Jerry Douglas News

Brooks & Dunn and solo crooner Brad Paisley racked up six nominations apiece for the Country Music Association Awards, with Ronnie Dunn besting honky-tonk partner Kix Brooks by earning a seventh nod for cowriting the duo's hit "I Believe."

Paisley, along with double nominee and Sugarland frontwoman Jennifer Nettles, announced the contenders Wednesday during Good Morning America.

Brooks & Dunn received their obligatorily Vocal Duo nomination--an honor the twosome has taken home 13 previous times. The boys also netted noms for Single and Music Video of the Year for their hit "I Believe," as well as an Album of the Year mention for Hillbilly Deluxe and a nod for their collaboration with Sheryl Crow and Vince Gill on "Building Bridges."

Dunn's individual nod for penning the duo's inspirational single marks his first solo nomination.

They will also compete for the CMA's top trophy, Entertainer of the Year, a category comprised solely of male artists.

Paisley also made the Entertainer of the Year cut, as did Kenny Chesney, Rascal Flatts, Keith Urban.

Paisley is also up for Male Vocalist, Album of the Year for Time Well Wasted, and three nominations stemming from "When I Get Where I'm Going," his collaboration with Dolly Parton: Single, Music Video and Musical Event.

Amongh the other multiple nominees: the ex-Mr. Zellweger, the current Mr. Kidman and a former American Idol.

Chesney, Urban and Carrie Underwood each collected four nominations, with the Some Hearts songbird up for the Horizon Award (for best new artist), Female Vocalist and Single and Music Video for the single "Jesus Take the Wheel."

Chesney and Urban, in addition to their dueling Entertainer of the Year nods, will also battle it out for Male Vocalist. Chesney rounds out his nominations with nods for Album of the Year for The Road and the Radio and Single of the Year for "Summertime."

Reigning Entertainer of the Year Urban, meanwhile, is also up for Single of the Year for "Better Life" and Song of the Year for "Tonight I Wanna Cry," which he cowrote.

Rascal Flatts and Parton each scored three nominations apiece; Big & Rich, Faith Hill, Alan Jackson, Miranda Lambert, Little Big Town, Sugarland and Gretchen Wilson netted two each.

After 34 years on CBS, the CMAs will move to ABC for the Nov. 6 ceremony, which also returns to Nashville after last year's New York experiment.

Here's the complete list of nominees:

Entertainer of the Year

• Brooks & Dunn
• Kenny Chesney
• Brad Paisley
• Rascal Flatts
• Keith Urban

Female Vocalist

• Sara Evans
• Faith Hill
• Martina McBride
• Carrie Underwood
• Gretchen Wilson

Male Vocalist

• Dierks Bentley
• Kenny Chesney
• Alan Jackson
• Brad Paisley
• Keith Urban

Vocal Group

• Alison Krauss & Union Station Featuring Jerry Douglas
• Little Big Town
• Lonestar
• Rascal Flatts
• Sugarland

Vocal Duo

• Big & Rich
• Brooks & Dunn
• Montgomery Gentry
• Van Zant
• The Wreckers

Horizon Award

• Miranda Lambert
• Little Big Town
• Sugarland
• Josh Turner
• Carrie Underwood

Album of the Year

• Hillbilly Deluxe, Brooks & Dunn
• Me and My Gang, Rascal Flatts
• Precious Memories, Alan Jackson
• The Road and the Radio, Kenny Chesney
• Time Well Wasted, Brad Paisley

Single of the Year

• "Believe," Brooks & Dunn
• "Better Life," Keith Urban
• "Jesus, Take the Wheel," Carrie Underwood
• "Summertime," Kenny Chesney
• "When I Get Where I'm Going," Brad Paisley (Featuring Dolly Parton)

Song of the Year

• "8th of November," Big Kenny and John Rich
• "Believe," Craig Wiseman and Ronnie Dunn
• "Jesus, Take the Wheel," Hillary Lindsey, Brett James and Gordie Sampson
• "Tonight I Wanna Cry," Keith Urban and Monty Powell
• "When I Get Where I'm Going," Rivers Rutherford and George Teren

Musical Event

• "Building Bridges," Brooks & Dunn (Guest vocals by Sheryl Crow and Vince Gill)
• "Like We Never Loved at All," Faith Hill (Featuring Tim McGraw)
• "Politically Uncorrect," Gretchen Wilson (Featuring Merle Haggard)
• "When I Get Where I'm Going," Brad Paisley (Featuring Dolly Parton)
• "Who Says You Can't Go Home," Bon Jovi (Duet With Jennifer Nettles of Sugarland)

Music Video of the Year

• "8th of November," Big & Rich
• "Believe," Brooks & Dunn
• "Jesus, Take the Wheel," Carrie Underwood
• "Kerosene," Miranda Lambert
• "When I Get Where I'm Going," Brad Paisley (Featuring Dolly Parton)