BMI Dominates ACM Awards!
Multiple winners included the Dixie Chicks who were named Top Vocal Duo/Group of the Year and whose Grammy Award winning Fly was named Album of the Year. The Dixie Chicks, who according to ACM Awards host Dolly Parton "are clucking right along," also won Album of the Year last year. Pop music's latest country darling, Faith Hill, was named Top Female Vocalist for the second year in a row and her crossover hit "Breathe" was named Top Country Video. Also receiving multiple honors was Lonestar's "Amazed," written by Marv Green, Aimee Mayo and Chris Lindsey, taking home awards for Song and Single Record of the Year.
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Country music icon Tammy Wynette was the first posthumous recipient of the "Cliffie" Pioneer Award, given for "outstanding and unprecedented achievements in the field of country music." The award, instituted in 1968, was dubbed the "Cliffie" last year in honor of late BMI songwriter Cliffie Stone, a Country Music Hall of Fame member and 1972 recipient of the honor.
Complete List of BMI Winners
entertainer of the year
Shania Twain
top female vocalist
Faith Hill
top male vocalist
Tim McGraw
top new vocal duo/group
Montgomery Gentry
single record of the year
"Amazed"
written by Marv Green, Aimee Mayo and Chris Lindsey
performed by Lonestar
album of the year
Fly
co-produced by Blake Chancey
"cliffie" pioneer award
Tammy Wynette
top vocal event
"When I Said I Do"
Clint Black with Lisa Hartman Black
produced by Clint Black
song of the year
"Amazed"
written by Marv Green, Aimee Mayo and Chris Lindsey
published by Careers-BMG Music Publishing Inc., Golden Wheat Music, Silverkiss Music, Songs of Nashville Dreamworks and Warner-Tamerlane Music Publishing Corp.
top country video
"Breathe"
Faith Hill
top vocal duo/group of the year
Dixie Chicks
instrumentalists of the year
fiddle
Stuart Duncan
guitar
Brent Mason
keyboard
John Hobbs
specialty instruments
Jerry Douglas (Dobro)
steel guitar
Jay Dee Maness
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