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CMA Awards 2009: Twitter Style

The night has come! The 2009 CMA Awards Show is upon us. Big love out to all of those who participated in the Twitter-votes the past week. If all of your predictions come true tonight, we’ll be sure to have some sort of celebration. Without any more wait, though, here are the big results. The winner of your Twitter-voted just-for-fun 2009 Entertainer of the Year is…

The results of your votes:

1. Keith Urban (37 percent)

2. Brad Paisley (28 percent)

3. Kenny Chesney (17 percent)

4. Taylor Swift (15 percent)

5. George Strait (3 percent)

Tune into ABC tonight at 7 p.m. CT to see the actual show and find out the real results!

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Male Vocalist of the Year

The results of your votes:

1. Keith Urban (54 percent)

2. Brad Paisley (23 percent)

3a. George Strait (10 percent)

3b. Kenny Chesney (10 percent)

5. Darius Rucker (3 percent)

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Female Vocalist of the Year

The results of your votes:

1. Carrie Underwood (42 percent)

2a. Miranda Lambert (18 percent)

2b. Reba McEntire (18 percent)

4. Taylor Swift (12 percent)

5. Martina McBride (10 percent)

Tune in Wednesday night to find out the official results and check back in with us later today to cast your vote for the Male Vocalist of the Year.

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The Lady Antebellum love continues on night four. After already being voted by our Twitter friends as the top vocal group, they just picked up another award for “Single of the Year”.

Single of the Year

The results of your votes:

1. “I Run To You”, Lady Antebellum (43 percent)

2. “In Color”, Jamey Johnson (32 percent)

3. “Then”, Brad Paisley (14 percent)

4. “People Are Crazy”, Billy Currington (10 percent)

5. “Chicken Fried”, Zac Brown Band (1 percent)

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Night three brings us your votes for “Vocal Duo of the Year”. Would there be any love for Brooks & Dunn in what may be their final year on the ballot, or would Sugarland clamp down and hold claim to what may now be their annual award?

Vocal Duo of the Year

The results of your votes:

1. Sugarland (41 percent)

2. Brooks & Dunn (30 percent)

3. Montgomery Gentry (19 percent)

4. Big and Rich (7 percent)

5. Joey + Rory (3 percent)

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Night number two of our all-for-fun CMA Awards voting determined the “New Artist of the Year”. As many of our readers pointed out, the majority of the nominees are hardly “new”, but thanks to the CMA’s broad description of the word, all will gladly compete to take home the prize.

New Artist of the Year

The results of your votes:

1. Jake Owen (44 percent)

2. Darius Rucker (31 percent)

3. Jamey Johnson (11 percent)

4. Randy Houser (9 percent)

5. Zac Brown Band (5 percent)

He’s been around a few years, but if the majority of our voters have it their way, Jake Owen will be named the “New Artist of the Year”.

New Music

• Montgomery Gentry: “Oughta Be More Songs About That”
• Brad Paisley: “American Saturday Night”
• Clay Walker: “All Wrapped Up In You”
• Jonathan Singleton & The Grove: “Look Who’s Back In Love”
• Steve Azar: “Sunshine”

George Strait and Reba Announce Tour

• The King and Queen of Country music have announced a four month arena tour to begin in January of 2010. George Strait and Reba will perform cuts from their new albums, as well as all the classics, in stops ranging from Baltimore, MD, to Des Moines, IA. For a full list of stops, visit here.
• Lyric Street Records has restructured, announcing what it calls a “shutter” of sister-label Carolwood Records. Much of the Carolwood staff will transfer over Lyric Street, but at least three regional staffers have been let go. Love and Theft and Trent Tomlinson have been transferred over to Lyric Street, already the home of Rascal Flatts, Bucky Covington, Sarah Buxton, among others.
• Billy Currington will be a special guest at the 83rd Annual Macy’s Thanksgiving Day Parade this year. The parade will run from 9 a.m. to noon (all time zones) on NBC.
• In other parade news, John Rich will be the Grand Marshall for the 57th Annual Piedmont Natural Gas Nashville Christmas Parade to be held on December 4th. The event benefits Share The Warmth, an energy assistance program that helps those who struggle to pay their energy bills.
• Vote for you believe should be named the 2009 CMA “New Artist of the Year” right now!