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Carrie Underwood and Taylor Swift are once again in the running for country music gold! CMT announced its first-round finalists for the CMT Music Awards.

And the two singers both picked up nominations.Underwood's "Cowboy Casanova" is nominated for both Video of the Year and Female Video of the Year.

And Swift's "You Belong With Me" is in the running in the same categories. Also up for Female Video of the Year is Kellie Pickler with "Didn't You Know How Much I Loved You."

Also up for best video -- which can be awarded to male, female, group, duo or collaboration -- are Kenny Chesney, Toby Keith, Lady Antebellum, Miranda Lambert, Brad Paisley.

Keith Urban and Zac Brown Band.Fans can vote through May 3 on CMT.com to narrow each category to four finalists, which will be announced May 11 (except for Video of the Year, for which finalists will be announced at the beginning of the awards show).

Sarod maestro Amjad Ali feels that the classical music is facing a lot of "cultural aggression" in India and it is a miracle that the young generation is still interested in preserving the tradition. "I have been seeing the cultural aggression gradually in our country. It is two hundred television channels versus traditional art whether classical music or theatre or dance," Khan said.

"I'm seeing today that the generation of Amaan and Ayaan...if they are playing classical music it is God's wish because there is so much temptations around...it is a miracle," he added. Khan points out that while the niche audience of classical music is still alive in the country, the decline in the number of concerts, especially in North India, is cause for worry.

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Looks like teen queen Miley Cyrus wasn't joking when she said recently how it was time for her to exit the music business and focus on acting.

She recently revealed on The View that she's become a bit disheartened because "the music industry isn't as positive as I would like it to be."

Much like when she deleted her Twitter and did not return to the social media site despite harsh criticism, Cyrus is sticking to her guns here.

"I've got a record coming out in June, then I'm done," she said. "I just want to work in movies. That's what I like and what I want to be doing."Her new film The Last Song, opening this week, is Miles' first acting project outside of Hannah Montana, and co-stars her new boyfriend Liam Hemsworth.

Miley and Liam made a splash on the red carpet last week, and while he may be a tad biased, he says he wasn't surprised that Cyrus held her own acting.

"You know how she feels when she's feeling down and you know how she feels when she is feeling up," he said. "She's always a very expressive person."

"That really works on the screen, and she's really good."

Is she? We'll find out when we review The Last Song.

Singer-fashion designer Gwen Stefani has revealed that she took up designing so that she would have something creative to do after she quits making music.Stefani, 40, who has found success with her label L.A.M.B. since its launch in 2003, said her need for a back-up plan, once her music career ended, led her to take up designing.

"I made so many clothes growing up, and I used to do my own costumes, all I would do was just daydream about what I was going to make," the Daily Express quoted her as telling InStyle magazine.

"I wanted so badly to have a back-up plan for when I'm not performing anymore. Let's be realistic. It's not going to be like this forever. So I wanted to continue having something creative to do," she added.

The industry was sent into shock last week when BBC Director General Mark Thompson confirmed plans to close the two digital stations, as well as several websites including Switch and Blast, as part of plans to save £600m.

The BBC's Strategy Review proposals have now been submitted to the BBC Trust and a wider consultation will take place over the next 12 weeks before a final decision is made.UK Music CEO Feargal Sharkey says that it is vitally important that the pressure is kept up on the BBC trust over this period.

“Over the past week, many of UK Music’s members have expressed public outrage at the decisions to close 6 Music and the Asian Network. These feelings were repeated, passionately, loudly and unanimously at the UK Music board meeting. Losing these stations is not an option for this industry. It is now paramount that we keep the pressure on. Both collectively and individually this is precisely what we will be doing in the months ahead.”

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No? Well it does for the person who sang it...Yep, Katy Perry has revealed that she finds her music “annoying”.

Talking to NYLON magazine, Katy spoke about how is trying to develop the music on her next album to be more “grown up” and “darker”.

“The new music is still fun, but it's a bit darker.”“It's not as annoying. If you do something over and over again, it's like Chinese water torture.” “If it hits your head enough times, you want to die. You have to just evolve.” Well, that's a first... but Katy your music isn't that bad and the lyrics 'I kissed a girl and I liked it' maybe what hooked you Russell Brand in the first place....

The Dominican bachata group Aventura swept the annual 'Premio lo Nuestro' Latin music awards show for the second year in a row. The group, which mixes hip-hop beats and traditional island sound, nabbed trophies for best tropical album, "The Last," best tropical group and best tropical song of the year, "Por un segundo" ("For a second").

Aventura also took home best traditional artist and Premio Lo Nuestro artist of the year. The live show broadcast by Univision from Miami featured performances by Chayanne, Paulina Rubio and Daddy Yankee. Puerto Rican Luis Fonsi took home three awards, as did Mexican singer-songwriter Espinoza Paz. Spanish pop sensation La Quinta Estacion and Nicaraguan salsa artist Luis Enrique brought home two each.

It will be one-stop shopping for MTV this awards season: The network is holding both the MTV Movie and the Video Music Awards in the Los Angeles area. The network announced Wednesday that the movie awards will air live from Universal City, Calif., on June 6. The Video Music Awards, held last year in New York City, will air live from Los Angeles on Sept. 12.

Music’s biggest night was Taylor Swift’s impossible dream come true, as the 20-year-old singer-songwriter won four trophies, including the all-genre album of the year prize, at Sunday’s 52nd annual Grammy Awards. “I just hope that you know how much this means to me and to Nathan (Chapman) my producer, and to all these musicians you see on this stage, that we get to take this back to Nashville,” Swift said. “This is for my dad: Thank you for all those times you said I could do whatever I wanted in life.

“All of us, when we’re 80 years old and we’re telling the same stories again and again to our grandkids… this is the story we’ll be telling,” she said, as her self-penned (with Nashville song-scribe Liz Rose) “You Belong With Me” began playing as outro music and TV credits rolled.

Beyonce Knowles grabbed a night-topping six Grammys, including best song and best female pop vocal performance. Hers is the biggest one-night haul for any female artist in Grammy history. But in the end, the top prize went to Swift, whose win made her the third Nashville-based best album Grammy winner in the past eight years.

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Fifty thousand people are expected to attend the festival in north-west New South Wales over the next two weeks, giving the local economy a significant boost.

On Friday night alone, around 5,000 country music fans streamed into Tamworth's Bicentennial Park to mark the beginning of a 10-day country music odyssey.

The festival began with a free concert featuring a long line-up of Australian country music talent, including Tanya Kernaghan, the sister of country music star Lee Kernaghan.

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