Carrie Underwood delivers touching performance, repeats at ACMs

She may not have won five of the six categories she was nominated in, but Carrie Underwood reigned supreme for the second year in a row as she took home top honors as "Entertainer of the Year" at the 45th annual Academy of Country Music Awards. Watch her history-making winning moment below:

Before she was given the good news, Carrie kicked off the live television broadcast with a group performance of with Miranda Lambert, Brad Paisley and John Fogerty. Watch the performance below:



Later in the evening, Carrie received a standing ovation for her stringed-heavy performance of "Temporary Home," which almost got her crying.

Following the performance, host Reba McEntire presented her with the ACM "Triple Crown" award, which she qualified for since she has won Top New Female Vocalist, Top Female Vocalist and Entertainer of the Year in the past. This got Carrie on a roll with her speech, which showed the raw emotion that Carrie is known for.

She also presented the award for "Top Vocal Duo" alongside Randy Travis, which went to Brooks and Dunn in their final appearance together at the ACMs.

The ACMs took place at the MGM Grand in Las Vegas and were broadcast live on CBS.

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Kelly Clarkson on BBC's Radio 1

Kelly Clarkson just appeared on BBC's Radio 1 network where she was interviewed by of Annie of "Switch with Annie and Nick."

She talked about her love of snowboarding and her recent "Two Worlds, Two Voices" tour with Reba McEntire (she had to inform the host of who Reba was). She said she watches Idol from time to time but she misses it because she's always on tour.

She said All I Ever Wanted is different from her other albums in that like there are 70s influences and she confirmed that "Whyyawannabringmedown," which was originally recorded by Aranda, will be on the album. She said "whoever this chick is, she's hot!" about the album cover and said it was an industry joke that her cover was over-photoshopped because she wanted it to look like candy. She wrote six songs with Ryan Tedder for the album, with four songs making it onto the album.

She said "My Life Would Suck Without You" was a "twist" of what her usual "boy bashing" songs are. They played a clip of the single (the same clip that leaked on Amazon). Kelly confirmed the single will be available for radio to play beginning Tues., Jan. 13.

They also played a game called "to suck face or to not suck face" in which Kelly said she would "snog" Prince William and joked about needing security to escort her out after saying that.

The interview will probably be added to the show's Web site in the near future.

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Kelly's new album set for a Nov. 18 release

Not even available for pre-order, Kelly Clarkson's fourth studio album is already up on Amazon.com with a tentative release date set for Nov. 18, 2008. There has been much fanfare surrounding this release, so it will be interesting to see if Kelly and her crew stick to the plan or delay the release for whatever reason.

In other Kelly news, she confirmed a song title for her upcoming album - "Cry" - in a recent interview she did with her German fan site. She reportedly wrote the song with band mate Jason Halbert.

As far as touring in concerned, Kelly will rejoin Reba McEntire for another leg of their "2 Worlds 2 Voices" tour, which will run from Sept. 25 to Nov. 22.

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2008 CMT Music Awards to be an 'Idol' reunion

Idol fans might as well tune in for three nights this week for the second week in a row, as the 2008 CMT Music Awards will be swarming with former finalists.

Carrie Underwood will be performing and is nominated for Video of the Year for "Wasted" and Female Video of the Year for "So Small," while Kelly Clarkson is nominated alongside Reba McEntire for their duet of "Because of You" for Video of the Year and Collaborative Video of the Year. Kellie Pickler's "I Wonder" is nominated for Tearjerker Video of the Year and USA Weekend Breakthrough Video of the Year in addition to Awards Performance of the Year for her performance of "I Wonder" at the 31st annual Country Music Awards. Bucky Covington is also nominated for USA Weekend Breakthrough Video of the Year for "A Different World," while director Roman White is nominated for Video Director of the Year for three videos, including "Because of You" and "So Small."

Also set to appear is season 3 runner-up Diana DeGarmo, who will introduce Kenny Chesney with John Rich and a few fellow Gone Country stars. To top it off, Paula Abdul will introduce Faith Hill and Tim McGraw.

The show kicks off with live coverage on the red carpet at 7 p.m., followed by the live telecast at 8 p.m. ET, which will be streamed on CMT.com in addition to airing on CMT. A full list of nominees is available here.

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