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Carrie Underwood's awesome week got off to a roaring start at the CMT Music Awards.
Garth Brooks and George Strait will perform together for the first time at next month's Academy of Country Music Awards to honor Dick Clark.
Already busy co-hosts Blake Shelton and Luke Bryan also will perform during this year's Academy of Country Music Awards.
They don't call him Chief for nothing: Eric Church is the top nominee at this year's Academy of Country Music Awards.

They don't call him "Chief" for nothing: Eric Church is the top nominee at this year's Academy of Country Music Awards.
Luke Bryan is joining Blake Shelton to co-host the 2013 Academy of Country Music Awards.

Turns out in addition to 2011, Adele ruled 2012, too — and set a record while she was at it.

Luke Bryan didn't want the American Country Awards to end Monday night.
Luke Bryan didn't want the American Country Awards to end.

Justin Bieber may be Canadian, but he was the all-American boy at Sunday night's American Music Awards.
Winners of the 40th anniversary American Music Awards, presented Sunday at the Nokia Theatre in Los Angeles:
Pink on a song with Lauryn Hill? The pop star hopes so.
Justin Bieber and Nicki Minaj performed together _ and separately _ at the American Music Awards. They both were also double winners.
Justin Bieber thanked his haters after winning the first award at the American Music Awards, while Nicki Minaj and Taylor Swift performed their new singles.
In one of the Country Music Association Awards' most emotional moments in recent memory, husband and wife stars Blake Shelton and Miranda Lambert won song of the year Thursday night.
"You had to keep your wardrobe consistent the whole week," he said.
Fred was OK, but Bryan said his side still hurts from laughing so hard.