{"id":17023,"date":"2021-11-11T05:16:21","date_gmt":"2021-11-11T10:16:21","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/briwebapp.net\/cjwffm\/uncategorized\/2021\/11\/luke-combs-wins-entertainer-chris-stapleton-takes-home-four-cma-awards\/"},"modified":"2021-11-17T07:36:46","modified_gmt":"2021-11-17T12:36:46","slug":"luke-combs-wins-entertainer-chris-stapleton-takes-home-four-cma-awards","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/briwebapp.net\/cjwffm\/blogs\/country-music-news\/2021\/11\/luke-combs-wins-entertainer-chris-stapleton-takes-home-four-cma-awards\/","title":{"rendered":"Luke Combs Wins Entertainer, Chris Stapleton Takes Home Four CMA Awards"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Luke Combs was awarded Entertainer of the Year, but the night belonged to Chris Stapleton who won four awards at the 55th Annual CMA Awards held at Nashville&#8217;s Bridgestone Arena.<\/p>\n<p>By the time Chris accepted Male Vocalist, he admitted he was running out of words and thanked his children. He also took home Album, Single, and Song of the Year for \u201cStarting Over.\u201d Chris also performed with Jennifer Hudson, singing an amazing rendition of &#8220;You Are My Sunshine.&#8221;<\/p>\n<iframe loading=\"lazy\" class=\"insta-iframe\" src=\"https:\/\/www.instagram.com\/p\/CWHwRyrDskv)\/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>After three-time Entertainer of the Year Alan Jackson announced Luke Combs as the winner, first thing Luke said was, \u201cAlan Jackson said my name, twice.\u201d Seemingly stunned that he won, he added, \u201cI don\u2019t deserve to win it, but I\u2019m sure as hell glad that I did.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>[twitter id=&#8221;1458664327821631488&#8243;]<\/p>\n<p>The show was packed with an array of star-studded performances.<\/p>\n<p>Miranda Lambert kicked off the show with a long medley of her songs.<\/p>\n<p>Carly Pearce and Ashley McBryde sang their new song, \u201cNever Wanted To Be That Girl.\u201d Later, when Carly was announced as Female Vocalist of the Year, she was so overwhelmed with emotion that Ashley helped her onto the stage and (adding humour) spoke for her at the podium.<\/p>\n<p>[twitter id=&#8221;1458664604394045440&#8243;]<\/p>\n<p>Just before singing, T.J. Osborne shared how, when he was younger, that he didn\u2019t think he could have a career in country music because of his sexuality. He said that just minutes after Brothers Osborne won Duo of the Year.<\/p>\n<p>[twitter id=&#8221;1458641628265164807&#8243;]<\/p>\n<p>Jimmie Allen won New Artist, and Old Dominion was awarded Best Vocal Group.<\/p>\n<p>[twitter id=&#8221;1458645615609532420&#8243;]<\/p>\n<p>Before the show, it was announced that Kenny Chesney and Kelsea Ballerini won for Musical Event and Music Video for \u201cHalf of My Hometown.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Although Luke Bryan was the solo host, he had several stars join him on stage. The running theme of the night was that he might need some help. Lionel Richie and Katy Perry even joined him twice for introductions.<\/p>\n<p>WINNERS<\/p>\n<p><em><strong>Entertainer of the year<\/strong><\/em><\/p>\n<p>Luke Combs<\/p>\n<p><em><strong>Single of the year<\/strong><\/em><\/p>\n<p>&#8220;Starting Over&#8221; \u2013 Chris Stapleton (Producers: Dave Cobb, Chris Stapleton; Mix Engineer: Vance Powell)<\/p>\n<p><em><strong>Album of the year<\/strong><\/em><\/p>\n<p>Starting Over \u2013 Chris Stapleton (Producers: Dave Cobb, Chris Stapleton; Mix Engineer: Vance Powell)<\/p>\n<p><em><strong>Song of the year<\/strong><\/em><\/p>\n<p>&#8220;Starting Over&#8221; \u2013 Songwriters: Mike Henderson, Chris Stapleton<\/p>\n<p><em><strong>Female vocalist of the year<\/strong><\/em><\/p>\n<p>Carly Pearce<\/p>\n<p><em><strong>Male vocalist of the year<\/strong><\/em><\/p>\n<p>Chris Stapleton<\/p>\n<p><em><strong>Vocal group of the year<\/strong><\/em><\/p>\n<p>Old Dominion<\/p>\n<p><em><strong>Vocal duo of the year<\/strong><\/em><\/p>\n<p>Brothers Osborne<\/p>\n<p><em><strong>Musical event of the year<\/strong><\/em><\/p>\n<p>&#8220;Half of my hometown&#8221; \u2013 Kelsea Ballerini (featuring Kenny Chesney),<\/p>\n<p><em><strong>Music video of the year<\/strong><\/em><\/p>\n<p>&#8220;Half of my hometown&#8221; \u2013 Kelsea Ballerini (featuring Kenny Chesney),<\/p>\n<p><em><strong>New artist of the year<\/strong><\/em><\/p>\n<p>Jimmie Allen<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Luke Combs was awarded Entertainer of the Year, but the night belonged to Chris Stapleton who won four awards at the 55th Annual CMA Awards held at Nashville&#8217;s Bridgestone Arena.","protected":false},"author":16,"featured_media":17105,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"featured_img_display":"Yes","footnotes":""},"categories":[14],"tags":[195,531,124,42,268,1044,265,34,78,162],"class_list":["post-17023","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-country-music-news","tag-alan-jackson","tag-ashley-mcbryde","tag-brothers-osborne","tag-carly-pearce","tag-chris-stapleton","tag-cma-awards","tag-jimmie-allen","tag-luke-bryan","tag-luke-combs","tag-miranda-lambert"],"publishpress_future_action":{"enabled":false,"date":"2026-04-11 13:01:49","action":"change-status","newStatus":"draft","terms":[],"taxonomy":"category","extraData":[]},"publishpress_future_workflow_manual_trigger":{"enabledWorkflows":[]},"react_link":"https:\/\/country959.com\/blogs\/country-music-news\/2021\/11\/luke-combs-wins-entertainer-chris-stapleton-takes-home-four-cma-awards\/","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/briwebapp.net\/cjwffm\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/17023","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/briwebapp.net\/cjwffm\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/briwebapp.net\/cjwffm\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/briwebapp.net\/cjwffm\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/16"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/briwebapp.net\/cjwffm\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=17023"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/briwebapp.net\/cjwffm\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/17023\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":17024,"href":"https:\/\/briwebapp.net\/cjwffm\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/17023\/revisions\/17024"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/briwebapp.net\/cjwffm\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/17105"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/briwebapp.net\/cjwffm\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=17023"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/briwebapp.net\/cjwffm\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=17023"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/briwebapp.net\/cjwffm\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=17023"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}