Kenny Chesney's name was called seven times this morning, as Carrie Underwood and Brad Paisley read the list of nominations for the 43rd annual Academy of Country Music Awards. Among Chesney's nods is the coveted Entertainer of the Year Award, which he has won the past three years in a row. This year, you will decide whether Chesney takes home that honor for a fourth straight year as, for the first time in ACM history, the night's top award will be voted on by fans. Other contenders for Entertainer of the Year are Brad Paisley, Rascal Flatts, George Strait and Keith Urban.

Competing for the ACM's Female Vocalist of the Year award are Carrie Underwood, LeAnn Rimes, Miranda Lambert, Martina McBride and Taylor Swift. Male Vocalist of the Year nods go to Chesney, Paisley, Urban, Strait and Rodney Atkins. Rascal Flatts will try for their sixth win as Top Vocal Group. Other nominees in that category include the Eagles, Diamond Rio, Emerson Drive and Little Big Town.

See the full list of ACM nominations after the jump.

NBC has tapped an eclectic group of musicians to star in a new reality-competition show, 'Clash of the Choirs.' Patti LaBelle, Nick Lachey, Blake Shelton, Kelly Rowland and Michael Bolton will try to create "America's greatest choir" on the live show, each of them picking 20 singers from their respective hometowns to join their team. LaBelle will return to her hometown of Philadelphia for auditions; Lachey will be going home to Cincinatti; Shelton will return to Oklahoma City; Rowland will audition in her native Houston; and Bolton will be going back to his hometown of New Haven, CT.

Cameras will follow the artists from the hometown auditions through the choir competition in New York. Viewers will be able to call in to vote for their favorite choir, and the winners will get to choose a prize that will benefit their city -- anything from renovating a school gym to building a community playground. 'Clash of the Choirs' is set to air live over four nights, December 17-20.

Kellie Pickler's career started when she finished sixth on Fox's 'American Idol,' and she has since catapulted to stardom, garnering multiple awards and a slew of hits. During Wednesday night's 41st Annual CMA Awards, it all caught up with Pickler, who gave a tearful performance of 'I Wonder,' a song she wrote about her estranged mother Cynthia Malone, who abandoned her when she was just two years old. Nashville's audience rose to applaud not only Pickler's performance, but her struggle -- and ultimate triumph -- to rise to the top. Watch the touching performance after the jump.

Jessica Simpson's been spotted in Nashville quite a bit lately. The pop starlet is in Music City to explore the notion of recording a country album. According to Nashville ABC affiliate WKRN, Simpson is in talks with some of country music's heaviest hitters to collaborate on her new project, including John Rich (Big & Rich), Vince Gill and Simpson's co-star in 'The Dukes of Hazzard' movie, Willie Nelson. The singer's also reportedly met with executives at CMT (Country Music Television) and Nashville's Sony/BMG record label.

Other news outlets are reporting that Simpson actually moved to Nashville, though she was also recently seen apartment-hunting in New York. Simpson has said that she is making the move to the Big Apple to be closer to her record label. She also has an upcoming gig in New York, co-hosting 'The View' on November 15 and 16.

Country star Joe Nichols is getting treatment for a longtime substance abuse problem. "As Joe has alluded to in interviews over the past year, he has struggled with the issue of substance abuse," a posting on his Web site by Nichols' management team reads. "In order to become a healthier person and deal with long standing issues, he has entered into a rehabilitation program for consultation and treatment."

This announcement comes just one month after Nichols married his girlfriend of 12 years. The couple honeymooned in Florida before the singer hit the road to promote his new album, 'Real Things.' He canceled a concert Saturday in Waco, Texas, so that he could begin his treatment.

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It's pretty much guaranteed that if you cheat on a country singer, you're going to end up the subject of a song. Someone should have told that to Kellie Pickler's now ex-boyfriend, Nashville Predators star Jordin Tootoo. Pickler and Tootoo ignited a romance earlier this year, but that seems to be over now, allegedly thanks to Tootoo's infidelity.

"Jordin knows what he did," Pickler said Monday, according to the Tennessean. She told her audience at a concert in Michigan a lot more, explaining to the crowd that Tootoo cheated on her and that her new "theme song" is Carrie Underwood's 'Before He Cheats.' She even joked on stage that she hoped her ex's teeth were knocked out during that night's hockey game. But the jokes soon subsided to tears as she sang her song, 'Didn't You Know How Much I Loved You.'

Keith Urban escaped injury Monday during a minor motorcycle accident near his home in Sydney, Australia. The country star was en route to an Alcoholics Anonymous meeting when a photographer, also riding a motorcycle, allegedly started to chase him. When a car approached the two bikes, Urban was forced to drop his motorcycle, skidding about 10 yards along a concrete gutter.

"Today's incident was the result of one person's desire to do his job and my desire to maintain my privacy," Urban said in a statement. "Some have already attempted to inflate the facts, but the reality is this: While out riding to an AA meeting, a time when my privacy is especially important to me, I felt myself being pursued. I sped up, and in an effort to elude an oncoming car which was making an illegal U-turn, saw no choice but to drop my bike. In actual fact, my pursuer came to my assistance, without taking photos, and helped me from the road."

The photographer denies that he was following Urban. Police are now investigating the accident.

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