There are awards shows and award shows. You will notice some stars seem to shine on one and stay on the sidelines on another. Fox Network’s American Country Awards may have seemed that way but the important thing is that everybody gets their time in the spotlight.
Our congratulations to Thompson Square. They’ve been deserving a lot of accolades thrown in their direction and they won three tonight: Single of the Year by a Group, Single by a New Artist and Video by a New Artist. Here’s the story at Taste of Country.
Also, a big congratulations to Jason Aldean for collecting six of the ACA award guitars: Artist of the Year, Touring Artist of the Year, Album and Single of the Year by a Male Artist for “My Kinda Party” and Single and Music Video of the Year in a Collaboration with Kelly Clarkson for “Don’t You Wanna Stay.” Brad Paisley took Male Artist of the Year and Carrie Underwood took Female Artist of the Year. Toby Keith was the Artist of the Decade.
Here’s the complete list of winners according to E! Online.
Artist of the Year: Jason Aldean
Male Artist of the Year: Brad Paisley
Female Artist of the Year: Carrie Underwood
New Artist of the Year: Scotty McCreery
Breakthrough Artist of the Year: Chris Young
Album of the Year: My Kinda Party, Jason Aldean
Single of the Year: “Voices,” Chris Young
Single of the Year, Male Artist:
Single of the Year, Female Artist: “Mama’s Song,” Carrie Underwood
Single of the Year by a Group: “Are You Gonna Kiss Me or Not,” Thompson Square
Single of the Year, New Artist: “Are You Gonna Kiss Me or Not,” Thompson Square
Single of the Year, Vocal Collaboration: “Don’t You Wanna Stay,” Jason Aldean and Kelly Clarkson
Touring Artist of the Year: Jason Aldean
Music Video of the Year: “Who Are You When I’m Not Looking,” Blake Shelton
Music Video, Male Artist: “Who Are You When I’m Not Looking,” Blake Shelton
Music Video, Female Artist: Carrie Underwood, “Mama’s Song”
Music Video, Duo, Group or Collaboration: “Don’t You Wanna Say,” Jason Aldean and Kelly Clarkson
Music Video, New Artist: “Are You Gonna Kiss Me or Not,” Thompson Square
Greatest Hits Award: Alabama
Artist of the Decade: Toby Keith
Last chance to vote for the People’s Choice Awards 2012! The show will air Wednesday, Jan. 11, 2012 at 9/8c on CBS. Taylor is nominated for Favorite Country Artist, Favorite Female Artist and Favorite Tour Headliner.
Coming up in the Calendar!
- December 13: Oh, come on. You know
- December 13: The CMT Artists Of The Year event honoring Jason Aldean, Kenny Chesney, Lady Antebellum, Brad Paisley and Taylor Swift airs on CMT at 9PM ET/PT.
- December 29:Paul Sidoti, Amos Heller and Mike Meadows along with other musicians will perform at Tequila Sunrise – A Tribute to the Eagles at the House of Blues in Cleveland, Ohio. I really wish I could go to this one, but it’s during the holiday season. Here’s the event on Facebook.
- January 11: People’s Choice Awards 2012. Taylor is nominated for Favorite Country Artist, Favorite Female Artist and Favorite Tour Headliner.
(Source: Taste of Country, E! Online)
The Swift Agency 
I was convinced you were having a joke, til I checked…not one single award?!?! How can that be…really? I can’t get my head around the fact that the Entertainer of the Year didn’t get an award.
I must be missing something, I understand that Taylor can’t possibly win every award she’s nominated for (well she can, but other folks may not care for that so much) but these are fan voted awards and knowing that and knowing Taylors fans makes me really question the validity of these particular awards.
Congratulations to Carrie Underwood on her 3 wins.
Here’s the way I see this. It’s about the AMA’s and ACA’s having voting at the same time. I voted for Taylor every day but just once. You could vote as many times as you wanted if you created a lot of email accounts. Maybe other fans did that. I spent all my time voting thousands of times for Taylor for the AMA’s instead. And my votes weren’t wasted. That look on her face when she won Artist of the Year was great. I’d take that award over the six she didn’t win tonight. Maybe Taylor figured she wouldn’t win much tonight since she didn’t show up. Was this only the second year for this sgow? Someone told me it was. Maybe this show was created to give everyone else a chance against Taylor. 🙂
I agree… Jason Aldean is a great country artist and so is Carrie Underwood, but neither of them have the fan base that Taylor has, and Taylor’s fans are all very active in their support for her. So it’s a little hard to comprehend that she didn’t win any fan voted awards at the ACAs. Maybe the auditors should be called in to check the results.
A little sad but… It’s gonna be alright, I believe that!!!