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Brad Paisley and Keith Urban were accidentally left off the CMA Award Nomination ballot for Musical Event of the Year for their hit, Start A Band.
The omission is said to have occurred when nomination information was being transferred from the online ballot to the list of final nominees.
Tammy Genovese, CMA Chief Executive Officer, said:
“We take the integrity of the CMA Awards balloting very seriously, and when an oversight like this occurs we commit ourselves to a thorough review, thoughtful and immediate correction, and complete disclosure and accountability to the artists and our industry. I can assure CMA’s valued constituents that we have examined every detail of the ballot for other discrepancies and all other categories were correct as announced.”
The addition gives Brad a total of seven nominations, the most of any artist nominated for the 2009 CMA Awards (Entertainer of the Year; Male Vocalist; Album of the Year for “American Saturday Night,” Single and Song for “Then,” and Music Video for “Start A Band”). Keith’s total nominations goes from four to five.
The 43rd Annual CMA Awards will be broadcast live from the Sommet Center in Nashville, on Wednesday, November 11 at 8:00 pm on ABC.
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