NASHVILLE
– “Country Music’s Biggest Morning” will be held on the world’s biggest
stage, when Jason Aldean and Lady Antebellum announce the final
nominees for “The 46th Annual CMA Awards” on Wednesday, Sept. 5 from “Good Morning
America” and B.B. King Blues Club and Grill in New York City.
Aldean
and Lady Antebellum will announce the final nominees in five CMA Awards categories
live from the “Good Morning America” studios in the heart of Times Square
on ABC. The announcement will air in the 8:30 AM/ET half-hour segment of the
morning news program.
Following the announcement, at 9:15 AM/ET, Aldean and Lady
Antebellum will head over to B.B. King Blues Club and Grill (237 West 42nd Street, between
Seventh and Eighth Avenues) to announce the finalists in the remaining seven categories.
The last time all of the CMA Awards nominees were announced in New York City was 2005.
"The CMA
Awards are ‘Country Music's Biggest Night™,’ and it's something that all
of us look forward to all year. From the day the nominations are announced up
until the show, there's a lot of build-up and anticipation for the Awards and
also for the performances,” explained Aldean. "I feel honored to be able to
help make the nominations announcement on ‘Good Morning America,’ and hopefully
I'll get to read some of my friends' names that morning.”
"I'll never
forget our first CMA nomination and what that felt like," added Lady Antebellum's
Charles Kelley. "The CMAs have been really good to us the last few
years, and it's still unbelievable to me when I see our name on a list of nominees.
That night is always such a blast because it's your chance to catch up with everyone
and celebrate Country Music and all the hard work put in throughout the year."
In Nashville,
members of CMA and the media will be invited to a breakfast (8:00 AM/CT) at CMA to learn
the nominees with the rest of the country via live stream at CMAawards.com.
Lee
Brice will be on hand in Nashville to announce the finalists for
the 2012 CMA Broadcast Award Personality and Radio Station of the Year in four
categories (small, medium, large, and major markets), as well as the finalists
for the CMA National Broadcast Personality of the Year at 8:15 AM/CT. CMA’s radio
partner, Premiere Networks, will carry the Awards and Broadcast Award nominations to Country Radio.
“This
is the Year of Country Radio and we are very excited to include our membership
in the announcement of the nominees as we recognize the outstanding achievements
of these radio professionals and stations,” said Steve Moore, CMA Chief Executive Officer.
The current
CMA Album of the Year, Aldean’s double-Platinum fourth record My Kinda Party was the top-selling
Country album of 2011 and the No. five top-seller in all of music, spawning five
consecutive No. 1 hits. With more than six million records sold and nine career
No. 1 singles, Aldean is set to release his highly anticipated fifth studio album
Night Train on Oct. 16, with the first single “Take A Little
Ride” already posting record sales and radio airplay numbers. The Georgia
native’s 2012 MY KINDA PARTY TOUR, presented by State Farm®, has sold out every
show so far this year, many in a matter of minutes, with his first stadium show
in August selling out more than two months in advance.
The six-time, CMA
Award-winning and reigning Vocal Group of the Year Lady Antebellum’s Platinum
third disc Own The Night debuted at the No. 1 position on Billboard’s Top 200 and has
spawned two No. 1 hits “We Owned The Night” and “Just A Kiss” tallying
six career chart-topping hits. The album also serves as inspiration for their
current headlining OWN THE NIGHT 2012 WORLD TOUR, which recently marked an attendance
milestone of more than one million fans after completing legs in the U.S., Canada,
and Europe. The trio will wrap their World Tour in October with already sold out shows in Australia.
Aldean
received his first of seven CMA Award nominations in 2007 for the Horizon Award
(now known as New Artist of the Year). In 2011, he was nominated for five CMA
Awards, including Entertainer, Male Vocalist, and Single of the Year (“Don’t
You Wanna Stay”). He picked up two trophies for Musical Event of the Year for
“Don’t You Wanna Stay” with Kelly Clarkson and Album of the Year for My Kinda Party.
Lady Antebellum
has won six CMA Awards starting with New Artist of the Year in 2008; Single of
the Year (“I Run to You”) in 2009 and again for “Need You Now” in 2010;
and Vocal Group of the Year in 2009, 2010, and 2011.
“We are pleased
to have these dynamic artists bring these important and highly anticipated announcements
to the media capital of the world, and still be able to share the excitement live
with our constituents in Nashville,” Moore said.
Brice recently
topped the charts with his first Platinum-selling No. 1 hit, “A Woman Like
You,” from his new Curb Records’ album, Hard 2 Love. Brice also scored
back-to-back Billboard Awards in 2010 and 2011 for the most played Country Song of the Year.
“It’s
been a great year for me at Country radio,” commented Brice. “I’m proud
to be able to honor those stations that have done so much for me this year by
announcing the finalists for the CMA Broadcast Awards live from Nashville.”
The audio
announcement of the CMA Awards nominees will be available via satellite and FTP
from CMA’s radio partner Premiere Networks. CMA Broadcast Awards finalist announcements
will also be available via FTP. Premiere has provided outstanding radio coverage
of the CMA Awards nominations since 1997. Any Country radio station interested
in receiving the radio package, including the nominations feed, may contact Premiere
Affiliate Relations at (818) 377-5300.
The CMA Awards nominees and winners
are determined by the 11,000 industry professional members of CMA, which was formed
in 1958 as the first trade organization to promote an individual genre of music.
The first “CMA Awards Banquet and Show” was held in 1967. The following year,
the CMA Awards was broadcast on NBC television for the first time – making it
the longest-running annual music awards program on network television. The show
aired on NBC through 1971 and on the CBS Television Network from 1972 through
2005 before moving to ABC in 2006. ABC will be the network home of the CMA Awards through 2021.
The third
and final ballot will be emailed to CMA members Oct. 4. Voting for the
CMA Awards final ballot ends at 5:00 PM/CT, Oct. 22.
The 2011 CMA Awards was
the No. 1 entertainment show for the week among the key advertising Adults 18-49
sales demographic. The special beat its nearest competition by 5.6 million viewers
and by 26 percent in Adults 18-49, according to Nielsen.
Held during November
Sweeps (Nov. 9), “The 45th Annual CMA Awards” on ABC dominated the night winning
all six of its half-hours in total viewers and Adults 18-49. With a primetime
sweep, ABC finished No. 1 on Wednesday in Viewers across all key demos including
Adult, Men, and Women (18-34/18-49/25-54), as well as finishing as the top broadcaster with Teens (12-17).
In Total
Viewers (16.4 million; 17.49 Live+7) and Adults 18-49 (4.8/13; 5.2/14 Live+7)
it was ABC’s strongest Wednesday in two years with an estimated 35 million viewers
watching at least some portion of the three-hour live gala.
“The
46th Annual CMA Awards” is a production of the Country Music Association.
Robert Deaton is the Executive Producer, Paul Miller is the Director,
and David Wild is the writer. The special will be shot in high definition
and broadcast in 720 Progressive (720P), ABC’s selected HDTV format, with 5.1
channel surround sound.
“Good Morning America” is a two-hour, live program
anchored by Robin Roberts and George Stephanopoulos. Josh Elliott is the news anchor,
Lara Spencer is lifestyle anchor, and Sam Champion is the weather
anchor. The morning news program airs Monday-Friday (7:00-9:00 AM/ET) on the ABC Television Network.
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is the Official Ride of Country Music. American Airlines is the Official
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