Country Music Represents in Multiple People’s Choice Awards Categories! The fan voted 2012 People’s Choice Awards are coming up in January, and the nominations have been announced. Although this is a multi-genre award show, country music is displaying its popularity by dominating in more than one category in the recently announced nominations! In the specifically country, “Favorite Country Artist of the Year” nominees include Blake Shelton, The Band Perry, Brad Paisley, Jason Aldean, Kenny Chesney, Lady Antebellum, Miranda Lambert, Rascal Flatts, Sugarland, Taylor Swift and Zac Brown Band. Country artists are also nominated in categories that are open to multiple genres! Nominees in the “Favorite Male Artist of the Year” category include Blake Shelton, Kenny Chesney and Keith Urban, and in the “Favorite Female Artist of the Year” category Miranda Lambert and Taylor Swift are both nominated. Eric Church, Lady Antebellum and Blake Shelton are all nominated for “Favorite Album of the Year” for Chief, Own The Night, and Red River Blue respectively. Lastly, Taylor Swift, Rascal Flatts, Kenny Chesney, Keith Urban and Sugarland all garnered nominations in the “Favorite Headline Tour of the Year” category. Click here to vote and find out more about all the nomination categories. The 2012 People’s Choice Awards will air LIVE from the Nokia Theater in Los Angeles on Wednesday, January 11th at 9pm ET on CBS.
