Entertainer of the Year
Brooks & Dunn
Kenny Chesney
Alan Jackson
Toby Keith
Tim McGraw

Male Vocalist of the Year
Kenny Chesney
Alan Jackson
Toby Keith
Tim McGraw
Brad Paisley
George Strait

Female Vocalist of the Year
Terri Clark
Alison Krauss
Patty Loveless
Martina McBride
Dolly Parton

Vocal Group of the Year
Alabama
Diamond Rio
Dixie Chicks
Lonestar
Rascal Flatts

Vocal Duo of the Year
Bellamy Brothers
Brooks & Dunn
Montgomery Gentry
Sons of the Desert
The Warren Brothers

Horizon Award
Gary Allan
Buddy Jewell
Joe Nichols
Blake Shelton
Darryl Worley

Vocal Event of the Year (Awards presented to artists and producer(s))

• "Beer for My Horses"
Artists: Toby Keith duet with Willie Nelson
Record Label: DreamWorks

• "It's Five O'Clock Somewhere"
Artists: Alan Jackson and Jimmy Buffett
Record Label: Arista Nashville

• "Picture"
Artists: Kid Rock featuring Sheryl Crow
Record Label: Lava/Atlantic

• "Tears in the Holston River"
Artists: Nitty Gritty Dirt Band featuring Johnny Cash
Record Label: Capitol Nashville

• "The Truth About Men"
Artists: Tracy Byrd (with Andy Griggs, Montgomery Gentry and Blake Shelton)
Record Label: RCA

Album of the Year (Awards presented to artist(s) and producer(s))

• American IV: The Man Comes Around -- Johnny Cash
Producer: Rick Rubin
Record Label: Lost Highway

• Home -- Dixie Chicks
Producers: Dixie Chicks and Lloyd Maines
Record Label: Open Wide/Monument/Columbia

• Man With a Memory -- Joe Nichols
Producer: Brent Rowan
Record Label: Universal South

• Tim McGraw and the Dancehall Doctors -- Tim McGraw and the Dancehall Doctors
Producers: Byron Gallimore, Tim McGraw and Darran Smith
Record Label: Curb

• Unleashed -- Toby Keith
Producers: James Stroud and Toby Keith
Record Label: DreamWorks

Song of the Year (Awards presented to the songwriter(s) and publisher(s))

• "Beer for My Horses" -- Toby Keith duet with Willie Nelson
Writers: Toby Keith and Scotty Emerick
Publishers: Tokeco Tunes and Big Yellow Dog Music

• "Celebrity" -- Brad Paisley
Writer: Brad Paisley
Publishers: EMI April Music and Sea Gayle Music

• "Have You Forgotten?" -- Darryl Worley
Writers: Darryl Worley and Wynn Varble
Publishers: EMI April Music, Pittsburg Landing Songs and Warner-Tamerlane Pub.

• "Red Dirt Road" -- Brooks & Dunn
Writers: Kix Brooks and Ronnie Dunn
Publishers: Sony and ATV

• "Three Wooden Crosses" -- Randy Travis
Writers: Doug Johnson and Kim Williams
Publishers: Mike Curb Music, Sweet Radical Music, Sony and ATV Tunes

Single of the Year (Awards presented to artist(s)and producer(s))

• Beer for My Horses" -- Toby Keith duet with Willie Nelson
Producers: James Stroud andToby Keith
Record Label: DreamWorks

• "Celebrity" -- Brad Paisley
Producer: Frank Rogers
Record Label: Arista Nashville

• "Have You Forgotten?" -- Darryl Worley
Producers: Frank Rogers and James Stroud
Record Label: DreamWorks

• "Hurt" -- Johnny Cash
Producer: Rick Rubin
Record Label: Lost Highway

• "Three Wooden Crosses" -- Randy Travis
Producer: Kyle Lehning
Record Labels: Word, Curb and Warner Bros.

Music Video of the Year (Awards presented to artist(s) and director)

• "Beer for My Horses"
Artists: Toby Keith duet with Willie Nelson
Director: Michael Salomon

• "Celebrity"
Artist: Brad Paisley
Director: Peter Zavadil

• "Concrete Angel"
Artist: Martina McBride
Directors: Robert Deaton and George J. Flanigen IV

• "Hurt"
Artist: Johnny Cash
Director: Mark Romanek

• "Red Dirt Road"
Artist: Brooks & Dunn
Director: Steven Goldmann

Musician of the Year
Jerry Douglas -- Dobro
Paul Franklin -- steel guitar
Aubrie Haynie -- fiddle/mandolin
Brent Mason -- guitar
Randy Scruggs -- guitar

• Brooks & Dunn
• Kenny Chesney
• Alan Jackson
• Toby Keith
• Tim McGraw

Kelly Clarkson
Photo: RCA Records

She tugged at the nation's heartstrings on "American Idol," and now Kelly Clarkson is holding the pop-buying public by their purse strings with the best-selling album on next week's Billboard albums chart.

Fueled by the hit single "A Moment Like This," Thankful, Clarkson's debut LP, will bow at #1 with more than 297,000 copies sold, according to SoundScan figures released Wednesday. The album title is an understatement. The first-season "American Idol" winner and all those in her camp have got to be more than grateful that the nearly 300,000 copies sold were able to stave off this year's chart champion, 50 Cent. (See our feature, "Kelly Clarkson: Crowd Surfing Anti-Diva," for more on the American idol.)

The rapper's New Breed CD/DVD hybrid fell shy of the talent-pageant princess' album by more than 50,000 copies. The disc, featuring three previously unreleased 50 tracks, a live performance in Detroit, videos, and a big-house interview with the incarcerated Tony Yayo, sold more than 246,000 copies to place in the #2 spot.

The Queens, New York, rapper's debut album, Get Rich Or Die Tryin', will drop two spots to #5, selling more than 206,000 copies. Despite the dip to the album's lowest chart position in its 11-week run, 50 has the distinction of being the only artist in the last decade to place two albums in the top 5 in the same week.

He's not the only artist to pull off such a feat since SoundScan began clocking record sales in 1991, however. Garth Brooks had a pair of top 5'ers in 1992, with his Christmas album Beyond the Season and The Chase. A year before, both Bruce Springsteen and Guns N' Roses did it: the Boss with Human Touch and Lucky Town, and GN'R with both volumes of Use Your Illusion. (Asterisk alert: While the Springsteen and GN'R LPs were released simultaneously, that's not the case for Garth Brooks and 50 Cent, the true kings of the top 5.)

Fleetwood Mac's first new studio album in eight years, Say You Will, will claim the #3 spot with more than 217,000 copies sold in its opening week; while country singer Darryl Worley's third album, Have You Forgotten? — whose war-effort-inspired title is at once sympathetic and rallying — will bow in at #4, with more than 213,000 copies sold.

Parrotheads nationwide showed their support for their big kahuna Jimmy Buffett by scooping up his greatest-hits collection, Meet Me in Margaritaville, which also includes 11 previously-unreleased tracks, en mass. More than 127,000 copies of the two-disc set flew off shelves in its first week, with more than a month to prepare for that Memorial Day bash, too.

The record industry had a good week overall. All the albums in next week's top 10 increased their weekly sales from the week prior (it helps when half of them are chart debuts), and the total weekly sales of all top 200 albums was more than 6 million, a significant jump from the 4.3 million cumulative total the week before.

The remainder of the top 10 will include Linkin Park's Meteora, dropping four spots to #6 (192,000); Now That's What I Call Music! Vol. 12, sinking three spots to #7 (192,000); Norah Jones' Come Away With Me, down a notch to #8 (142,000); and The Very Best of Cher at #10 (121,000).

Pete Yorn will have the only other top 20 chart debut with his second album, Day I Forgot, at #18.

After their voluntary fall from Christian retail outlets, Evanescence finally fell out of the top 10, down from #10 to #12. The descent comes seven weeks after Fallen first dropped last month. Nevertheless, the album sold 23,000 more copies than the week before, to accumulate for a total of more than 670,000 copies.

Godsmack's Faceless will vacate the top slot it held last week to drop down to #13.

Other notable chart debuts include country crossover Jessica Andrews' Now at #34; jam band Widespread Panic's Ball at #61; reggae royalty Ziggy Marley's Dragonfly at #138; and soul crooner/son of actor Alan, Thicke's Beautiful World at #152.

• Kelly Clarkson
• 50 Cent
• Linkin Park
• Darryl Worley
• Evanescence