Fan Voting for Entertainer and New Artist of the Year: The Academy of Country Music’s professional

Eric Church leads the nominations for the 48th Academy Country Music Awards with nine nominations, including Male Vocalist of the Year and his second consecutive nod for Album of the Year and Video of the Year. He is twice nominated for Song of the Year for "Springsteen," as both artist and composer. Church also earned nominations for Single of the Year for "Springsteen" and for Vocal Event of the Year for "The Only Way I Know" with Jason Aldean and Luke Bryan.
Nominees were announced today (Feb. 13) via the second annual digital press conference on the Academy's Facebook and Twitter accounts. Featured in the video announcements were      Sheryl Crow ,  The Band Perry ,  Little Big Town ,  Scotty McCreery ,  Ryan Seacrest ,  2 Broke Girls  star  Beth Behrs ,  The Talk hosts ( Julie Chen, Sarah Gilbert, Sharon Osbourne, Aisha Tyler,  and  Sheryl Underwood ), plus  Entertainment Tonight  co-anchors  Nancy O'Dell  and  Rob Marciano.
Hunter Hayes received six nominations, including New Male Vocalist of the Year and Video of the Year for "Wanted." He is also twice nominated in the Song of the Year category as the artist and composer, as well as in the Single Record of the Year category as the artist and producer family travel for "Wanted."
Miranda Lambert earned five nominations, including her second nomination for Entertainer of the Year and seventh consecutive nod for Female Vocalist of the Year. In addition, Lambert was nominated for Single Record and twice nominated for Song, as artist and composer, for "Over You." Lambert is the reigning ACM Female Vocalist.
Reigning Entertainer of the Year, Taylor Swift received five nominations, including her fourth consecutive nod for Entertainer of the Year. If Swift wins Entertainer, this will be her third consecutive win in that category. Swift is nominated family travel for Female Vocalist, Video for "We Are Never Ever Getting Back Together," and Album for Red as the artist and producer.
Luke Bryan received four nominations, including his first ever for Entertainer of the Year and Male Vocalist of the Year. He also received nominations for Album for tailgates tanlines and Vocal Event for "The Only Way I Know" with Aldean and Church.
Fan Voting for Entertainer and New Artist of the Year:  The Academy of Country Music's professional membership selects the nominees and winners of the ACM Awards, and selects the final top five nominees for Entertainer of the Year. New Artist of the Year final nominees were selected by a combined vote of the fans and professional members. Fan voting for New Artist of the Year and Entertainer of the Year begins on March 25, 2013 at 3:00 PM ET/12noon PT at VoteACM.com . Fan voting for New Artist of the Year will close at 5 p.m. PT on April 7, 2013 (before the live show starts) and fan voting for Entertainer will close during the third hour of the live broadcast. The winners of both awards will be announced live during the ACM Awards.  Brantley Gilbert, Jana Kramer and Florida Georgia Line are the nominees for ACM New Artist of the Year Presented by Kohl's Department Stores. In the first round of fan voting at GACtv.com, Gilbert, Kramer and FGL were respectively voted New Male Vocalist, New Female Vocalist, and New Vocal Duo or Group of the Year. The winners of those categories go on to compete for overall ACM New Artist of the Year Presented by Kohl s.
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