not even in the top five? What’s the criteria for entertainer of the year?”

According to the Country Music Association, the entertainer award goes to an artist who displays the greatest competence in all aspects of the entertainment field, with consideration given to recorded performance, in-person performance, staging, public acceptance, attitude, leadership and overall contribution to “the Country Music image.”

So, clearly, Chesney does not qualify.

Theories abound as to why Chesney has joined the ranks of Tim McGraw, Rascal Flatts and Toby Keith, recording artists who often can be found near the top of sales charts and ticket tallies but are regularly snubbed in the entertainer race.

Some say Chesney should have played a Nashville show to impress industry voters. (Because he’s an unfamiliar commodity?) Some say he lost his place when he took off the summer of 2010 to recharge. (Because this year’s awards should be dependent on last year’s productivity?) Some say he lost out because of inner-industry vote-trading and “block voting,” wherein company bosses instruct all employees to vote for a particular artist. CMA officials have repeatedly said precautions are in place to deter block voting and that precautions are evaluated every year to make sure they’re effective.

Read the full article here.

Congratulations to Kenny Chesney as his latest album Hemingway’s Whiskey has been certified platinum by the RIAA:

Kenny Chesney’s latest album, Hemingway’s Whiskey, has been certified platinum by the RIAA for shipments of 1 million copies. The project is his 10th platinum album.

In addition, his duet with Grace Potter, “You and Tequila,” has been certified as a gold single for 500,000 digital downloads. The duet is the fourth single from Hemingway’s Whiskey, following “The Boys of Fall,” “Somewhere With You” and “Live a Little.”

Kenny Chesney is up for the Eventful 2011 Fans’ Choice Award at the Billboard Touring Conference & Awards.

To vote for Kenny, click here and then under Kenny Chesney click “Demand it!”

The artist with the most Demanders will win the Eventful 2011 Fans’ Choice Award for Best Tour of the Year!

The competition ends November 7th and the conference and awards ceremony will take place on the 9th and 10th.

Vote for Kenny now!

Nominations for the 45th annual CMA Awards were announced Tuesday morning and Kenny Chesney is up for three awards.

Though having one of the top tours in country music in 2011, Kenny was not nominated for Entertainer of the Year. Jason Aldean, Brad Paisley, Blake Shelton, Taylor Swift, and Keith Urban will vie for the night’s top award.

Here are the categories that Kenny is nominated in:

Male Vocalist of the Year

• Jason Aldean
• Kenny Chesney
• Brad Paisley
• Blake Shelton
• Keith Urban

Musical Event of the Year

• “As She’s Walking Away” – Zac Brown Band featuring Alan Jackson
  Southern Ground Artists/Atlantic Records
• “Coal Miner’s Daughter” – Loretta Lynn, Sheryl Crow, and Miranda Lambert
  Columbia Records Nashville
• “Don’t You Wanna Stay” – Jason Aldean with Kelly Clarkson
  Broken Bow Records
• “Old Alabama” – Brad Paisley featuring Alabama
  Arista Nashville
• “You and Tequila” – Kenny Chesney featuring Grace Potter
  BNA Records

Music Video of the Year

• “Honey Bee” – Blake Shelton
  Directed by Trey Fanjoy
• “If I Die Young” – The Band Perry
  Directed by David McClister
• “Mean” – Taylor Swift
  Directed by Declan Whitebloom
• “Old Alabama” – Brad Paisley featuring Alabama
  Directed by Jim Shea
• “You and Tequila” – Kenny Chesney featuring Grace Potter
  Directed by Shaun Silva

The 45th annual CMA Awards will air Wednesday, November 9th on ABC with hosts Carrie Underwood and Brad Paisley.

The 2011 CMT Music Awards, hosted by Kid Rock, air tonight live from Nashville at 8 pm ET. Kenny Chesney is nominated for two awards, including the top honor: Video of the Year.

The finalists for Video of the Year will be announced at the beginning of the show, and then you’ll be able to vote throughout the show for your favorite. So if Kenny makes it into the finalists, be sure to vote for him at CMT.com!

Here’s who Kenny is up against:

Video of the Year

• Jason Aldean – “My Kinda Party”
• Kenny Chesney – “The Boys of Fall”
• Lady Antebellum – “Hello World”
• Miranda Lambert – “The House That Built Me”
• Rascal Flatts – “Why Wait”
• Sugarland – “Stuck Like Glue”
• Taylor Swift – “Mine”
• The Band Perry – “If I Die Young”
• Carrie Underwood – “Undo It”
• Zac Brown Band – “Colder Weather”

Male Video of the Year

• Jason Aldean – “My Kinda Party”
• Kenny Chesney – “The Boys of Fall”
• Toby Keith – “Bullets in the Gun”
• Blake Shelton – “Who Are You When I’m Not Looking”
• Keith Urban – “Without You”