{"id":17332,"date":"2020-09-17T04:36:59","date_gmt":"2020-09-17T08:36:59","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/briwebapp.net\/cfcofm\/?p=17332"},"modified":"2020-09-17T09:59:15","modified_gmt":"2020-09-17T13:59:15","slug":"carrie-underwood-thomas-rhett-tie-for-acm-entertainer-of-the-year","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/briwebapp.net\/cfcofm\/blogs\/country-music-news\/2020\/09\/carrie-underwood-thomas-rhett-tie-for-acm-entertainer-of-the-year\/","title":{"rendered":"Carrie Underwood &amp; Thomas Rhett Tie For ACM Entertainer Of The Year"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The 55th ACM Awards show wrapped up with a big surprise, announcing two Entertainers of The Year for the first time ever.<\/p>\n<p>Host Keith Urban seemed shocked when he opened the envelope to read that both Carrie Underwood and Thomas Rhett had tied for first place.<\/p>\n<p>[twitter id=&#8221;1306427410699542528&#8243;]<\/p>\n<p>This was the first time it has happened in ACM Awards history.<\/p>\n<p>When accepting, Carrie summed it up by saying, \u201c2020 man!\u201d<\/p>\n<div class=\"video-shortcode embed-container\"><iframe loading=\"lazy\" title=\"YouTube video player\" width=\"610\" height=\"355\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/4WVyDl1-qoM\" frameborder=\"0\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe><\/div>\n<p>Due to the pandemic, artists appeared in front of empty seats from three venues around Music City &#8212; Grand Ole Opry, Ryman Auditorium and Bluebird Cafe. During a three hour period, the show flawlessly switched from one stage to the next.<\/p>\n<p>Among the stand-out performances, the show opened with back-to-back songs from all Entertainer of The Year nominees.<\/p>\n<p>Miranda Lambert performed &#8220;Bluebird&#8221; at the Bluebird Cafe with the song&#8217;s co-writers.<\/p>\n<div class=\"video-shortcode embed-container\"><iframe loading=\"lazy\" title=\"YouTube video player\" width=\"610\" height=\"355\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/jjkWRwnGH3s\" frameborder=\"0\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe><\/div>\n<p>Trisha Yearwood honoured the legends of country music that died over the past year. She sang \u201cI\u2019ll Carry You Home,\u201d a song from her, Every Girl album.<\/p>\n<p>[twitter id=&#8221;1306426326803312641&#8243;]<\/p>\n<p>Blake Shelton and Gwen Stefani performed \u201cHappy Anywhere\u201d in front of a green screen that virtually turned into the Bluebird Cafe at the snap of his fingers. Blake also won Single of the Year for \u201cGod\u2019s Country.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>[twitter id=&#8221;1306401991388573697&#8243;]<\/p>\n<p>In another genre crossover event, Keith Urban and Pink did their song, \u201cOne Too Many\u201d with a wall separating them for social distancing.<\/p>\n<p>[twitter id=&#8221;1306422634700181504&#8243;]<\/p>\n<p>In categories that are highly sought after, Luke Combs accepted awards for Album of The Year for What You See Is What You Get, as well as Male Artist of The Year. He also performed \u201cBetter Together.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>It was a big night for 30-year-old Maren Morris, winning Female Artist of the Year for the first time. In the middle of what may be the most quoted speech of the evening, she blurted out, \u201cOh my God, I have to pee!\u201d Earlier in the evening, she won for her collaboration with Miranda Lambert and others on \u201cFooled Around And Fell In Love.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Of their 5 nominations, Old Dominion took home two awards, for Group and Song of the Year. Their performance included a medley of their #1 hits.<\/p>\n<p>And Taylor Swift came home to country music for the night and did an acoustic version of her song \u201cBetty.\u201d<\/p>\n<div class=\"video-shortcode embed-container\"><iframe loading=\"lazy\" title=\"YouTube video player\" width=\"610\" height=\"355\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/orXAg5dIMa8\" frameborder=\"0\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe><\/div>\n<p>Here is the complete list of winners:<\/p>\n<p><strong>ENTERTAINER OF THE YEAR (TIE)<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>Carrie Underwood and Thomas Rhett<\/p>\n<p><strong>FEMALE ARTIST OF THE YEAR<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>Maren Morris<\/p>\n<p><strong>MALE ARTIST OF THE YEAR<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>Luke Combs<\/p>\n<p><strong>DUO OF THE YEAR<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>Dan + Shay<\/p>\n<p><strong>GROUP OF THE YEAR<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>Old Dominion<\/p>\n<p><strong>NEW FEMALE ARTIST OF THE YEAR<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>Tenille Townes<\/p>\n<p><strong>NEW MALE ARTIST OF THE YEAR<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>Riley Green<\/p>\n<p><strong>ALBUM OF THE YEAR<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>What You See Is What You Get, Luke Combs<\/p>\n<p><strong>SINGLE OF THE YEAR<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>&#8220;God&#8217;s Country&#8221; Blake Shelton<\/p>\n<p><strong>SONG OF THE YEAR<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>&#8220;One Man Band&#8221; Old Dominion<\/p>\n<p><strong>VIDEO OF THE YEAR<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>&#8220;Remember You Young&#8221; Thomas Rhett<\/p>\n<p><strong>SONGWRITER OF THE YEAR<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>Hillary Lindsey<\/p>\n<p><strong>\u200bMUSIC EVENT OF THE YEAR<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>\u201cFooled Around And Fell In Love\u201d Miranda Lambert Featuring Maren Morris, Ashley McBryde, Tenille Townes, Caylee Hammack &amp; Elle King<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"The 55th ACM Awards show wrapped up with a big surprise, announcing two Entertainers of The Year for the first time ever.","protected":false},"author":16,"featured_media":17334,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"featured_img_display":"No","footnotes":""},"categories":[16],"tags":[467,168,96,43,112,101,116,165,536,311,54],"class_list":["post-17332","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-country-music-news","tag-acm-awards","tag-blake-shelton","tag-carrie-underwood","tag-dan-shay","tag-keith-urban","tag-luke-combs","tag-maren-morris","tag-old-dominion","tag-riley-green","tag-tenille-townes","tag-thomas-rhett"],"publishpress_future_action":{"enabled":false,"date":"2026-04-11 06:50:03","action":"change-status","newStatus":"draft","terms":[],"taxonomy":"category","extraData":[]},"publishpress_future_workflow_manual_trigger":{"enabledWorkflows":[]},"react_link":"https:\/\/country929.com\/blogs\/country-music-news\/2020\/09\/carrie-underwood-thomas-rhett-tie-for-acm-entertainer-of-the-year\/","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/briwebapp.net\/cfcofm\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/17332","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/briwebapp.net\/cfcofm\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/briwebapp.net\/cfcofm\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/briwebapp.net\/cfcofm\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/16"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/briwebapp.net\/cfcofm\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=17332"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/briwebapp.net\/cfcofm\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/17332\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":17346,"href":"https:\/\/briwebapp.net\/cfcofm\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/17332\/revisions\/17346"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/briwebapp.net\/cfcofm\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/17334"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/briwebapp.net\/cfcofm\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=17332"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/briwebapp.net\/cfcofm\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=17332"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/briwebapp.net\/cfcofm\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=17332"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}