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Miranda Lambert\u00a0 took home three trophies Sunday night (April 7) — the most of any fellow nominees — including her fourth consecutive win for Female Vocalist of the Year. The live broadcast was a night of firsts for a few of Miranda’s buddies,<\/span> though, including Luke Bryan who stakes claim to the ACM Awards’ biggest honor, Entertainer of the Year, in what was his first time ever being nominated in that coveted, fan-voted category.<\/p>\n “Thank you guys so much, [my] fans for doing this,” the “Crash My Party” singer said upon accepting the trophy, choking back tears. “Thank you so much for making my life what it is. What I always wanted to be was just a country singer who got to ride on a tour bus and play music every night. Everyone I opened up for: Jason Aldean, Tim McGraw, Kenny Chesney — I just started headlining — every guy I’ve watched from the side of the stage and tried to become a better entertainer. This is the defining moment of my life, and I’ll never take it for granted.”<\/p>\n Jason Aldean has his first win in the ACM Male Vocalist category<\/span>, while Little Big Town has their first ACM Vocal Group and Video of the Year victories. Eric Church’s Chief <\/em>follows its CMA win with an ACM win for Album of the Year. Miranda and hubby Blake Shelton also have duplicate CMA-ACM wins, as their touching tribute to Blake’s late brother, “Over You,” was the winner for Song of the Year once again. The tune also won Single of the Year for Miranda and her producers.<\/p>\n Hopefully anyone who criticizes current country music as being too pop<\/span> saw the first hour of the show. Blake kicked it all off with a country bang with his new single, “Boys ‘Round Here.” He was joined by his ACM co-host, Luke Bryan on the down-home country song, along with Sheryl Crow, Pistol Annies, Gwen Sebastian and Brad Paisley. The latest hits from Kenny Chesney Brad Paisley, George Strait, Eric Church, Florida Georgia Line and Lady Antebellum kept the country momentum flowing until the first award of the night — which came some 48 minutes into the show — Vocal Duo of the Year, which went to Thompson Square for the second consecutive year.<\/p>\n As the actual award presentations only took up a small fraction of the show, most of the three-hour broadcast was dedicated to great live music. The Band Perry, Jana Kramer, Jason Aldean, Luke Bryan, Little Big Town, Brantley Gilbert, Miranda Lambert and Hunter Hayes all performed their latest radio singles on the show. Carrie Underwood gets props for the biggest prop of the night, driving a car onstage for her dark song, “Two Black Cadillacs.” And in addition to the opening number, there were some fantastic musical pairings on the broadcast, including Brad Paisley and John Mayer on Brad’s new song, “Beat This Summer,” and Tim McGraw, Taylor Swift and Keith Urban on Tim’s latest single, “Highway Don’t Care.” Marking their first time ever performing live together, Garth Brooks and George Strait did a medley of their hits in tribute to late media icon, Dick Clark. Living legend Stevie Wonder closed the show, first singing with Hunter Hayes and then with co-hosts Blake and Luke, as the entire audience sang and danced along.<\/p>\n See a full list of 2013 ACM Winners and nominees below, with winners in *bold<\/strong>.<\/p>\n Entertainer of the Year<\/strong> Male Vocalist of the Year<\/strong> Female Vocalist of the Year<\/strong> Vocal Duo of the Year<\/strong> Vocal Group of the Year<\/strong> New Artist of the Year<\/strong> Album of the Year<\/strong> [Award goes to Artist(s)\/Producer(s)\/Record Company] Single Record of the Year<\/strong> [Award to Artist(s)\/Producer(s)\/Record Company] Song of the Year<\/strong> [Award to Composer(s)\/Publisher(s)\/Artist(s)] Songwriter of the Year<\/strong> Video of the Year<\/strong> [Award to Producer(s)\/Director(s)\/Artist(s)] *(Off Camera Award) [TIE] Vocal Event of the Year <\/strong>[Award to Artist(s)\/Producer(s)\/Record Company] *(Off Camera Award) Miranda Lambert\u00a0 took home three trophies Sunday night (April 7) — the most of any fellow nominees — including her fourth consecutive win for Female Vocalist of the Year. The live broadcast was a night of firsts for a few of Miranda’s buddies, though, including Luke Bryan who stakes claim to the ACM Awards’ biggest honor, Entertainer of the Year, in what was his first time ever being nominated in that coveted, fan-voted category. “Thank you guys so much, [my] fans for doing this,” the “Crash My Party” singer said<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":19072,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/whisnews21.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/19071"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/whisnews21.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/whisnews21.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/whisnews21.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/whisnews21.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=19071"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/whisnews21.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/19071\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/whisnews21.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/19072"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/whisnews21.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=19071"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/whisnews21.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=19071"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/whisnews21.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=19071"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}
\n\u00b7 Jason Aldean
\n\u00b7 *Luke Bryan – WINNER<\/strong>
\n\u00b7 Miranda Lambert
\n\u00b7 Blake Shelton
\n\u00b7 Taylor Swift<\/p>\n
\n\u00b7 *Jason Aldean – WINNER<\/strong>
\n\u00b7 Luke Bryan
\n\u00b7 Eric Church
\n\u00b7 Toby Keith
\n\u00b7 Blake Shelton<\/p>\n
\n\u00b7 *Miranda Lambert – WINNER<\/strong>
\n\u00b7 Martina McBride
\n\u00b7 Kacey Musgraves
\n\u00b7 Taylor Swift
\n\u00b7 Carrie Underwood<\/p>\n
\n\u00b7 Big & Rich
\n\u00b7 Florida Georgia Line
\n\u00b7 Love and Theft
\n\u00b7 Sugarland
\n\u00b7 *Thompson Square – WINNERS<\/strong><\/p>\n
\n\u00b7 The Band Perry
\n\u00b7 Eli Young Band
\n\u00b7 Lady Antebellum
\n\u00b7 *Little Big Town – WINNERS<\/strong>
\n\u00b7 Zac Brown Band<\/p>\n
\n\u00b7 *Florida Georgia Line – WINNERS<\/strong>
\n\u00b7 Brantley Gilbert
\n\u00b7 Jana Kramer<\/p>\n
\n\u00b7 Blown Away<\/em> \u2013 Carrie Underwood (19\/Arista Nashville)
\nProduced by: Mark Bright
\n\u00b7 *Chief <\/em>\u2013 Eric Church (EMI-Nashville) – WINNER
\nProduced by: Jay Joyce<\/strong>
\n\u00b7 Red<\/em> \u2013 Taylor Swift (Big Machine Records)
\nProduced by: Jeff Bhasker, Nathan Chapman, Dann Huff, Jacknife Lee, Max Martin, Shellback, Taylor Swift, Butch Walker, Dan Wilson
\n\u00b7 tailgates & tanlines<\/em> \u2013 Luke Bryan (Capitol Nashville)
\nProduced by: Mark Bright, Jeff Stevens
\n\u00b7 Tornado<\/em> \u2013 Little Big Town (Capitol Nashville)
\nProduced by: Jay Joyce<\/p>\n
\n\u00b7 “Even If It Breaks Your Heart” \u2013 Eli Young Band (Republic Nashville)
\nProduced by: Mike Wrucke
\n\u00b7 *”Over You” \u2013 Miranda Lambert (RCA) – WINNER<\/strong>
\nProduced by: Chuck Ainlay, Frank Liddell, Glenn Worf
\n\u00b7 “Pontoon” \u2013 Little Big Town (Capitol Nashville)
\nProduced by: Jay Joyce
\n\u00b7 “Springsteen” \u2013 Eric Church (EMI-Nashville)
\nProduced by: Jay Joyce
\n\u00b7 “Wanted” \u2013 Hunter Hayes (Atlantic\/WMN)
\nProduced by: Hunter Hayes, Dann Huff<\/p>\n
\n\u00b7 “A Woman Like You” \u2013 Lee Brice
\nComposers: Phil Barton, Johnny Bulford, Jon Stone
\nPublishers: 3JB Music (BMI), Adios Pantalones (SESAC), Hears That Skyline Music (SESAC), Sixteen Stars Music (BMI), Warner-Tamerlane Publishing Corp. (BMI)
\n\u00b7 “Even If It Breaks Your Heart” \u2013 Eli Young Band
\nComposers: Will Hoge, Eric Paslay
\nPublishers: Cal IV Songs (ASCAP), Will Hoge Music (BMI)
\n\u00b7 *”Over You” \u2013 Miranda Lambert
\nComposers: Miranda Lambert, Blake Shelton – WINNERS<\/strong>
\nPublishers: Pink Dog Publishing (BMI), Sony ATV\/Tree Publishing (BMI)
\n\u00b7 “Springsteen” \u2013 Eric Church
\nComposers: Eric Church, Jeff Hyde, Ryan Tyndell
\nPublishers: Bug Music (BMI), Ole Purple Cape Music (BMI), Sinnerlina (BMI), Sony ATV\/Tree Publishing (BMI)
\n\u00b7 “Wanted” \u2013 Hunter Hayes
\nComposers: Hunter Hayes, Troy Verges
\nPublishers: Happy Little Man Publishing (BMI), Songs From The Engine Room (BMI), Songs Of Universal Inc. (BMI)<\/p>\n
\n\u00b7 Rodney Clawson
\n\u00b7 *Dallas Davidson – WINNER<\/strong>
\n\u00b7 Josh Kear
\n\u00b7 Luke Laird
\n\u00b7 Shane McAnally<\/p>\n
\n\u00b7” Creepin'” \u2013 Eric Church
\nProducer: Iris Baker Director: Peter Zavadil \u00b7 Merry Go ‘Round \u2013 Kacey Musgraves
\nProducers: Perry Bean, Kacey Musgraves Director: Perry Bean
\n*\u00b7 “Tornado” \u2013 Little Big Town – WINNER<\/strong>
\nProducer: Iris Baker Director: Shane Drake
\n\u00b7 “Wanted” \u2013 Hunter Hayes Producers: Stephanie Reeves, Eric Williams Directors: Traci Goudie, Patrick Hubik
\n\u00b7 “We Are Never Ever Getting Back Together” \u2013 Taylor Swift Producer: John Nguyen Director: Declan Whitebloom
\n\u00b7 “The Wind” \u2013 Zac Brown Band Producer: Ben Kalina Director: Mike Judge<\/p>\n
\n\u00b7 “Don’t Rush” \u2013 Kelly Clarkson Featuring Vince Gill (19\/RCA\/Columbia Nashville) Produced by: Dann Huff
\n\u00b7 “Easy” \u2013 Rascal Flatts Featuring Natasha Bedingfield (Big Machine Records) Produced by: Dann Huff, Brian Kennedy, Rascal Flatts
\n\u00b7”Feel Like a Rock Star” \u2013 Kenny Chesney (Duet With Tim McGraw) (Blue Chair\/BNA) Produced by: Buddy Cannon, Kenny Chesney
\n\u00b7 “Let It Rain” \u2013 David Nail Featuring Sarah Buxton (MCA Nashville) Produced by: Chuck Ainlay, Frank Liddell
\n*\u00b7 “The Only Way I Know” \u2013 Jason Aldean With Luke Bryan & Eric Church (Broken Bow) Produced by: Michael Knox – WINNER<\/strong><\/p>\n\u00a0<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"