{"id":25705,"date":"2023-09-29T05:55:43","date_gmt":"2023-09-29T09:55:43","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/briwebapp.net\/chokfm\/?p=25705"},"modified":"2023-09-29T05:33:08","modified_gmt":"2023-09-29T09:33:08","slug":"peoples-choice-country-awards-handed-out-in-nashville","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/briwebapp.net\/chokfm\/blogs\/country-music-news\/2023\/09\/peoples-choice-country-awards-handed-out-in-nashville\/","title":{"rendered":"People&#8217;s Choice Country Awards Handed Out In Nashville"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The inaugural &#8220;People&#8217;s Choice Country Awards&#8221; went down last night in Nashville.<\/p>\n<p>Morgan Wallen won the night&#8217;s biggest award, People&#8217;s Artist of 2023, but he wasn&#8217;t there to accept it.<\/p>\n<p>Neither was Jelly Roll. He was performing in Cincinnati and said his thank you via satellite after winning Male Artist.<\/p>\n<p>Also not there? Carrie Underwood, Miranda Lambert, Jason Aldean, and Keith Urban to name a few.<\/p>\n<p>Lainey Wilson took home three awards, including Female Artist of 2023.<\/p>\n<p>Blake Shelton won Social Country Star of 2023, while\u00a0Wynonna was given the County Champion Award, and she treated the crowd to a medley of hits.<\/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\/aqzV2_IJBkc\" frameborder=\"0\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe><\/div>\n<p>The night&#8217;s best moment was Toby Keith&#8217;s triumphant return after beating stomach cancer.<\/p>\n<p>Blake presented him with the Country Music Icon Award, and a very thin Toby joked, &#8220;I bet you never thought you&#8217;d see me in skinny jeans.&#8221;<\/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\/lHt_HX4Mb3k\" frameborder=\"0\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe><\/div>\n<p><strong>The 2023 People&#8217;s Choice Country Award Winners<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>The People&#8217;s Artist of 2023: Morgan Wallen<\/p>\n<p>Female Artist of 2023: Lainey Wilson<\/p>\n<p>Male Artist of 2023: Jelly Roll<\/p>\n<p>The Group \/ Duo of 2023: Dan + Shay<\/p>\n<p>The New Artist of 2023: Jelly Roll<\/p>\n<p>The Social Country Star of 2023: Blake Shelton<\/p>\n<p>The Song of 2023: &#8220;Need a Favor&#8221;, Jelly Roll<\/p>\n<p>The Collaboration Song of 2023: &#8220;Save Me&#8221;, Jelly Roll with Lainey Wilson<\/p>\n<p>The Album of 2023: &#8220;One Thing at a Time&#8221;, Morgan Wallen<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"The inaugural &#8220;People&#8217;s Choice Country Awards&#8221; went down last night in Nashville.","protected":false},"author":16,"featured_media":24647,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"featured_img_display":"Yes","footnotes":""},"categories":[3337],"tags":[956,6818,5520,3845,2334,7896,4179],"class_list":["post-25705","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-country-music-news","tag-blake-shelton","tag-jelly-roll","tag-lainey-wilson","tag-morgan-wallen","tag-nashville","tag-peoples-choice-country-awards","tag-toby-keith"],"publishpress_future_action":{"enabled":false,"date":"2026-04-15 16:18:31","action":"change-status","newStatus":"draft","terms":[],"taxonomy":"category","extraData":[]},"publishpress_future_workflow_manual_trigger":{"enabledWorkflows":[]},"react_link":"https:\/\/chok.com\/blogs\/country-music-news\/2023\/09\/peoples-choice-country-awards-handed-out-in-nashville\/","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/briwebapp.net\/chokfm\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/25705","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=25705"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/briwebapp.net\/chokfm\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/25705\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/briwebapp.net\/chokfm\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/24647"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/briwebapp.net\/chokfm\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=25705"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/briwebapp.net\/chokfm\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=25705"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/briwebapp.net\/chokfm\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=25705"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}