There were a lot of country stars in attendance at the ACM Awards in Vegas on Sunday, May 17.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
But several country singers skipped the show, including…<\/p>\n\n\n\n
1.\u00a0\u00a0Megan Moroney<\/strong>.\u00a0 She was the most nominated artist of the night, so it was a surprise when she wasn’t there.\u00a0 But she posted a\u00a0message\u00a0saying she had to skip because she was the maid of honour at her best friend’s wedding.\u00a0<\/p>\n\n\n\n 2. Morgan Wallen<\/strong>. No surprise there. He rarely goes to award shows. <\/p>\n\n\n\n 3. Jason Aldean<\/strong>. He wasn’t nominated for anything, so why not relax at home? <\/p>\n\n\n\n 4.\u00a0\u00a0Luke Combs<\/strong>\u00a0and\u00a0Jelly Roll<\/strong>\u00a0were also no-shows.\u00a0 They were both nominated for Entertainer of the Year, but it seems they had better things to do.\u00a0 <\/p>\n\n\n\n Meanwhile, Megan Moroney, Lainey Wilson, Chris Stapleton, and Zach Top had 27 nominations between them, and they were all shut out.\u00a0\u00a0<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"There were a lot of country stars in attendance at the ACM Awards in Vegas on Sunday, May 17. But several country singers skipped the show, including… 1.\u00a0\u00a0Megan Moroney.\u00a0 She was the most nominated artist of the night, so it was a surprise when she wasn’t there.\u00a0 But she posted a\u00a0message\u00a0saying she had to skip","protected":false},"author":16,"featured_media":46975,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"featured_img_display":"Yes","footnotes":""},"categories":[16],"tags":[467,340,109,3964,2965,101,4645,285,384,5566],"class_list":["post-49037","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-country-music-news","tag-acm-awards","tag-chris-stapleton","tag-jason-aldean","tag-jelly-roll","tag-lainey-wilson","tag-luke-combs","tag-megan-moroney","tag-morgan-wallen","tag-vegas","tag-zach-top"],"publishpress_future_action":{"enabled":false,"date":"2026-05-27 22:10:29","action":"change-status","newStatus":"draft","terms":[],"taxonomy":"category","extraData":[]},"publishpress_future_workflow_manual_trigger":{"enabledWorkflows":[]},"react_link":"https:\/\/country929.com\/blogs\/country-music-news\/2026\/05\/five-country-stars-that-skipped-the-acm-awards\/","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/briwebapp.net\/cfcofm\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/49037","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=49037"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/briwebapp.net\/cfcofm\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/49037\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":49039,"href":"https:\/\/briwebapp.net\/cfcofm\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/49037\/revisions\/49039"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/briwebapp.net\/cfcofm\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/46975"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/briwebapp.net\/cfcofm\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=49037"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/briwebapp.net\/cfcofm\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=49037"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/briwebapp.net\/cfcofm\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=49037"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}