{"id":30254,"date":"2024-11-06T07:14:52","date_gmt":"2024-11-06T12:14:52","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/briwebapp.net\/chokfm\/?p=30254"},"modified":"2024-11-06T04:16:49","modified_gmt":"2024-11-06T09:16:49","slug":"how-zach-top-found-out-about-his-cma-nomination","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/briwebapp.net\/chokfm\/blogs\/country-music-news\/2024\/11\/how-zach-top-found-out-about-his-cma-nomination\/","title":{"rendered":"How Zach Top Found Out About His CMA Nomination"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong>Zach Top<\/strong>\u00a0is, quote, &#8220;Not on socials&#8221; . . . so it makes sense if he misses the news on occasion.\u00a0 But it must be strange to find out that you were nominated for a CMA Award because you got a &#8220;congratulations&#8221; text from a friend.<\/p>\n<p>No big deal, Zach is just up for New Artist of the Year against some of the most popular artists out there right now, like:\u00a0\u00a0<strong>Megan Moroney<\/strong>\u00a0. . .\u00a0<strong>Shaboozey<\/strong>\u00a0. . .\u00a0<strong>Nate Smith<\/strong>\u00a0. . .<\/p>\n<p><strong>Mitchell Tenpenny<\/strong>\u00a0. . . and\u00a0<strong>Bailey Zimmerman<\/strong>.<\/p>\n<p>Here&#8217;s what Zach had to say, &#8220;Somebody just texted me, &#8216;congratulations.&#8217;\u00a0 So I texted back and was like, &#8216;Thanks.\u00a0 For what?&#8217;\u00a0 And then they sent me the screenshot from Instagram saying I was nominated.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>And maybe it&#8217;s the craziness of life on the road that gets in the way, too.\u00a0 He also mentioned how hard it is to be a travelling musician. \u00a0Zach said, &#8220;I never wake up in the same town.\u00a0 I wake up somewhere else.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;I&#8217;ve got to figure out where I am the next morning. \u00a0So, there&#8217;s a lot of changes for sure, and I&#8217;m grateful for a lot of them. \u00a0There&#8217;s a lot of them that I&#8217;d rather live without, you know . . . kind of makes me miss the way I grew up.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>(<a href=\"https:\/\/www.foxnews.com\/entertainment\/country-star-zach-feels-lifes-too-fast-after-ditching-farm-life-country-music-career\"><strong>Fox News<\/strong><\/a>\u00a0\/\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/americansongwriter.com\/lifes-way-to-fast-rising-country-star-zach-top-opens-up-about-the-downside-of-fame\/\"><strong>American Songwriter<\/strong><\/a>)<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Check your texts","protected":false},"author":15,"featured_media":29614,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"featured_img_display":"Yes","footnotes":""},"categories":[3337],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-30254","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-country-music-news"],"publishpress_future_action":{"enabled":false,"date":"2026-04-15 13:53:28","action":"change-status","newStatus":"draft","terms":[],"taxonomy":"category","extraData":[]},"publishpress_future_workflow_manual_trigger":{"enabledWorkflows":[]},"react_link":"https:\/\/chok.com\/blogs\/country-music-news\/2024\/11\/how-zach-top-found-out-about-his-cma-nomination\/","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/briwebapp.net\/chokfm\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/30254","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\/15"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/briwebapp.net\/chokfm\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=30254"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/briwebapp.net\/chokfm\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/30254\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/briwebapp.net\/chokfm\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/29614"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/briwebapp.net\/chokfm\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=30254"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/briwebapp.net\/chokfm\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=30254"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/briwebapp.net\/chokfm\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=30254"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}