James Otto Nominated For CMA New Artist

James Otto’s received his first CMA Award nomination for the New Artist Of The Year category during the CMA Awards live nominations press conference in Nashville.

“I have been in this business for a lot of years and to be acknowledged by my peers is overwhelming. I am still in shock...The new artists out there are so strong that I thought there was no way that I was going to be nominated,” said Otto. The only thing I have ever won was most athletic in high school and no disrespect to Ki-Be High, but this CMA nomination blows that one out of the water.”

One of the fastest rising stars of country music today, Otto’s debut album on Warner Bros. Records, Sunset Man, was released on April 8, 2008 and debuted at No. 3 on the Top 200 Billboard Chart. The album continued to stay in the Top 5 on Billboard’s Country Albums charts for six weeks after its release. The first single off the album, “Just Got Started Lovin’ You,” produced by John Rich, spent two weeks in the No. 1 position on the Billboard, Mediabase and R&R top country singles charts, and is Country Radio’s most played song of 2008 to date, according to mediabase. Otto’s second single, “For You,” is produced by Jay DeMarcus of Rascal Flatts and is currently climbing the charts. Catch James Otto’s live on Alan Jackson’s Good Time Tour.

source: Warner Bros. Nashville