{"id":34693,"date":"2023-05-12T05:45:59","date_gmt":"2023-05-12T09:45:59","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/briwebapp.net\/cfcofm\/?p=34693"},"modified":"2023-05-12T04:40:21","modified_gmt":"2023-05-12T08:40:21","slug":"chris-stapleton-lainey-wilson-win-big-at-acm-awards","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/briwebapp.net\/cfcofm\/blogs\/country-music-news\/2023\/05\/chris-stapleton-lainey-wilson-win-big-at-acm-awards\/","title":{"rendered":"Lainey Wilson Wins Big At ACM Awards"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Lainey Wilson came up big at the 58th ACM Awards on Thursday, May 11th.<\/p>\n<p>She and Hardy shared Music Event of the Year and Visual Media of the Year for their song, &#8220;Wait in the Truck&#8221;, &#8220;Bell Bottom Country&#8221; won Album of the Year, and she topped that by winning Female Artist of the Year.<\/p>\n<p>Dolly Parton, who won Female Artist of the Year in 1980 announced Lainey as this year\u2019s winner. Stepping up to the microphone, she said,<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>\u201cI can\u2019t believe I just met Dolly Parton!\u201d<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<iframe loading=\"lazy\" class=\"insta-iframe\" src=\"https:\/\/www.instagram.com\/p\/CsIMFYfAXfG\/embed\/captioned\" width=\"auto\" height=\"auto\" frameborder=\"0\" scrolling=\"no\"><span data-mce-type=\"bookmark\" style=\"display:inline-block; width: 0px; overflow: hidden; line-height:0;\"  class=\"mce_SELRES_start\"><\/span><\/iframe>\n<p>Chris Stapleton won Entertainer of the Year. He got emotional accepting the award and acknowledged his family.<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>&#8220;By any imaginable metric, I don&#8217;t deserve this but, thank you. There are so many other great people in this category and I get through and I stand up and I play music, that&#8217;s what I try to do every night. I write songs and I make records and I never thought of myself as someone who would win this award. I&#8217;m so grateful to every person that works so hard to make us do what we do. My wife, thank you. Folks in management, red light management, universal. All the guys on the road touring. My band and crew, we have the greatest band in crew in the whole [bleep] world and that is the truth. I&#8217;m literally at a loss of words to say but I wanna say&#8230;my kids sitting home&#8230;they give up a lot of my time; a lot of my wife&#8217;s time so we can go do this. This is for them.&#8221;<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<iframe loading=\"lazy\" class=\"insta-iframe\" src=\"https:\/\/www.instagram.com\/p\/CsISBFFgCln\/embed\/captioned\" width=\"auto\" height=\"auto\" frameborder=\"0\" scrolling=\"no\"><span data-mce-type=\"bookmark\" style=\"display:inline-block; width: 0px; overflow: hidden; line-height:0;\"  class=\"mce_SELRES_start\"><\/span><\/iframe>\n<p>Ed Sheeran showed up, and his surprise collaborator was Luke Combs. They traded verses on Ed&#8217;s song &#8220;Life Goes On&#8221;.<\/p>\n<iframe loading=\"lazy\" class=\"insta-iframe\" src=\"https:\/\/www.instagram.com\/p\/CsILf_XA8__\/embed\/captioned\" width=\"auto\" height=\"auto\" frameborder=\"0\" scrolling=\"no\"><span data-mce-type=\"bookmark\" style=\"display:inline-block; width: 0px; overflow: hidden; line-height:0;\"  class=\"mce_SELRES_start\"><\/span><\/iframe>\n<p>Morgan Wallen won Best Male Artist, but wasn\u2019t in attendance.<\/p>\n<p>Cole Swindell\u2019s hit, \u201cShe Had Me At Heads Carolina\u201d picked up both Song and Single of the Year. Cole told the audience,<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>\u201cI don\u2019t know what I ever did to get this fortunate.\u201d<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>Brothers Osborne won Best Duo and Old Dominion won Group of the Year.<\/p>\n<p>The show was packed with live performances from Keith Urban, Jason Aldean, and Miranda Lambert.<\/p>\n<p>The big finish was Dolly&#8217;s performance of her rock anthem &#8220;World on Fire&#8221;. It featured fire bursting from the stage, a full band, and 10 dancers.in<\/p>\n<p>While the ACM Awards historically aired on network television, this year marked their 2nd year to be streamed and network free.<\/p>\n<p>Hosted by Dolly Parton and Garth Brooks, the 58th Academy of Country Music Awards was held in Frisco, Texas.<\/p>\n<p><em><strong>WINNERS<\/strong><\/em><\/p>\n<p><em>Entertainer of the Year:\u00a0<\/em>Chris Stapleton<\/p>\n<p><em>Album of the Year:\u00a0<\/em>Bell Bottom Country &#8211; Lainey Wilson<\/p>\n<p><em>Female Artist of the Year:\u00a0<\/em>Lainey Wilson<\/p>\n<p><em>Male Artist of the Year:\u00a0<\/em>Morgan Wallen<\/p>\n<p><em>Duo of the Year:\u00a0<\/em>Brothers Osborne<\/p>\n<p><em>Group of the Year:\u00a0<\/em>Old Dominion<\/p>\n<p><em>New Female Artist of the Year:\u00a0<\/em>Hailey Whitters<\/p>\n<p><em>New Male Artist of the Year:\u00a0<\/em>Zach Bryan<\/p>\n<p><em>Single of the Year:\u00a0<\/em>She Had Me at Heads Carolina &#8211; Cole Swindell<\/p>\n<p><em>Song of the Year:\u00a0<\/em>She Had Me at Heads Carolina &#8211; Tim Nichols, Cole Swindell, Ashley Gorley, and Mark D. Sanders<\/p>\n<p><em>Visual Media of the Year:\u00a0<\/em>Wait in the Truck &#8211; HARDY feat. Lainey Wilson<\/p>\n<p><em>Music Event of the Year:\u00a0<\/em>Wait in the Truck &#8211; HARDY feat. Lainey Wilson<\/p>\n<p><em>Artist-Songwriter of the Year:\u00a0<\/em>HARDY<\/p>\n<p><em>Songwriter of the Year:\u00a0<\/em>Ashley Gorley<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Chris Stapleton won Entertainer of the Year at the ACM Awards, while Lainey Wilson picked up four awards, including Female Artist of the Year and Album of the Year. \r\n","protected":false},"author":16,"featured_media":34695,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"featured_img_display":"Yes","footnotes":""},"categories":[16],"tags":[467,103,340,205,83,67,608,2965,285,165],"class_list":["post-34693","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-country-music-news","tag-acm-awards","tag-brothers-osborne","tag-chris-stapleton","tag-cole-swindell","tag-dolly-parton","tag-garth-brooks","tag-hardy","tag-lainey-wilson","tag-morgan-wallen","tag-old-dominion"],"publishpress_future_action":{"enabled":false,"date":"2026-04-11 04:11:08","action":"change-status","newStatus":"draft","terms":[],"taxonomy":"category","extraData":[]},"publishpress_future_workflow_manual_trigger":{"enabledWorkflows":[]},"react_link":"https:\/\/country929.com\/blogs\/country-music-news\/2023\/05\/chris-stapleton-lainey-wilson-win-big-at-acm-awards\/","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/briwebapp.net\/cfcofm\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/34693","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=34693"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"https:\/\/briwebapp.net\/cfcofm\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/34693\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":34700,"href":"https:\/\/briwebapp.net\/cfcofm\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/34693\/revisions\/34700"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/briwebapp.net\/cfcofm\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/34695"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/briwebapp.net\/cfcofm\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=34693"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/briwebapp.net\/cfcofm\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=34693"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/briwebapp.net\/cfcofm\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=34693"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}