Tune in to the ACM Awards This Sunday Night

Any country music fans out there? If so, don't forget that the 45th Annual Academy of Country Music Awards will be live on CBS this Sunday, April 18th, at 8 PM EST! The show is set to take place in Las Vegas and will be hosted by the one and only Reba McEntire.

For the first time ever, ACM has implemented a "text-to-vote" for the evening's biggest award, Entertainer of the Year! Voting will begin at the start of the show when codes will be given for each artist nominated. The nominees are Kenny Chesney, Toby Keith, Brad Paisley, George Strait, Taylor Swift, Carrie Underwood, Keith Urban and Zac Brown Band.

Album Review: Brad Paisley - American Saturday Night

After 10 years and 10 straight No. 1 singles, Brad Paisley has got it down: He knows what his fans want and he gives it to them. His well-crafted new album is no different. Paisley hits all the right notes, literally and figuratively, weighing in on skinny dippin', beer, fishing, technology, children and women, among other all-American topics. "Then," a multiweek No. 1 on Billboard's Hot Country Songs chart, speaks to long-lasting love and adoration and may be this decade's "Amazed." The soulful "Oh Yeah, You're Gone," which features blues rocker (and co-writer) Robben Ford, is the album's pearl and shows a side of Paisley he's rarely revealed. There's plenty of his trademark humor here as well. On "The Pants" he gleefully hands out sage advice to a stubborn man: "It's not who wears the pants, it's who wears the skirt." ~Ken Tucker

[Via: Billboard.com]

ACM Awards Scorecard

Here's the rundown of winners and highlights--in case you missed the big show Sunday night.

ENTERTAINER OF THE YEAR:
Carrie Underwood


TOP MALE VOCALIST:
Brad Paisley

TOP FEMALE VOCALIST:
Carrie Underwood

TOP VOCAL GROUP:
Rascal Flatts

TOP VOCAL DUO:
Sugarland


TOP NEW ARTIST:
Julianne Hough

TOP NEW MALE ARTIST
Jake Owen


TOP NEW FEMALE ARTIST
Julianne Hough


TOP NEW VOCAL GROUP
Zac Brown Band


SINGLE OF THE YEAR
Trace Adkins - "You're Gonna Miss This"

ALBUM OF THE YEAR
Taylor Swift - Fearless



SONG OF THE YEAR
Jamey Johnson - "In Color"



VIDEO OF THE YEAR
Brad Paisley - "Waitin' On a Woman"

VOCAL EVENT OF THE YEAR
Brad Paisley plus Keith Urban - "Start A Band"


Congratulations to all the winners!