Josh Turner
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Awards

  • 2nd Annual French Country Music Awards - Top Foreign Male vocalist - 2004 NOMINEE
  • 2nd Annual French Country Music Awards - Top Foreign New talents (meilleur espoir)- 2004 WINNER
  • 2004 Country Music Association Awards Horizon Award - NOMINEE
  • 2004 Country Music Association Awards Song of the Year - "Long Black Train" - NOMINEE
  • 2004 Christian Country Music Association Awards Mainstream Country Artist of the Year - NOMINEE
  • 2004 Christian Country Music Awards - Song of the Year - Long Black Train - WINNER
  • 2004 Christian Country Music Awards - Songwriter of the Year - WINNER
  • 2004 Christian Country Music Awards - Video of the Year - Long Black Train - WINNER
  • 2006 - 2 GRAMMY Nominations: Best Country Album, Best Male Vocal Performance
  • 2006 - 3 Academy of Country Music (ACM) Nominations: Single of the Year & Song of the Year for "Would You Go With Me" and Vocal Event of the Year for "Me And God" featuring Dr. Ralph Stanley and Marty Roe, Gene Johnson and Dana Williams with Diamond Rio
  • 2007 CMA Male Vocalist of the Year nominee

Bullet Points

  • On October 30, 2007 Josh will release his much-anticipated third album, Everything is Fine, which has already produced his fastest rising single to date, appropriately titled “Firecracker”.
  • Turner self-penned four songs and co-wrote three of the 12 tracks on Everything is Fine.
  • On October 27, 2007 Josh will achieve one of his career goals when he is inducted into the Grand Ole Opry. He will be the youngest current member.
  • Josh is nominated for CMA Male Vocalist of the Year. He will be performing on the show, airing on ABC November 7th.
  • AOL just named Josh one of the Top 10 Hottest Men in Country Music Today.
  • Josh Turner’s sophomore album Your Man is certified double platinum, tying with only 2 other albums released in 2006, Rascal Flatts’ Me And My Gang and Dixie Chicks’ Long Way Home.
  • Turner had back-to-back multi-week #1 radio singles with “Would You Go With Me” and “Your Man” and back-to-back platinum albums, Long Black Train and Your Man.
  • In 2006, Your Man debuted at #1 on Billboard’s Top Country Albums Chart scanning over 100,000 copies its first week in stores. Josh became one of the Top 5 Best Selling Country Artists of the year, along with Rascal Flatts, Carrie Underwood, The Dixie Chicks, and Tim McGraw.
  • Your Man earned Josh two Grammy nominations in 2007 for “Best Country Album” and “Best Country Male Vocal Performance”.
  • Last year, Josh and his wife Jennifer welcomed the arrival of their first child, Hampton Otis Turner, in October 2006.