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Brooks & Dunn, Paisley Lead CMA Noms
08/30/2006 2:55 PM, E! Online
Stick a fork in the CMA Award nominations--they're Dunn.
Brooks & Dunn and solo crooner Brad Paisley racked up six
nominations apiece for the Country Music Association Awards, with
Ronnie Dunn besting honky-tonk partner Kix Brooks by earning a seventh
nod for cowriting the duo's hit "I Believe."
Paisley,
along with double nominee and Sugarland frontwoman Jennifer Nettles,
announced the contenders Wednesday during Good Morning America.
Brooks & Dunn received their obligatorily Vocal Duo
nomination--an honor the twosome has taken home 13 previous times. The
boys also netted noms for Single and Music Video of the Year for their
hit "I Believe," as well as an Album of the Year mention for
Hillbilly Deluxe and a nod for their collaboration with Sheryl Crow and Vince Gill on "Building Bridges."
Dunn's
individual nod for penning the duo's inspirational single marks his
first solo nomination.
They will also compete for the
CMA's top trophy, Entertainer of the Year, a category comprised solely
of male artists.
Paisley also made the Entertainer of the
Year cut, as did Kenny Chesney, Rascal Flatts, Keith Urban.
Paisley is also up for Male Vocalist, Album of the Year for Time
Well Wasted, and three nominations stemming from "When I Get Where
I'm Going," his collaboration with Dolly Parton: Single, Music Video and
Musical Event.
Amongh the other multiple nominees: the
ex-Mr. Zellweger, the current Mr. Kidman and a former American Idol.
Chesney, Urban and Carrie Underwood each collected four
nominations, with the Some Hearts songbird up for the Horizon
Award (for best new artist), Female Vocalist and Single and Music Video
for the single "Jesus Take the Wheel."
Chesney and Urban,
in addition to their dueling Entertainer of the Year nods, will also
battle it out for Male Vocalist. Chesney rounds out his nominations with
nods for Album of the Year for The Road and the Radio and Single
of the Year for "Summertime."
Reigning Entertainer of the
Year Urban, meanwhile, is also up for Single of the Year for "Better
Life" and Song of the Year for "Tonight I Wanna Cry," which he cowrote.
Rascal Flatts and Parton each scored three nominations
apiece; Big & Rich, Faith Hill, Alan Jackson, Miranda Lambert, Little
Big Town, Sugarland and Gretchen Wilson netted two each.
After 34 years on CBS, the CMAs will move to ABC for the Nov.
6 ceremony, which also returns to Nashville after last year's New York
experiment.
Here's the complete list of nominees:
Entertainer of the Year
- Brooks & Dunn
- Kenny Chesney
- Brad Paisley
- Rascal Flatts
- Keith
Urban
Female Vocalist
Male Vocalist
Vocal Group
- Alison Krauss & Union Station Featuring Jerry Douglas
- Little Big Town
- Lonestar
- Rascal Flatts
- Sugarland
Vocal Duo
- Big & Rich
- Brooks & Dunn
- Montgomery Gentry
- Van Zant
- The
Wreckers
Horizon Award
- Miranda
Lambert
- Little Big Town
- Sugarland
- Josh Turner
- Carrie Underwood
Album of the Year
- Hillbilly Deluxe, Brooks & Dunn
- Me and My
Gang, Rascal Flatts
- Precious Memories, Alan Jackson
- The Road and the Radio, Kenny Chesney
- Time Well
Wasted, Brad Paisley
Single of the Year
- "Believe," Brooks & Dunn
- "Better Life," Keith Urban
- "Jesus, Take the Wheel," Carrie Underwood
- "Summertime," Kenny
Chesney
- "When I Get Where I'm Going," Brad Paisley (Featuring
Dolly Parton)
Song of the Year
- "8th of November," Big Kenny and John Rich
- "Believe," Craig
Wiseman and Ronnie Dunn
- "Jesus, Take the Wheel," Hillary Lindsey,
Brett James and Gordie Sampson
- "Tonight I Wanna Cry," Keith Urban
and Monty Powell
- "When I Get Where I'm Going," Rivers Rutherford
and George Teren
Musical Event
- "Building Bridges," Brooks & Dunn (Guest vocals by Sheryl Crow
and Vince Gill)
- "Like We Never Loved at All," Faith Hill
(Featuring Tim McGraw)
- "Politically Uncorrect," Gretchen Wilson
(Featuring Merle Haggard)
- "When I Get Where I'm Going," Brad
Paisley (Featuring Dolly Parton)
- "Who Says You Can't Go Home,"
Bon Jovi (Duet With Jennifer Nettles of Sugarland)
Music Video of the Year
- "8th of November," Big &
Rich
- "Believe," Brooks & Dunn
- "Jesus, Take the Wheel,"
Carrie Underwood
- "Kerosene," Miranda Lambert
- "When I Get
Where I'm Going," Brad Paisley (Featuring Dolly Parton)
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