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43rd CMA Awards Nominees Announced
Below are the nominees for the 43rd CMA Awards which will be broadcast live from the Sommet Center in Nashville November 11 on ABC. There’s not a lot of turnover in the artist selections from last year, but let us know what you think of this year’s selections in the comments.
Entertainer of the Year
Kenny Chesney
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The 9513 Last.fm Chart Update (8-30-09)
Welcome to our new members, as our group has grown to 111 members as of this writing. Without any major releases this past week, the stats have had a chance to settle down a little bit. When they did, Johnny Cash settled back into the #1 spot with 24 listeners. Right behind him with 23 [...]
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Carrie Underwood’s Third Album Titled Play On; Kitty Wells Celebrates 90 Years
Carrie Underwood’s Nov. 3rd album will be called Play On.
The Chicago Sun-Time’s Bobby Reed reviews the first of two Carrie Underwood sets at Ravina in Higland Park, IL:
The back-to-back performances of “I Told You So” (originally a hit for Randy Travis) and “Twisted” illustrated the fine line Underwood walks between country and pop music. That [...]Continue reading "Carrie Underwood’s Third Album Titled Play On; Kitty Wells Celebrates 90 Years"
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The 9513 Last.fm Chart Update (8-23-09)
Even with a highly anticipated new album, Reba McEntire couldn’t manage to top the perennial 1-2 combo of George Strait (28 listeners) and Sugarland (24) on the Top Artists charts this week. Her 21 listeners for the week are fairly impressive, but when one of the biggest stars in country music in the last 30 [...]
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The 9513 Last.fm Chart Update (8-9-09)
Somehow, The 9513 Top Artist chart just doesn’t look right if it doesn’t have a guy in a cowboy hat as the #1 artist. Or on the occasions where Sugarland is on top, a guy in a dorky fedora. This isn’t one of those occasions, as George Strait is far and away the #1 artist [...]
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Miranda Lambert Takes Revolution to the Ryman; Lee Ann Womack To Host ACM Honors
Revolution at the Ryman: Miranda Lambert plans to play all the new tracks from her upcoming album, Revolution, in sequence at the Ryman Auditorium just five days before its Sept. 29 release.
The second annual ACM Honors, a ceremony honoring the off-camera category winners of the Academy of Country Music Awards, will be hosted by Lee [...]Continue reading "Miranda Lambert Takes Revolution to the Ryman; Lee Ann Womack To Host ACM Honors"
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What’s the Difference: Texas vs. Nashville; The Devil Makes Three Free Live Session
Brad from Galleywinter on the homogenization of the Texas music scene:
When it came back into flavor in the late 90’s, it had an edge and was different. Then, as has been pointed out so many times here and elsewhere, the scene got flooded with no-talent hacks singing bad beer-soaked GCDC poetry. People that can’t write, [...] -
The 9513 Last.fm Chart Update (8-2-09)
We’ve got to go all the way back to the very end of May to find a female artist at the top of The 9513 charts, and that was Jennifer Nettles as one-half of Sugarland. This week, we’ve got three of them at #1, courtesy of the Dixie Chicks. Unlike some of the artists who [...]
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75 Injured at Big Valley Jamboree; Sengelmann Hall Reopened; Free Jamey Johnson Download
The third and final day of the Big Valley Jamboree near Camrose, Alberta was canceled due to severe gusts of wind that caused the mainstage to collapse on Saturday, killing one person an injuring 75 others. One of the injured was country singer Billy Currington (black eye), who was on the stage at the time [...]
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The 9513 Last.fm Chart Update (7-26-09)
After about 11 months in existence, The 9513 group on Last.fm added its 100th member this week. It’s a nice milestone for something that started as an idea on the forums. Thanks to everyone who’s a member and is contributing to our charts. If you’re not on Last.fm and want to be a part, all [...]
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