The Country Music Association announced nominees for the 2021 CMA Awards on Thursday, September 9th.<\/p>\n
Eric Church and Chris Stapleton lead the way with five nominations each, while Gabby Barrett has four nominations, and Luke Combs, Brothers Osborne, Kane Brown, Miranda Lambert, Ashley McBryde, Maren Morris, and Chris Young have three nominations each.<\/p>\n
Rather than sharing the news on TV as they have in recent years, the full list of nominees was posted to the CMA Awards website.<\/p>\n
The CMA Awards generally take place in Nashville in November, and this year on November 10th.<\/p>\n
A host or co-hosts, too, have yet to be announced.<\/p>\n
2021 CMA Awards Nominees<\/strong><\/p>\n Entertainer of the Year<\/em> Female Vocalist of the Year<\/em> Male Vocalist of the Year<\/em> Vocal Group of the Year<\/em> Vocal Duo of the Year<\/em> New Artist of the Year<\/em> Album of the Year (Awarded to Artist(s) and Producer(s))<\/em> Song of the Year (Awarded to Songwriter(s))<\/em> Single of the Year (Awarded to Artist(s), Producer(s) and Mix Engineer(s))<\/em> Musical Event of the Year (Awarded to Artists and Producer(s))<\/em> Music Video of the Year (Awarded to Artist(s) and Director(s))<\/em>
\nEric Church
\nLuke Combs
\nMiranda Lambert
\nChris Stapleton
\nCarrie Underwood<\/p>\n
\n\u2022 Gabby Barrett
\n\u2022 Miranda Lambert
\n\u2022 Ashley McBryde
\n\u2022 Maren Morris
\n\u2022 Carly Pearce<\/p>\n
\n\u2022 Dierks Bentley
\n\u2022 Eric Church
\n\u2022 Luke Combs
\n\u2022 Thomas Rhett
\n\u2022 Chris Stapleton<\/p>\n
\n\u2022 Lady A
\n\u2022 Little Big Town
\n\u2022 Midland
\n\u2022 Old Dominion
\n\u2022 Zac Brown Band<\/p>\n
\n\u2022 Brooks & Dunn
\n\u2022 Brothers Osborne
\n\u2022 Dan + Shay
\n\u2022 Florida Georgia Line
\n\u2022 Maddie & Tae<\/p>\n
\n\u2022 Jimmie Allen
\n\u2022 Ingrid Andress
\n\u2022 Gabby Barrett
\n\u2022 Mickey Guyton
\n\u2022 HARDY<\/p>\n
\n\u2022 29\u202f\u2013\u202fCarly Pearce
\nProducers:\u202fShane McAnally, Josh\u202fOsborne\u202fand\u202fJimmy Robbins
\nMix Engineer: Ryan Gore
\n\u2022 Dangerous: The Double Album\u202f\u2013\u202fMorgan Wallen
\nProducers:\u202fDave Cohen, Matt\u202fDragstrem, Jacob Durrett, Charlie Handsome\u202fand\u202fJoey Moi
\nMix Engineer: Joey Moi
\n\u2022 Heart \u2013\u202fEric Church
\nProducer:\u202fJay Joyce
\nMix Engineers: Jason Hall, Jay Joyce
\n\u2022 Skeletons \u2013 Brothers Osborne
\nProducer: Jay Joyce
\nMix Engineers: Jason Hall, Jay Joyce
\n\u2022 Starting Over\u202f\u2013\u202fChris Stapleton
\nProducers: Dave Cobb, Chris Stapleton
\nMix Engineer: Vance Powell<\/p>\n
\n\u2022 \u201cForever After All\u201d
\nSongwriters:\u202fLuke Combs, Drew Parker, Robert Williford
\n\u2022 \u201cThe\u202fGood Ones\u201d
\nSongwriters:\u202fGabby Barrett, Zach Kale, Emily Landis, Jim McCormick
\n\u2022 \u201cHell Of A View\u201d
\nSongwriters:\u202fCasey Beathard, Eric Church, Monty Criswell
\n\u2022 \u201cOne Night Standards\u201d
\nSongwriters:\u202fNicolette Hayford, Shane McAnally, Ashley McBryde
\n\u2022 \u201cStarting Over\u201d
\nSongwriters:\u202fMike Henderson, Chris Stapleton<\/p>\n
\n\u2022 \u201cFamous Friends\u201d\u202f\u2013\u202fChris Young with Kane Brown
\nProducers: Corey Crowder, Chris Young
\nMix Engineer:\u202fSean Moffitt
\n\u2022 \u201cThe Good Ones\u201d\u202f\u2013\u202fGabby Barrett
\nProducers:\u202fRoss Copperman, Zach Kale
\nMix Engineers:\u202fChris Galland, Manny Marroquin
\n\u2022 \u201cHell Of A View\u201d\u202f\u2013\u202fEric Church
\nProducer:\u202fJay Joyce
\nMix Engineers: Jason Hall, Jay Joyce
\n\u2022 \u201cOne Night Standards\u201d\u202f\u2013\u202fAshley McBryde
\nProducer:\u202fJay Joyce
\nMix Engineers:\u202fJason Hall, Jay Joyce
\n\u2022 \u201cStarting Over\u201d\u202f\u2013\u202fChris Stapleton
\nProducers:\u202fDave Cobb, Chris Stapleton
\nMix Engineer:\u202fVance Powell<\/p>\n
\n\u2022 \u201cBuy Dirt\u201d\u202f\u2013\u202fJordan Davis and Luke Bryan
\nProducer: Paul DiGiovanni
\n\u2022 \u201cChasing After You\u201d \u2013 Ryan Hurd with Maren Morris
\nProducers: Aaron Eshuis, Teddy Reimer
\n\u2022 \u201cDrunk (And I Don\u2019t Wanna Go Home)\u201d\u202f\u2013\u202fElle King & Miranda Lambert
\nProducer:\u202fMartin Johnson
\n\u2022 \u201cFamous Friends\u201d\u202f\u2013\u202fChris Young with Kane Brown
\nProducers: Corey Crowder, Chris Young
\n\u2022 \u201chalf of my hometown\u201d\u202f\u2013\u202fKelsea Ballerini (featuring Kenny Chesney)
\nProducers:\u202fKelsea Ballerini, Ross Copperman, Jimmy Robbins<\/p>\n
\n\u2022 \u201cChasing After You\u201d\u202f\u2013\u202fRyan Hurd with Maren Morris
\nDirector:\u202fTK McKamy
\n\u2022 \u201cFamous Friends\u201d\u202f\u2013\u202fChris Young with Kane Brown
\nDirector:\u202fPeter Zavadil
\n\u2022 \u201cGone\u201d\u202f\u2013\u202fDierks Bentley
\nDirectors:\u202fWes Edwards, Travis Nicholson, Ed Pryor, Running Bear, Sam Siske
\n\u2022 \u201chalf of my hometown\u201d\u202f\u2013\u202fKelsea Ballerini (featuring Kenny Chesney)
\nDirector:\u202fPatrick Tracy
\n\u2022 \u201cYounger Me\u201d\u202f\u2013\u202fBrothers Osborne
\nDirector:\u202fReid Long<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"The Country Music Association announced nominees for the 2021 CMA Awards on Thursday, September 9th.","protected":false},"author":16,"featured_media":16123,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"featured_img_display":"Yes","footnotes":""},"categories":[3337],"tags":[3398,363,706,51,3612,3793,3411,357,3384,3097],"class_list":["post-16122","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-country-music-news","tag-ashley-mcbryde","tag-brothers-osborne","tag-chris-stapleton","tag-chris-young","tag-eric-church","tag-gabby-barrett","tag-kane-brown","tag-luke-combs","tag-maren-morris","tag-miranda-lambert"],"publishpress_future_action":{"enabled":false,"date":"2026-04-15 15:25:49","action":"change-status","newStatus":"draft","terms":[],"taxonomy":"category","extraData":[]},"publishpress_future_workflow_manual_trigger":{"enabledWorkflows":[]},"react_link":"https:\/\/chok.com\/blogs\/country-music-news\/2021\/09\/cma-awards-nominees-annouced\/","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/briwebapp.net\/chokfm\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/16122","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/briwebapp.net\/chokfm\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/briwebapp.net\/chokfm\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/briwebapp.net\/chokfm\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/16"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/briwebapp.net\/chokfm\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=16122"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/briwebapp.net\/chokfm\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/16122\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":16135,"href":"https:\/\/briwebapp.net\/chokfm\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/16122\/revisions\/16135"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/briwebapp.net\/chokfm\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/16123"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/briwebapp.net\/chokfm\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=16122"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/briwebapp.net\/chokfm\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=16122"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/briwebapp.net\/chokfm\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=16122"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}