Last April, Carrie Underwood became the first female to win Entertainer of the Year honors at the Academy of County Music Awards since 2000.
She’ll get a chance to do it all over again Sunday, April 18, at the 45th annual awards show.
Nominations for ACM awards were announced Tuesday morning, and American Idol’s season four champ is up for honors in five categories with a total of six nominations.
Only one country act — Lady Antebellum — received more nominations (7). Like Carrie, Miranda Lambert (Go, Miranda!) received six nominations. Taylor Swift received five.
Should Carrie be crowned Entertainer of the Year, she’d become the first female to accomplish that feat. Fan voting for the honor begins April 1 at VoteACM.com and runs through the start of the live show.
Other nominees for Entertainer of the Year: Kenny Chesney, Toby Keith, Brad Paisley, George Strait, Keith Urban, the Zac Brown Band and, of course, Taylor Swift.
Carrie is also nominated as top female vocalist of the year, an honor she has won three straight years.
(For lots of photos and coverage of last year’s show, go here and here.)
Her other nominations are for album of year for “Play On,” vocal event of the year for her “I Told You So” duet with Randy Travis and song of the year (as artist and composer) for “Cowboy Casanova.”
Her competition:
Female vocalist of the year: Miranda Lambert, Reb McEntire, Taylor Swift and Lee Ann Womack.
Album of the year: “American Saturday Night” by Brad Paisley, “Lady Antebellum” by Lady Antebellum, “Revolution” by Miranda Lambert and “The Foundation” by the Zac Brown Band.
Song of the year: “Need You Now” by Lady Antebellum, “People Are Crazy” by Billy Currington, “White Liar” by Miranda Lambert, “You Belong With Me” by Taylor Swift.
Vocal event of the year: “Hillbilly Bone” by Blake Shelton and Trace Adkins; “Honky Tonk Stomp” by Brooks and Dunn with Billy Gibbons; “I’m Alive” by Kenny Chesney with Dave Matthews and “Seeing Stars” by Jack Ingram with Patty Griffin.
For a complete list of nominees, go here.
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