All That is the ACM Awards

If Kenny Chesney wins entertainer of the year on the Academy of Country Music Awards this Sunday, it will be his fifth consecutive win. He’s up against Brad Paisley, George Strait, Keith Urban and Carrie Underwood. If Carrie wins, she will be only the seventh female ever to take home the award. She and George Strait are also up for album of the year, along with Montgomery Gentry, Taylor Swift and Jamey Johnson.

And the Presenters Are…..

Billy Ray Cyrus, Martina McBride, Blake Shelton, Jason Aldean, Kellie Pickler and Dierks Bentley aren’t nominated for any Academy of Country Music Awards this year. But they’re headed to Las Vegas to present awards at the show. Jamie Foxx, Jennifer Love Hewitt and Matthew McConaughey are some of the non-country presenters.

Does it matter that some of the awards are fan voted? Kenny says he doesn’t like it ….. others say it really doesn’t matter.

This will be the second year the Academy of Country Music’s entertainer of the year is chosen by the fans. And even though Kenny Chesney won it last year, he made it clear that he thinks the award should remain industry-voted. Keith Urban tells “GAC Nights” that if he wins an award, it doesn’t matter who it comes from, because it’s just nice to be acknowledged for what he’s done.

Jake Owen and Zac Brown of the Zac Brown Band both agree that fans should pick the winner. Jake says when it’s industry-voted, labels can make deals for their artists to win, but no one can control how the public votes. Owen and Brown are both up for top new artist, the only other fan-voted award.

The ACMs air live on CBS this Sunday at 8 p.m. Eastern.

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