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9 MILLION Country Fans Lit Up the Holidays with ‘CMA Country Christmas’

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Nothing like “CMA Country Christmas” to put 9 MILLION awesome Country Music fans in the holiday spirit!

Thanks to all of the fans who tuned in to the 2011 CMA Country Christmas on ABC Thursday night! More than 9 MILLION fans watched Jennifer Nettles host this unforgettable night and were treated to amazing performances by Lauren Alaina, Vince Gill, Amy Grant, Faith Hill, Little Big Town, Martina McBride, Scotty McCreery, Brad Paisley, Kellie Pickler, Rascal Flatts, Darius Rucker, Brian Setzer, Sugarland, Keith Urban, and even Miss Piggy in a memorable duet with Vince Gill!

And thanks for everybody who chimed in with comments on Facebook and Twitter!  We love keeping up with everyone online!  Here are some of our favorite tweets during the show:

@brookehof How could anyone not love Jennifer Nettles? #CMAChristmas #talentfordays #bestpartofmynight

@LBTmusic @Lauren_Alaina, you did Amy Grant proud, girl! Kimberly #CMAChristmas

@martinamcbride This performance by Faith Hill is really powerful. So beautiful. #CMAChristmas

@EmmaAlaina Holy. 7 minutes in. RT @sara_weaver: Dang. #CMAChristmas is already #1 trending worldwide. That was fast.

@callmeparks Darius Rucker has the perfect voice to sing Walking in a Winter Wonderland #CMAChristmas

@CountryMashup “@kherbert87: Miss Piggy wants to du-et with Vincent Gill #CMAChristmas” very funny line

@familymgrkendra Watching @Sugarland perform “Silent Night” on #CMAChristmas. BEAUTIFUL!!!

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CMA Awards Artist Spotlight: MARTINA MCBRIDE

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Martina McBride wins Female Vocalist of the Year at the CMA Awards in 2002.

It’s no surprise that Martina McBride is nominated again this year for CMA’s Female Vocalist of the Year. Having earned the title a total of four times, she ties Reba McEntire for the most Award wins in the category. With a new album out and a 2012 tour lined up with the “King of Country” himself, George Strait, Martina McBride has a lot to look forward to. The “45th Annual CMA Awards” which air Wednesday, Nov. 9 (8|7c on ABC) earn McBride her 21st CMA Award nomination.

More about Martina McBride

It’s not just award wins and albums sales that distinguish a true “leading lady” of Country Music. It’s also character and longevity.  Good thing for Martina McBride, she has all of these qualities and then some.  Since the release of her first album in 1992, McBride has continuously wowed audiences with her impressive vocal range, positive attitude, charitable generosity and long list of awards and recognitions.

As a well-respected member of the music community, Martina McBride has participated in a number of charity and music events, including the “Stand Up 2 Cancer” telethon in 2010 and the Academy of Country Music’s Girls’ Night Out Benefit Concert in 2011, which featured fellow CMA Award nominees Miranda Lambert, Carrie Underwood and Jennifer Nettles (of Sugarland.) She is the current spokeswoman for the “National Domestic Violence Hotline” and has hosted the Middle Tennessee’s YWCA Celebrity Auction every year since 1995.  In Feb. 2011, McBride took the stage with Christina Aguilera, Jennifer Hudson, Florence Welch and Yolanda Adams at the 53rd GRAMMY Awards to pay tribute to vocal legend, Aretha Franklin.

Over the course of her nearly twenty-year career, McBride has released ten studio albums, as well as a Greatest Hits, Christmas and Live compilation. She has sold over 18 Million albums worldwide and released fifty singles.  On Oct. 11 2011, McBride released her long-awaited eleventh studio album, appropriately titled, Eleven.

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CMA Awards Artist Spotlight: SUGARLAND

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Sugarland accepts Vocal Duo of the Year at the 2008 CMA Awards.

For a group that consists of only two people, Sugarland continuously proves that they don’t need a 10-piece band to captivate 20,000-plus crowds.  Since 2004 Jennifer Nettles and Kristian Bush have captured the hearts of Country Music fans with their musical chemistry, energetic stage presence and catchy hits. They have released four Platinum-certified albums and earned five No. 1 Country singles.   As reigning Vocal Duo of the Year winners, the pair is nominated again in 2011 for the CMA Award which they have claimed every year since 2007.

More about Sugarland

Sugarland’s first single, “Baby Girl,” is a telling story of the group’s musical beginnings in Georgia, where they played local bars around Atlanta and near-by towns, making a name for themselves in the early ‘00s singer/songwriter scene.  As the lead-off single to their debut album, Twice the Speed of Life, “Baby Girl” peaked at No. 2 on the Billboard Hot Country Songs chart and set a record for the highest-peaking debut single from a group in over 13 years.

Jennifer and Kristian perform "Settlin'" at the 2006 CMA Awards in Nashville.

Sugarland earned their first No. 1 hit with “Want To,” the lead single from their sophomore studio album, Enjoy the Ride.  The album produced three more singles, including “Stay,” for which Nettles won CMA’s Song of the Year in 2008 and a GRAMMY Award for Best Country Song in 2009. Their third album, Love on the Inside, not only featured Nettles and Bush as vocalists and musicians, but also as songwriters. The duo co-wrote all of the album’s 12 tracks, including their No. 1 hits, “All I Want to Do,” “Already Gone” and “It Happens.”

With 2011 drawing to a close, it’s clear that Sugarland has no intention of slowing down.  On Oct. 19, 2010 they released their fourth studio album, aptly titled The Incredible Machine, which debuted at No. 1 on Billboard’s Top 200 and Top Country Albums charts. Since then, the duo has released three singles, including the lead-off hit, “Stuck Like Glue.”  Sugarland began their “Incredible Machine Tour” in 2010 and will continue touring across the US until October 2011. The tour ranked No. 38 on Pollstar’s “Top 50 North American Tours (2010 Year End),” grossing $19 million.

The tour has featured openers such as Jake Owen, Julianne Hough, Randy Montana, Sara Bareilles, as well as fellow CMA Award nominees, Luke Bryan and Little Big Town.

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