Country music awards set for three-way showdown
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The Country Music Association awards   are a three-way showdown between Brad Paisley, Keith Urban and   Kenny Chesney, while the Dixie Chicks were snubbed again with   not a single nomination on Wednesday.
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Country music fans continue to be a fickle bunch. Country sales were up 12 percent last year, with three albums among the year's overall top sellers &#151; a good year on Music Row.
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George Strait returned this year to the Country Music Association awards with top nominations including entertainer and male vocalist of the year.
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The popular country music act of Brooks &amp; Dunn head the entertainment lineup for the Republican National Convention in New York that starts in a week.
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With several country  music legends set to testify before the Federal Communications  Commission during a hearing in Nashville on media ownership  next week, the agency might feel as if it's in the Grand Ole  Opry instead of the campus of Belmont University.
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Nominees for the 40th annual Country Music Association Awards, to be held Nov. 6 in Nashville, Tenn:
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Brooks &amp; Dunn and Brad Paisley were both nominated for six Country Music Association Awards on Wednesday, but Ronnie Dunn emerged as the leader with seven nominations, including one for the group's inspirational song "Believe."
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NASHVILLE, Tennessee  - Texan George Strait, once called a "honky tonk Sinatra," led the list of the 42nd Academy of Country Music Awards nominees announced on Monday at Nashville's Country Music Hall of Fame.
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Supercross is shaping up to be the latest battleground in the fight over media consolidation.
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Tim McGraw's "Live Like You Were Dying" won song of the year and single of the year, and Kenny Chesney took entertainer of the year and album of the year honors at the Country Music Association awards Tuesday night.
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Kenny Chesney won the Country Music Association's top "Entertainer of the Year" award along with the "Album of the Year" prize at Tuesday night's 38th annual CMA awards show telecast in the Grand Ole Opry.
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Country music acts are one of the few highlights in an off year for concert tours. At least seven of the 25 top grossing tours this year are likely to be country artists &#151; up from five last year and only two a few years ago, according to the industry trade magazine Billboard.
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Following is the list of nominees for the 42nd Annual Academy of Country Music Awards announced Monday in Nashville. The awards will be presented May 15 in Las Vegas.
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For more than a dozen artists, nominations for the American Music Awards came in twos and threes.
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NASHVILLE, Tenn.  - The Country Music Association  on Monday announced the nominees for its annual awards show  that will feature the induction of veteran singer Kris  Kristofferson into the Country Music Hall of Fame.
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Pop diva Mariah Carey is nominated for three prizes at this year's American Music Awards.
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NASHVILLE, Tennessee  - Kenny Chesney captured country music's top prize -- Entertainer of the Year -- for the third time on Wednesday in an awards show that also saw big wins for Brad Paisley and Carrie Underwood.