I don't think this has been posted yet.............
NASHVILLE, 31 DEC 03) -- The Roughstock Network (
http://www.roughstock.com/) announced their 2003 Single and Album of the Year awards today, the ninth year that Roughstock has conducted their fan-voted Roughstock Country Music Awards. Diamond Rio's "I Believe" took Single of the Year honors. With four singles in the year-end chart, Tim McGraw's "Tim McGraw and The Dancehall Doctors" was named 2003 Album of the Year.
The Single and Album of the Year awards are compiled from the results of the weekly Roughstock Country Countdown (
http://www.roughstock.com/roughstock/rcc.html) chart. The RCC Chart is the largest fan-voted country music chart, with over 120,000 votes tabulated each week. Along with the announcement, Roughstock released their 2003 Year-End Singles, Albums, and Country Record Label charts and honored their Best New Artist for 2003. Roughstock also named Artist of the Year, Female Artist of the Year, Male Artist of the Year, and Duo/Group of the Year awards for the third year.
Toby Keith made it three straight Artist and Male Artist of the Year awards, easily outdistancing Kenny Chesney, Tim McGraw and Keith Urban.
Shania Twain was the only female artist to crack the top 10, finishing the year ninth overall. Twain topped last year's winner, Martina McBride, for Female Artist of the Year. With two singles in the Top 50, including his debut single, Jimmy Wayne topped newcomers Dierks Bentley and Jeff Bates for 2003's Best New Artist award.
Diamond Rio celebrated their return to the charts with their new album "Completely," earning the top single award. "I Believe" spent 2 weeks at number one and 12 weeks in the top 10 in the spring and summer of 2003. The Single of the Year award is the group's first from Roughstock. Tim McGraw and his road band, The Dancehall Doctors, charted four singles from their first studio collaboration to edge Keith Urban's "Golden Road" and "Melt" from Rascal Flatts for Album of the Year.
Extending their dominance of the charts, male artists held nine of the top ten artist spots in 2003. Toby Keith lapped the field in winning a record third consecutive Male Artist of the Year award. Alan Jackson, Kenny Chesney, Tim McGraw and Keith Urban enjoyed strong years, with Chesney, McGraw and Urban all placing four singles in the year-end chart. Alan Jackson enjoyed two smash hits in 2003, including "It's Five O'Clock Somewhere," his duet with Jimmy Buffett, at number 7.
Rascal Flatts' 2003 "Melt" album enjoyed enough chart success to earn the trio their first Duo/Group Award after a third place finish in 2002. Past winner Lonestar, duo Montgomery Gentry, Diamond Rio and Brooks & Dunn rounded out the top five spots. The New Artist Category was dominated by men in 2003, led by Jimmy Wayne. Dierks Bentley, Jeff Bates, and "Nashville Star" winner Buddy Jewell were among the new artists who enjoyed hit singles in 2003.
The success of "Up!" helped Shania Twain chart four singles, including "Forever And For Always" at number six, helping her to win Female Artist of the Year.
RCA Nashville dethroned two-time winner Arista Nashville for their first Label of the Year award. RCA charted 7 singles from 7 different albums to take top imprint honors. Arista finished second with 6 singles and 5 albums on the year-end charts. Five time winner MCA Nashville continued their drought, slipping to eighth. Craig Morgan's "Almost Home" earned independent label Broken Bow Records a place on the Label award chart for the first time.
Each year, Roughstock announces its Country Music Awards, aggregating performances by songs and albums on each of the weekly Roughstock Country Countdown singles charts. The year-end Singles and Albums charts and Artist of the Year awards are based on a point recap system that awards points according to a complex, inverse relation to chart position for each week a title appeared on the chart. The Label chart and Songwriter of the Year award are compiled using a formula based on the number of titles appearing in the singles and albums charts as well as the point recap system. The chart year began with the January 4, 2003 RCC chart and concluded with the one dated December 27, 2003.
Nearly 3 million people listened to Roughstock's weekly Countdown show, "The Roughstock Country Countdown with Don Steel," and visited the weekly Countdown charts this past year. Roughstock has presented the weekly Roughstock Country Countdown in its current format since 1995. The largest independent country music site on the Web with over 9 million annual visitors, Roughstock celebrated its 10th anniversary in 2003.
but i'm very proud of shania that got number 5
Thanks jen!
Fantastic stuff, thanks for the news 
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