The 35th American Music Awards were held at the new Nokia Theatre L.A. live in downtown Los Angeles on Sunday night. Casting Crowns takes home the Contemporary Inspirational category.

“This is an incredible honour! Wow, an American Music Award; this is voted on by our fans so it’s very special to us. We’re both humbled and honoured to represent Christian music, and its fans tonight,” noted Mark Hall, lead singer and youth pastor.

Other nominees in this category included and Jeremy Camp and TobyMac.

In related AMA news:

• The Jonas Brothers performed their hit song S.O.S..

• Kirk Franklin handed out Favorite Adult Contemporary Artist to Daughtry, his second award of the evening.

• Josh Groban introduced Celine Dion.

• Miley Cyrus presented T-Mobile Text-In Award to Carrie Underwood.

• Vanessa Hudgens and Ashley Tisdale from High School Musical present Daughtry with their third award of the evening. High School Musical 2 won in the Soundtracks category.
  
  

Initial nominees were selected by using ballots containing names compiled from data supplied by the music industry trade publication, Radio & Records and Nielsen Soundscan, which tracks retail music sales. The ballots were then sent to a national sampling of more than 15,000 people based on what type of music they listen to, what they buy and how many albums they purchase per year. The sampling also took into account geographic location, age, sex and ethnic origin. The top three vote getters were determined to be the nominees for this year’s American Music Awards. For the first time in American Music Awards history, winners were determined by online voting at ama.abc.com.

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