Carrie Underwood Taylor Swift in ACM Spotlight

Online, April 21, 2010 (Newswire.com) - With all due admiration to the most important men of country, this year's Academy of Country Music Awards looks like it's going to the gals.
Carrie Underwood can make history as she is the first woman to win two entertainer of the year awards when the stars churn out at the MGM Grand on Sunday night in Las Vegas.

Also up for the fan-voted award is Taylor Swift, the 20-year-old sensation who brought her country music to a enormous conventional audience, making her one of pop music's biggest stars.

Men have extensive dominated the award. But ACM host Reba McEntire tells whereas most of Sunday's awards are still voted on by members of the music industry, technology may give Underwood and Swift an benefit over the guys.

"Perhaps the probability of a duplicate are pretty thin, but it's great to even have that chance," Carrie Underwood said. "I know how blessed I am to have that opportunity."

Carrie Underwood has profusion of reason to be self-assured. Nothing much has changed since she won last April. Her latest album, "Play On," was one of 2009's top albums, she lately earned her 12th straight country No. 1 with "Temporary Home" and she's ramped up the fireworks on her latest tour.

Underwood and Miranda Lambert are up for six awards along with the Zac Brown Band. Swift is up for five nominations.

One of the more closely watched awards will be vocal group of the year, where Rascal Flatts has dominated for much of the decade. Their seventh straight win last year pushed them past Alabama in the category, but they face Lady A and the Zac Brown Band - two of the genre's most popular young acts.