Country Star Taylor Swift got 5 AMA’s among them the AMA’s substantial prize, Artist of the Year for the duration of Sunday’s (11/22) ceremony located at Los Angeles’ Nokia Theatre, while the late Michael Jackson haul of four posthumous awards obtained his count on the way to a record-breaking, career spanning Twenty-three American Music Awards.
Donning a single white, rhinestone studded glove, Jermaine Jackson received his brother’s awards. Swift handed Jackson his only loss of this particular night, in the Artist of the Year category.
“First of all, I would like to thank Allah for blessing my entire family,” Jermaine Jackson said. “Dick Clark, for all the support. For those of you who don’t know, Dick Clark gave us one of the very first opportunities from the beginning when we were the Jackson 5. We miss you Michael. You’ll always be in our hearts.”
Taylor Swift accepted her awards by means of satellite from London, England’s Wembley Arena, to where Taylor Swift was already set to Perform in concert.
“Music has never been ultimately about competition,” she stated. “To even be mentioned in a category with Michael Jackson, who we will miss and love forever, is an unimaginable honor.”
Taylor Swift ended up being additionally named favorite Female Pop/Rock and Country Artist and Favorite Adult-Contemporary Artist. Her album, “Fearless,” won Favorite Country Album. Michael Jackson was chosen favorite male artist in the pop/rock and soul/R&B categories.
Following the recent completion from the original leg associated with this “Fearless” tour, Country Star Taylor Swift has confirmed all of the dates and also venues for performing this latest spring segment of the run behind Swift’s award winning sophomore record.
Just after an Australian trip in February, the pop country songstress will go back to the US for the 38 2010 Fearless tour, which gets going March 4th in Tampa and keeps going through June 5 performance in Foxborough, Ma. Alot of 2 night stands currently on the books, this includes 3/18 and 3/19 in Wachovia Center, 3/26 and 3/27 at Palace Of Auburn Hills, April 6-7 at Pepsi Center, 3/15 and 3/16 in Los angeles, May 12-13 in Prudential Center, 5/14 and 5/15 in Uniondale, May 21-22 in Toronto and even May 25-26 in Toyota Center. Taylor Swift tickets to a good number of shows had already sold out. The first batch of dates reportedly sold out quickly, and tickets for several additional shows went on sale.
The 19-year-old performer, who is the youngest artist in history to be nominated for the CMA’s Entertainer of the Year Award, released her second album set, “Fearless,” last fall. The album lasted 11 weeks atop The Billboard 200, making it the 10th longest-running number 1 record in the history of the chart, and setting a record for the most weeks at the top for a female country artist.
Like her 2006 multi-platinum debut, Swift wrote or co-wrote every tune on “Fearless,” including seven tracks she penned by herself. Swift is the first female artist in country music history to take a writing credit on every song of a platinum-selling debut.
In April, Swift took home Album of the Year honors for “Fearless” at the 44th Academy of Country Music Awards show in Las Vegas. Swift was also granted the Crystal Milestone Award, given for “outstanding achievement in country music.”
Last year, She performed beside Def Leppard at the CMT Awards ceremony. The show proven so popular, the CMT network partnered with the performer’s record label to release the first-ever “Crossroads” DVD, titled “CMT Crossroads: Taylor Swift and Def Leppard.” The live set, which also features interviews with the artists, is available exclusively at Walmart and Sam’s Club locations.
