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Taylor Swift is nominated for six CMAs including entertainer of the year for the third time and album and female vocalist of the year.
Swift will be going for her third entertainer of the year award and was nominated for album and female vocalist of the year as well for the Nov. 6 awards in Nashville. Newcomer Musgraves also is up for awards in the album and female vocalist categories.
The nominations were announced Tuesday morning in New York on “Good Morning America” and in a later news conference by Sheryl Crow and FGL.
Reigning entertainer of the year Blake Shelton and his wife, Miranda Lambert, are next with five nominations each. And Keith Urban and Florida Georgia Line have four apiece.
Lambert and Shelton will be going for their fourth consecutive wins in the male vocalist and female vocalist categories and have a chance to again share a trophy, as they did last year when their song “Over You” won song of the year. In 2013, both share nominations in the musical event and video categories with Lambert’s trio Pistol Annies for their collaboration on Shelton’s song “Boys `Round Here.”
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Blake Shelton (L) and Miranda Lambert both have five nominations each.
The CMAs have turned into something of a party recently for the couple, who have been among the show’s top winners the past three years.
“It’s so much fun for us each to be having individual success at the same time and we can celebrate it all together,” Lambert said in an email to The Associated Press. “Last year was so special being recognized for our song `Over You.’ Also, the CMAs happen around my birthday. It’s another reason to have a `Randa-rita!”
Shelton and Swift are up for top honor entertainer of the year with Jason Aldean, Luke Bryan and surprise nominee George Strait, a two-time winner in the category who’s being feted by CMA voters as he retires from touring.
Swift’s load of nominations isn’t that surprising. While sometimes a polarizing figure because of her pop music leanings, she’s gotten the full attention of CMA voters in recent years. She’s now up to 21 career CMA nominations and has two entertainer of the year awards among her seven wins, tying her with Barbara Mandrell as the lead female winner of the association’s top honor.
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Keith Urban pulled in four CMA nominations.
Musgraves’ rapid ascendance, though, comes as something of a shock. This is the first year the talented, left-of-center newcomer has been nominated, and the number of trophies she and Swift are up for signals something of an admission that the once deeply conservative format is opening up to new sounds and ideas in the 21st Century.
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