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Post by 14887fan on Mar 21, 2014 12:09:01 GMT -5
Off-camera award winners announcedCareer Achievement - Toby Keith, Ronnie Milsap Cliffie Stone Pioneer Award - Bob Beckham Crystal Milestone Award - Merle Haggard Gene Weed Special Achievement Award - Carrie Underwood (first woman to receive this award) Jim Reeves International Award - Rascal Flatts, Steve Buchanan Mae Boren Axton Award - Paul Moore Poet's Award - Jack Clement (posthumous), Dean Dillon, Kris Kristofferson, Buck Owens (posthumous) Songwriter of the Year - Shane McAnally
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Post by Deleted on Mar 21, 2014 13:45:53 GMT -5
Carrie won an ACM! :O That's great!
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Post by clairelarter on Mar 22, 2014 9:02:50 GMT -5
Off-camera award winners announcedCareer Achievement - Toby Keith, Ronnie Milsap Cliffie Stone Pioneer Award - Bob Beckham Crystal Milestone Award - Merle Haggard Gene Weed Special Achievement Award - Carrie Underwood (first woman to receive this award) Jim Reeves International Award - Rascal Flatts, Steve Buchanan Mae Boren Axton Award - Paul Moore Poet's Award - Jack Clement (posthumous), Dean Dillon, Kris Kristofferson, Buck Owens (posthumous) Songwriter of the Year - Shane McAnally I remember that Shane McAnally wrote Chainsaw (TBP)
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Post by McCreerian on Mar 23, 2014 19:55:22 GMT -5
Carrie won an ACM! :O That's great! The irony to this is all the reasons they list as to why she got that award is the reasons why she should have been nominated for EOTY after her 2013 achievements!
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Post by tim on Mar 24, 2014 23:12:24 GMT -5
This evening I heard something interesting on the radio. It was a ACM Entertainer of the Year ad for none other than George Strait letting people know how to vote for him. It was on a Clear Channel owned station with both billboard and mediabase monitoring, so I have to assume this ad isn't limited to this station. Makes me wonder what George's people are doing behind the scenes to get him a win next month. I'm sure the other artists labels are doing something similar, though. Funny, it wasn't all that long ago that there was a huge uproar when Rascal Flatts did something very similar when the ACM's first opened up the Entertainer voting to fans. Seems like they've all but been blacklisted from the awards since.
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Post by Deleted on Mar 24, 2014 23:45:47 GMT -5
I've gotten emails from George's team today...but not from anyone else. I think MCA and George's management are definitely working hard to boost awareness.
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Post by 14887fan on Mar 25, 2014 0:11:08 GMT -5
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Post by countrygirl918 on Mar 25, 2014 17:05:00 GMT -5
I'm not seeing any links to vote for her anywhere before or after the quiz, whether it's been completed or not... Though that would be a clever marketing idea.
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Post by 14887fan on Mar 25, 2014 18:06:01 GMT -5
I'm not seeing any links to vote for her anywhere before or after the quiz, whether it's been completed or not... Though that would be a clever marketing idea. Strange -- maybe that only applies to the mobile version of the quiz, then. I took the quiz the first time on the BuzzFeed iPhone app on my phone and the link appeared.
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Post by Fanofctrymusic on Mar 25, 2014 18:13:14 GMT -5
Miranda Lambert @mirandalambert Mar 24 Miranda is nominated for @acmawards Entertainer of the Year! Spread the word & win m/g & exclusive merch! -Team ML smarturl.it/sth972
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Post by 14887fan on Mar 25, 2014 21:47:01 GMT -5
-The Male Vocalist poll shows its results. -The Vocal Event poll shows its results, too. -The Music Video poll redirects to the Song of the Year poll, which isn't even listed. -The Music Video poll is missing entirely. Does this mean "Two Black Cadillacs" wins by default? Because I'm okay with that. From the article: *raises hand* Found one! He doesn't deserve the nomination. Say what you want, say what you will. One tour doesn't equate to Entertainer of the Year worthy. He's nominated because of his legacy and not because of his overall performance in 2013. As I've said before, they should've thrown him one of the billion made-up honorary trophies that these Country shows seem to practically create with the bat of an eye and some quick welding of a steel pipe. Anyone else in the category deserves the trophy over him, which sucks for the other 4 (and Carrie, Tim, Brad, Keith, and others that should've occupied, at least, his spot) because they'll miss out on a win that should honor the work they've put in over the past year for someone who had his campaign team do the handy work while he simply just toured. Yeah, he's the King, and yeah, I have respect for him; I'm not denying his legacy in the slightest. He just doesn't deserve Entertainer of the Year.
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Post by midnightprism on Mar 26, 2014 10:15:45 GMT -5
George has more talent in his little pinky toe than most of today's new artists.
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Post by 14887fan on Mar 26, 2014 15:03:22 GMT -5
George has more talent in his little pinky toe than most of today's new artists. Doesn't make him worthy of EOTY.
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Post by rsmatto on Mar 26, 2014 15:20:51 GMT -5
Fixed the poll issues that @14877fan noticed on Roughstock for the ACM fan votes. Though I suspect leaving the results lead to the 5,000 votes that were there for the Male Vocalist of the Year poll. View ALL polls at this page (each page links to every poll, even the poll you click). Just click here: www.roughstock.com/tag/acm-fan-poll to vote. We hope this fixes any issues that were there.
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Post by countryqueen on Mar 26, 2014 15:47:12 GMT -5
Miranda Lambert @mirandalambert Mar 24 Miranda is nominated for @acmawards Entertainer of the Year! Spread the word & win m/g & exclusive merch! -Team ML smarturl.it/sth972Oh darn, its based on a points system. I love Miranda but spammy stuff like this annoys me. Hopefully she'll win on her own merit lol
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Post by countryfan4life on Mar 26, 2014 17:51:33 GMT -5
Off-camera award winners announcedCareer Achievement - Toby Keith, Ronnie Milsap Cliffie Stone Pioneer Award - Bob Beckham Crystal Milestone Award - Merle Haggard Gene Weed Special Achievement Award - Carrie Underwood (first woman to receive this award) Jim Reeves International Award - Rascal Flatts, Steve Buchanan Mae Boren Axton Award - Paul Moore Poet's Award - Jack Clement (posthumous), Dean Dillon, Kris Kristofferson, Buck Owens (posthumous) Songwriter of the Year - Shane McAnally Yay Rascal Flatts won an ACM! :) From the article: *raises hand* Found one! He doesn't deserve the nomination. Say what you want, say what you will. One tour doesn't equate to Entertainer of the Year worthy. He's nominated because of his legacy and not because of his overall performance in 2013. As I've said before, they should've thrown him one of the billion made-up honorary trophies that these Country shows seem to practically create with the bat of an eye and some quick welding of a steel pipe. Anyone else in the category deserves the trophy over him, which sucks for the other 4 (and Carrie, Tim, Brad, Keith, and others that should've occupied, at least, his spot) because they'll miss out on a win that should honor the work they've put in over the past year for someone who had his campaign team do the handy work while he simply just toured. Yeah, he's the King, and yeah, I have respect for him; I'm not denying his legacy in the slightest. He just doesn't deserve Entertainer of the Year. I have to agree with you. I feel horrible for feeling this way, because I like George Strait and he's the King, but I think a milestone award would be more suitable. Although, if Kenny Chesney was on his final tour and was nominated, I'll be honest I would probably vote for him over the other nominees . Not sure if this is a good comparison, but looking at it from this point of view I get why people would be in favor of him winning.
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Post by Ten Pound Hammer on Mar 26, 2014 18:07:20 GMT -5
WATZ had a contest where they would take the sixth caller and enter them in a karaoke contest whose grand prize was tickets to the ACMs.
I was caller number five. Twice.
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Post by jonathanalan on Mar 26, 2014 20:30:35 GMT -5
Love that the Board of Directors is getting behind Carrie and giving her an award that she truly deserves. Just a shame the voters of the Academy don't feel the same, to even give her a proper nomination for EOY. The more I read about the ACMs & CMAs the more I get less and less interested in wanting to tune in. Such a shame.
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Post by Fanofctrymusic on Mar 28, 2014 11:40:24 GMT -5
tnne.ws/1jZ6c3Miranda Lambert, George Strait to salute Haggard at ACMsNASHVILLE, Tenn. (AP) - Country music's biggest stars are turning out for a salute to Merle Haggard. Miranda Lambert and George Strait will team up to perform a tribute medley of Haggard's hits during the Academy of Country Music Awards on April 6, and Garth Brooks will present the singer-songwriter with the academy's Crystal Milestone Award. Songs Lambert and Strait will perform include "Tonight the Bottle Let Me Down" and "I'm A Lonesome Fugitive." The academy also announced Friday morning that The Band Perry will open the show with a performance, Hunter Hayes will perform for a child hunger charity campaign, and Luke Bryan and Florida Georgia Line will team with Nitro Circus Action Stars, an action sports troupe. Bryan and Blake Shelton co-host the CBS show.
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Post by tim on Mar 28, 2014 12:21:37 GMT -5
^I'll assume this also means George isn't going to get his own performance slot. George also did a tribute performance at last years CMA's.
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Post by 43dudleyvillas on Mar 28, 2014 16:34:31 GMT -5
^I'll assume this also means George isn't going to get his own performance slot. George also did a tribute performance at last years CMA's. That isn't necessarily the case, since RCA Nashville had already confirmed via press release that Miranda will perform "Automatic" at the ACMs. So she will perform twice. I hope, as I did in vain prior to the CMAs, that George will perform twice as well. I just don't like the message that an older performer like him is only relevant for historical tributes and not for his current music. About George Strait... He doesn't deserve the nomination. Say what you want, say what you will. One tour doesn't equate to Entertainer of the Year worthy. He's nominated because of his legacy and not because of his overall performance in 2013. As I've said before, they should've thrown him one of the billion made-up honorary trophies that these Country shows seem to practically create with the bat of an eye and some quick welding of a steel pipe. Anyone else in the category deserves the trophy over him, which sucks for the other 4 (and Carrie, Tim, Brad, Keith, and others that should've occupied, at least, his spot) because they'll miss out on a win that should honor the work they've put in over the past year for someone who had his campaign team do the handy work while he simply just toured. Yeah, he's the King, and yeah, I have respect for him; I'm not denying his legacy in the slightest. He just doesn't deserve Entertainer of the Year. I agree that because of the way the ACM voters vote these days, George Strait is nominated this year because of his legacy and not his overall performance in 2013. But I consider George Strait's nomination for Entertainer to be the right outcome for the wrong reasons. One big problem with the ACMs and CMAs, in my view, one that the Grammy country awards at least occasionally address, is the degree to which they allow radio to dictate their contenders. Country radio is in one of its narrowest phases ever and is as unrepresentative of the true breadth of country music as it has ever been, and I think that is reflected by this year's ACM nominations (especially in the Album of the Year category). George Strait had one radio hit in 2013 (and it was a legitimate hit before the ridiculous #1 push), but the fact that he didn't impact beyond that has more to do with country radio's narrowness than it does with his lack of relevance to country music and the country market today. With 120K copies sold, George's album opened with higher first week sales than a number of nominated artists, and is pushing 400K copies sold from just the one hit. I would argue that George Strait's ongoing market relevance with his traditional sound in an ageist industry gives him especially strong symbolic value today, especially when combined with his big tour draw. It's not just his legacy, but the way he represented the enduring relevance of traditional country in 2013's mainstream world that I think warrants this year's Entertainer nomination. Of course, left to industry voters, his accomplishments would have gone unrecognized if not for his retirement tour -- see the absence of his Love Is Everything from the Album of the Year category in favor of abject male mediocrity. Like I said, right outcome, wrong reasons. Love that the Board of Directors is getting behind Carrie and giving her an award that she truly deserves. Just a shame the voters of the Academy don't feel the same, to even give her a proper nomination for EOY. This is, of course, the same Board of Directors that allowed the Justin Moore New Artist nomination through despite his clear cut ineligibility (ACM voters had a hand in that, as well). The same Board that arbitrarily increased the number of Entertainer of the Year nominees in 2010 to eight and then just as arbitrarily reduced it to six in 2011, bizarrely citing monologue length when that year's monologue would subsequently not even acknowledge the Entertainer nominees. But I guess even a stopped watch has the right time twice a day. (Just to be clear, I think Carrie Underwood has 2013's strongest case for Entertainer of the Year by a healthy margin and that it's beyond silly that she isn't nominated. I just feel that the arbitrariness of these industry groups devalues the significance of all of the awards that they present, whether industry-voted, fan-voted, or board-voted. I am very interested to see whether George Strait walks away with the ACM Entertainer trophy this year, because for that to happen, I'm pretty sure the ACM Board will need to count industry votes over fan votes, as the vagueness of its rule on the matter allows it to do.) Looking at the list of performers and extrapolating the ACM Awards set list so far, I'm pretty uninspired outside of the Merle Haggard tribute and, depending on what he performs, Eric Church. I'm also a tad bit concerned from the gender perspective. Miranda Lambert has been confirmed for two performances without a single other solo female being confirmed for one. I understand that Carrie Underwood is in between albums and therefore a question mark to perform, but what about multi-nominee Kacey Musgraves? Sheryl Crow's single isn't exactly heating up the charts but she is a nominee and a marquis name in her own right (though perhaps not to the right demographic). I hope we'll see all three of those names when the next round of ACM Awards performers is announced. Little Big Town is also yet to be announced -- I would like to see them among the performers somehow, even if "Sober" is done (and they already performed it at the CMA Awards, anyway). With Brad Paisley's announcement of a new single and what seems like a deliberately-timed guest stint on CBS's The Crazy Ones next Thursday, I wonder if he will turn up among the performers, as well.
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Post by 14887fan on Apr 1, 2014 1:09:30 GMT -5
Ugh. So that's 2 Blake Shelton performances in the same night? Gr8. Watch his announcement be that he's coming out of retirement and the entire purpose of his nomination would be completely void. Oh, and just to put it into perspective for everyone: there will only be 1 solo female performing at the ACMs this year. Count them: 1. And again, 1. Not even Taylor Swift or Carrie Underwood will be on stage. Solely Miranda Lambert.
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Post by bboat11 on Apr 1, 2014 2:52:58 GMT -5
I think there is still hope that we can see one or two more females added to the roster as more performers are announced. As suggested earlier, a strong case could be made for Sheryl Crow. And I am personally hoping for Sara Evans still! After all, she is the only female aside from Miranda with a top 20 single right now! And Martina has new music coming out right after the show. That one would be a total surprise of course, but stranger things have happened. And there are several newcomers like Kacey Musgraves, Cassadee Pope, and Danielle Bradbury that have had moderate success lately. Of course, even if they added 5 more females, the ratio would still be incredibly off...
I think if anyone is added, it should be Sara. She absolutely knocked "A Little Bit Stronger" out of the park back at the 2011 show. I still get chills every time I watch that video! She has been working hard to make her comeback a success, AND has a major label backing her up. She deserves this chance to shine.
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Post by jdbowman on Apr 1, 2014 2:54:02 GMT -5
Wonder what George is announcing....new lead single?
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Post by bboat11 on Apr 1, 2014 3:06:39 GMT -5
Wonder what George is announcing....new lead single? I think it's still a little too early for that yet, unless the plug for "I Got A Car" is about to be pulled and we don't know it yet. But it is very possible he will be announcing some sort of album release for later in the year! Perhaps a live CD/DVD set from this final tour??? Or maybe a new hits collection or boxed set? Or maybe something different from him that he doesn't plan to release singles from, such as a bluegrass album or big band album or something? Or maybe he will be adding another big act to the last night of his tour, like Garth Brooks! We'll just have to wait and see I guess!
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Post by Deleted on Apr 1, 2014 3:29:37 GMT -5
The article said George's announcement will have to do with the upcoming 50th anniversary of the ACM, so I'm not sure that it will really actually be related to George and his music at all.
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