The nominees were announced today for the first annual American Country Awards. To be broadcast in December on Fox TV, the awards program has 17 categories covering artists, albums, packaged tour, singles, and videos. Lets find out how the nominations played out.

The 2010 American Music Awards have been announced and country music's breakthrough-artist of 2010, Lady Antebellum, joins Eminem in leading the pack of nominations.  Each scored five nominations while pop stars like Justin Bieber and B.o.B. scored four each.

Virtually every artist that appeared on the ACM Awards last week scored at Retail with their latest albums, and in the case of Lady Antebellum both of their albums doing well on the sales charts. We chronicle this week's Top 15 and 10 other interesting recordsings.

Kenny Chesney finally saw some sales growth this week for his reissued Greatest Hits II album that now features "Ain't Back Yet." Lady A moved up a spot while Miranda kept pace as well. How did the rest of the chart shake out? Where did Laura Bell Bundy debut?

With all of this week's albums feeling a post-Easter drop, as was expected, there were a few albums which bucked that trend and one of them was Miranda Lambert's Revolution. Where did the album land? Who did it push out of the Top 5? The answers are here.

With Easter giving the whole music industry a boost, Lady Antebellum and Alan Jackson paced this week's Hot 200 Albums chart provided by Nielsen SoundScan. Where did Grechen Wilson place? did your favorite artist make the Top 15 country albums?

Like we predicted in these pages last week, Lady Antebellum saw their nine week old album Need You Now tumble down the Hot 200 Chart compiled by Nielsen SoundScan.  Where did the album place and how did the rest of country music's albums fare this week?

For yet another week, Lady Antebellum has earned the best-selling album in the country with Need You Now. This week we saw the debut of two new releases on the charts as well.  How did the rest of the best-selling country albums fare this week?

After a few weeks away from the top spot, Lady Antebellum returns this week to #1 on the Nielsen SoundScan Hot 200 and Hot Country Albums charts.  Where did the new releases from Blake Shelton, Danny Gokey and Easton Corbin place?

Not much has changed the last few weeks on the Nielsen SoundScan Hot 200 Albums Charts for the Top two albums (Lady Antebellum and Sade).  How did Johnny Cash's new release fare?  What about Sarah Buxton and Josh Thompson's debuts?  We've got here, just for you.