Contact: Jim Weiss, 770-692-4579, jim@gospelmusicchannel.com

ATLANTA, Dec. 22 /Christian Newswire/ -- In the second biggest election of the year, thousands of Gospel/Christian music fans let their voices be heard and the results will be announced on Sat. Dec. 27 at 8:00 p.m. ET/PT on Gospel Music Channel (GMC) in the 2008 Gospel Music Channel Video Awards.

The nominees:

Rock -- Fireflight "Unbreakable" - Flyleaf "All Around Me" - NEEDTOBREATHE "Signature Of Divine (Yahweh)" - Family Force 5 "Never Let Me Go" - Red "Already Over"

Pop: SONSOFDAY "This Place" - eleventyseven "Love In Your Arms" -Stellar Kart "Innocent" - Michelle Bonilla "Your Show" -21:03 "You"

Country: Phil Stacey "If You Didn't Love Me" - Rascal Flatts "Every Day" - Trace Adkins "You're Gonna Miss This" - Phil Vassar "Love Is A Beautiful Thing" - Randy Travis "Faith In You"

Soul: Blind Boys of Alabama "Free At Last" - DeWayne Woods "Let Go" - Hoszia Hinds "I'm Calling" - Kevin Levar "You Are Not Alone" - Marvin Sapp "Never Would Have Made It"

Contemporary: Kirk Franklin "Declaration (This Is It)" - Switchfoot "This Is Home" - Danny Liston "Change the World" - David Phelps "No More Night" - Steven Curtis Chapman "Cinderella"

Hip Hop: T-Bone "Name Droppin'" - Lecrae "Prayin For You" - Tye Tribbett "Good In The Hood" - KJ - 52 "Do Yo Thang" - KJ - 52 "Fan Mail"

Latin: Ingrid Rosario "Quiero Estar En Tu Presencia" - Funky feat. Alex Campos "No Vuelvo Pa'tras" - Benjamín Rivera "Dios Es Amor"

The Gospel Music Channel television network created the GMCVAs to honor the top videos in seven genre categories as well as the overall Top Video of the Year with winners being determined by viewers and fans through online voting at www.GospelMusicChannel.com. Voters chose from nominees that were determined by the amount of airplay the videos received on Gospel Music Channel during 2008.

Gospel Music Channel is the fastest-growing network in television today and can be seen in more than 40 million homes on various cable systems around the country and on DIRECTV on channel 338.