Carrie Underwood bagged the entertainer of the year award on Sunday night at the Academy of Country Music Awards. She won the top honor that has evaded women for nearly a decade. Taylor Swift won the album of the year and Julianne Hough took away top new artist award.

Kanye West might just have a major problem and several other issues with Taylor Swift’s growing popularity, but who really cares? West like it or not this is definitely Swift’s year. The country crooner Taylor Swift overshadowed the late Michael Jackson by picking up 5 leading awards as the King of Pop pocketed 4 nods at the American Music Awards. Swift’s 5 nods included the prestigious artist of the year award at the AMA held on Sunday. The 19 year old country singer proved all MJ fans wrong who expected the Pop King to get a clean sweep. Swift have him a head to head competition in the ceremony’s final prize, the artist of the year category. Besides winning the favorite female artist in the pop/rock and country categories Swift also won favorite adult-contemporary artist award. “Feerless”, the 2008 release of Swift, was named favorite country album. Feerless became the best-selling release in the United States this year.

Mark Mcleod, a 53 year old man, has been sentenced to probation of 2 years (24 months) against charges of stalking pop singer and actress Miley Cyrus, reports the Associated Press. The report says the the Miley stalker admitted to “resisting the police guards” during the shooting of her film, “The Last Song”, in the coast of Georgia in an island called Tybee. He was reported to have announced himself as being engaged to her. This incident occurred in early August this year. McLeod had been jailed since then while investigations were being done.

Second week in a row and Michael Buble still continues to dominated the US Pop Album Chart. The soundtrack from “The Twilight Saga: New Moon” topped the second place of the billboard after its release.

The Disney sweetheart Miley Cyrus quits Twitter leaving millions of her fans and followers heartbroken. Miley was very regular with the social networking site and she had been keeping her fans informed about her latest updates throught tweets.