ATC’s Spotlight Series is taking a look back at Top Male Vocalist of the Year. In the past decade, the ACM’s have awarded some of country music’s biggest stars. This award, like the Top Female Vocalist award, recognizes both commercial and artistic merit of some of the best male artists. As usual, we’ll be looking…
Month: April 2010
Single Review: Easton Corbin, “Roll With It”
New country music sensation Easton Corbin just scored his first number one single with his debut song, “A Little More Country Than That.” Now, he’s releasing the second single off his self-titled debut album, “Roll With It,” to country radio. Can this traditionalist gain even more chart success with this single? In my opinion, Easton…
ACM Spotlight Series: Top Female Vocalist
Due to the lack of diversity among the winners of the Top Vocal Duo and Top Vocal Group of the Year categories, we will skip those two categories and jump right into the top vocalist awards. Today’s Spotlight Series will focus on the Top Female Vocalist category. Many of the decade’s top female artists have…
ACM Spotlight Series: Album of the Year
Our ACM Spotlight Series is featuring the ACM’s Album of the Year category. Over the years, the Academy has become known to bestow this award on albums that have done well commercially rather than albums that have excelled artistically. As with our other Spotlights, we’ll be looking back at the last ten years of winners…
Billboard Chart Flash: Week of March 29 – April 4
This week, two groups top the Country Albums and Hot Country Songs charts. Lady Antebellum held off another big album release while one group climbed to the top of the singles chart. Find out which other group made the climb to the top in this week’s Chart Flash. On the Country Albums chart, Lady Antebellum…
ACM Spotlight Series: Single Record of the Year
Our ACM Spotlight Series is featuring the Single Record of the Year category. As with the Song of the Year spotlight, we will only be looking back at the last ten years of winners and nominees, starting with this year’s nominees.What makes the Single Record of the Year category different than the Song of the…
Carrie Underwood, “Undo It”
This week Carrie Underwood nabbed her twelvth number one single of her career with her hit “Temporary Home.” As “Temporary Home” was hitting number one, Carrie released the follow-up song from her album Play On to country radio. Can her latest single, “Undo It,” reach the summit like the rest of Carrie’s singles? On “Temporary…
Billboard Chart Flash: Week of March 22 – 28
On this week’s Billboard charts, Carrie Underwood’s “Temporary Home” reaches the summit on this week’s Hot Country Songs chart while Lady Antebellum makes it nine straight weeks atop the Country Albums Chart. Read this week’s Chart Flash to see who else is making a move on this week’s charts. Lady Antebellum sold another 78,000 copies…
ACM Spotlight Series: Song of the Year
For the remainder of our ACM Spotlight Series, I will only be taking a look back at the last 10 years of winners and nominees because I feel I know the past decade of music better than music from 40 years ago. So let’s look at the last ten years of winners and nominees of…
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