CMA Nominees

Today the nominees were announced for the Country Music Association Awards, which takes place this year on November 10th in Nashville.  The Country Music Association (CMA) was founded in 1958 in Nashville, Tennessee.  The association has 223 members who work to promote country music.  The CMA hosted its first award show in 1967 in Nashville and the first CMA Award Show was televised in 1968.  The CMA's have 12 award catergories for the country artists to compete in and usually have 5 nominees for each category.  There are also 9 awards given to the radio stations that play the country music.  The winners for each cateogory are voted on by business members of the Country Music Association.

The major award for the CMA is Entertainer of the Year, which in 1967 was awarded to Eddy Arnold and last year was awarded to Taylor Swift.  The two other major awards is Top Male Vocalist and Top Female Vocalist.

And the nominees for the 2010 CMA Awards for the first five categories are:

New Artist of the Year
Luke Bryan
Easton Corbin
Jerrod Nienmann
Chris Young
Zac Brown Band

Vocal Group of the Year
Lady Antebellum
Little Big Town
Rascal Flatts
The Band Perry
Zac Brown Band

Vocal Dou of the Year
Brooks & Dunn
Joey & Rory
Montgomery Gentry
Steel Magnolia
Sugarland

Single of the Year ( Award goes to Producer and Artist)
"A Little More Country Than That"
Easton Corbin
Produced by Carson Chamberlain
Mercury Nashville

"Hillbilly Bone"
Blake Shelton featuring Trace Adkins
Produced by Scott Hendricks
Reprise Records

"Need You Now"
Lady Antebellum
Produced by Paul Worley and Lady Antebellum
Capitol Records Nashville

"The House That Built Me"
Miranda Lambert
Produced by Frank Liddell and Mike Wrucke
Columbia Nashville

"White Liar"
Miranda Lambert
Produced by Frank Liddell and Mike Wrucke
Columbia Nashville

Song of the Year (Award goes to Songwriter)
"A Little More Country Than That"
Rory Lee Feek, Don Poythress, and Wynn Varble

"Need You Now"
Dave Haywood, Charles Kelley, Hillary Scott, and Josh Kear

"The House That Built Me"
Tom Douglas and Allen Shamblin

"Toes"
Zac Brown, Wyatt Durrette, John Driskell Hopkins, and Shawn Mullins

"White Liar"
Miranda Lambert and Natalie Hemby

Music Video of the Year (Award goes to Artist and Director)
"Hillbilly Bone"
Blake Shelton featuring Trace Adkins
Directed by Roman White

"Need You Now"
Lady Antebellum
Directed by David McClister

"The House That Built Me"
Miranda Lambert
Directed by Trey Fanjoy

"Water"
Brad Paisley
Directed by Jim Shea

"White Liar"
Miranda Lambert
Directed by Chris Hicky

Musician of the Year
Paul Franklin - Steel Guitar
Dann Huff - Guitar
Brent Mason - Guitar
MacMcAnally - Guitar
Randy Scruggs - Guitar



The rest of the nominees will be announced tomorrow on ABC's "Good Morning America" by Miranda Lambert and Dierks Bentley and I will let you know about the nominations then.