Taylor Swift Wins Favorite Female Country Artist and Woos Fans With Amazing Performance at the 2010 American Music Awards

Country music superstar Taylor Swift picked up the award for Favorite Female Country Artist tonight at the 2010 American Music Awards broadcast live from the Nokia Center in Los Angles, California. Miranda Lambert and Carrie Underwood were the two other nominees in the category. This was the only nomination that Swift was nominated for.

Swift also amazed fans and gained some new ones tonight with her live performance during the 2010 American Music Awards.

I had been hearing rumors during the past week saying that Taylor Swift's performance would "steal the show." I also heard that her performance would be spectacular and one that nobody will be able to top in the future. Another tidbit I heard was that there would be flying pianos. Interesting, indeed!

After hearing all of these things, there was only one thing I could possibly do, and that was to tune in and watch the 2010 American Music Awards for myself and catch Taylor Swift's performance.

Swift performed a hit from her new CD, "Back to December." She entered the stage on a platform coming down from the ceiling sitting at the piano. The stage setting was spectacular and in my opinion better than the set for her performance of the same song for the 2010 County Music Awards.

Swift and the piano landed in a winter wonderland with trees lit up in white lights, snow falling and a full moon appearing toward the end of the song. It was simply beautiful and very fitting for the song performed.

There were no flying pianos, but Swift's entrance was unique and her performance the best of the night or very close to it! Swift is known for making spectacular entrances from the ceiling and has appeared coming down in a big balloon and a swing on previous award show performances.

Others performing on the live show broadcast on ABC on Sunday, November 21, 2010 were:

Backstreet Boys

The Black Eyed Peas

Bon Jovi

Carlos Santana

Enrique-Inglesias with Pitbull

Gavin Rossdale

Justin Bieber

Katy Perry

Ke$ha

Kid Rock

Christina Aguilera

Miley Cyrus

New Kids on the Block

Ne-Yo and Ditty Dirt Money featuring Sean Diddy Combs

Pink

Rihanna

Train

Usher

Country music star, Brad Paisley, took home the Favorite Male Country Artist Award for the second time in his career. Paisley also won this award in 2008.

Lady Antebellum won the award for Favorite Band/Duo/Group. This was the very first American Music Award win for Lady Antebellum.

Sources:

Personal Experience Watching the American Music Awards Live on ABC

ABC American Music Awards Performers