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NASHVILLE – Country superstars Brad Paisley and
Carrie Underwood will be returning to host “Country Music’s
Biggest Night™” for the seventh consecutive time in 2014. “The 48th Annual CMA Awards” airs live from the Bridgestone
Arena in Nashville on Wednesday, Nov.
5 (8:00-11:00 PM/ET) on the ABC Television Network.
The popular pair used “CMA Music
Festival: Country’s Night to Rock” to make the announcement when the concert
special aired last night on ABC. In the segment, Paisley and Underwood answered
CMA Awards trivia questions posed by Little Big Town (spoiler
alert: Underwood wins). See the segment here.“Carrie and Brad are unmatched as a hosting team,”
said Sarah Trahern, CMA Chief Executive Officer. “They have
impeccable comic timing, industry credibility, critical acclaim, and a natural
rapport that makes them popular with our live audience and the viewers at home.
We are delighted to have them presiding over 'Country Music’s Biggest Night.’”
“Brad and Carrie are
more than hosts, they are an important part of the CMA Awards brand,” said CMA
Awards Executive Producer Robert Deaton. “They bring so much
to the table beyond what you see on stage during the broadcast. They are gifted
creative collaborators, who routinely raise the bar and set the standard for live television hosting.”
"Over time there's been
an evolution of who we are as hosts of the show - what fits, what's comfortable,
what's real, and we love being a part of the creative team," added Underwood.
"We feel the responsibility of what this night means to our music community, to
our fellow artists, and to the viewers at home."
“Shoot, we've written a bunch of the jokes every
year. This'll just be the first time we have to pay union dues,” quipped Paisley.
Paisley has won 14 CMA
Awards since receiving the Horizon Award (now New Artist of the Year) in 2000,
including Entertainer of the Year (2010), Male Vocalist (2007, 2008, 2009), and
Album (2006 for Time Well Wasted). He won Musical Event of the Year three
times, first in 2004 with Alison Krauss for “Whiskey Lullaby,” second in 2006
for “When I Get Where I’m Going” with Dolly Parton, and a third time in
2009 for “Start a Band” with Keith Urban. He claimed the Vocal Event of the
Year trophy in 2001 for “Too Country” with Bill Anderson, George Jones, and
Buck Owens; and won Music Video of the Year four times, including “I’m Gonna
Miss Her (The Fishin’ Song)” (2002), “Whiskey Lullaby” (with Krauss, 2004),
“Online” (2007) and “Waitin’ on a Woman” (featuring Andy Griffith, 2008).
He is No. 5 on the list of top CMA Awards winners of all time.
Paisley is a critically-acclaimed
singer, songwriter, guitarist, and entertainer whose talents have earned him numerous
accolades including three Grammys. A proud member of the Grand Ole Opry since
2001, Paisley earned the first of his 22 No. 1 singles in 1999, writing or co-writing
19 of them. His latest single, “River Bank,” is from his upcoming album, Moonshine
in the Trunk, to be released Aug.
25. Paisley is currently an expert on ABC’s new hit singing competition
“Rising Star,” airing Sunday nights
(9:00 PM/ET), through Aug. 24.
Paisley also made multiple contributions to the new Disney animated film “Planes:
Fire & Rescue,” with a voice cameo as a pick-up truck named Bubba, as well
as recording two songs for the soundtrack: “Runway Romance” and “All In,”
which Paisley wrote and serves as the final song in the movie. Paisley is currently
headlining his “Country Nation World Tour presented by KRAFT Cheese” through
the fall. Visit bradpaisley.com for more information.
Underwood has received
five CMA Awards in her career – three consecutive Female Vocalist of the Year
trophies (2006-2008), as well as Single of the Year (2007 for “Before He Cheats”),
and the Horizon Award (2006). Her 18 career CMA Awards nominations include three
for Album of the Year for Carnival Ride (2008), Play
On (2010), and Blown Away (2013); three nominations
for Music Video of the Year for “Jesus Take the Wheel” (2006), “Before He
Cheats” (2007), and “Blown Away” (2013); and Musical Event of the Year for
“I Told You So” featuring Randy Travis (2009). She has been nominated for
Female Vocalist of the Year every year since first being nominated in 2006 (2006-2013).
Underwood emerged from
the promise of her 2005 “American Idol” win to become a true multi-format,
multi-media superstar, spanning achievements in music, television, and film,
where the six-time Grammy Award winner has amassed more than 95 major
honors, sold more than 64 million records worldwide, and recorded 18
No. 1 singles, nine of which she co-wrote. Underwood was recognized as Pollstar’s
Top Female Country Touring Artist for each of her headlining tours in 2008, 2010,
and 2012. Her four albums, Some Hearts, Carnival Ride, Play
On, and Blown Away – each certified multi-Platinum or
Platinum – tallied 38 weeks at No. 1 on Billboard’s Top Country
Albums chart with songs that have now been streamed more than 800 million times
worldwide. A proud member of the Grand Ole Opry since 2008, Underwood last year
became the musical voice of primetime television’s No. 1 program, “Sunday
Night Football” and starred as Maria von Trapp in the three-hour,
holiday blockbuster and Emmy-nominated, “The Sound of Music Live!,” whose
airings attracted 44 million viewers.
The CMA Awards nominees and winners are determined
by more than 7,000 professional members of CMA, which was the first trade organization
formed to promote an individual genre of music in 1958. Winners of “The 48th Annual CMA Awards” will be determined
in a final round of voting by eligible members of CMA. CMA Awards balloting is
officiated by the international accounting firm of Deloitte & Touche LLP.
The eligibility period for the 2014 CMA Awards is July 1, 2013 to June 30, 2014.
The second ballot will
be emailed to CMA members on Tuesday,
Aug. 12. Voting for the second ballot closes Friday, Aug. 22 (5:00 PM/CT).
The final nominees in each of the 12 categories will
be announced in early September. The third and final ballot will be emailed to
CMA members on Thursday, Oct. 9.
Voting for the CMA Awards final ballot ends Monday,
Oct. 27 (5:00 PM/CT).
“The 47th
Annual CMA Awards” on ABC (Nov. 6, 2013) dominated the night in Total Viewers
and Adults 18-49 (16.8 million and 4.7/13), winning each half-hour and out delivering
runner-up CBS by 7.4 million viewers and by 114 percent in Adults 18-49. In fact,
with the broad-appealing Awards special the Network swept the evening, finishing
No. 1 in Viewers, all key Adult demos (AD18-34/AD18-49/AD25-54) and Teens 12-17
– and was the top broadcaster with Kids 2-11.
The 2013 CMA Awards was up by double digits from the
previous year’s telecast (Nov. 1, 2012), gaining 23 percent in Total Viewers
and 24 percent in Adults 18-49. The CMA Awards drew its biggest audience
in four years, representing its second-most-watched broadcast in eight years (since
2009 and 2005, respectively). In addition, the CMA Awards shot up 41 percent year-to-year
with Men 18-34 (3.1/11 vs. 2.2/8) to a nine-year high – since 2004 (source: Nielsen Media Research).
Ticket information for
the CMA Awards will be announced later this summer with information available
at CMAawards.com,
or follow the conversation on Twitter at #CMAawards.
“The 48th
Annual CMA Awards” is a production of the Country Music Association. Robert
Deaton is the Executive Producer and Paul Miller is
the Director. The CMA Awards will be shot in high definition and broadcast in
720 Progressive (720P), ABC’s selected HDTV format, with 5.1 channel surround sound.
The first “CMA Awards
Banquet and Show” was held in 1967. The following year, the CMA Awards was broadcast
on television for the first time – making it the longest running, annual music
awards program on network TV. The CMA Awards have aired on ABC since 2006. ABC
will be the network home of the CMA Awards and CMA’s other two television properties,
“CMA Music Festival: Country’s Night to Rock” and “CMA Country Christmas,” through 2021.
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| Brad Paisley performing at the Verizon Wireless Amphitheatre- St Louis in May 2013.-photos by Scott Kiefer |
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