The Academy of Country Music Awards announced the nominees today and Chris Stapleton and Dan + Shay lead with 6 nominations each.<\/p>\n
The Awards will be at the MGM Grand Garden Arena in Las Vegas on Sunday, April 7. The ceremony will begin at 8PM ET on CBS. Reba McEntire will host the\u00a0 show.<\/p>\n
The show is<\/p>\n
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Male Artist of the Year<\/strong><\/p>\n Dierks Bentley<\/p>\n Luke Combs<\/p>\n Thomas Rhett<\/p>\n Chris Stapleton<\/p>\n Keith Urban<\/p>\n <\/p>\n Female Artist of the Year<\/strong><\/p>\n Miranda Lambert<\/p>\n Ashley McBryde<\/p>\n Maren Morris<\/p>\n Kacey Musgraves<\/p>\n Carrie Underwood<\/p>\n Group of the Year<\/strong><\/p>\n Lady Antebellum<\/p>\n Lanco<\/p>\n Little Big Town<\/p>\n Midland<\/p>\n Old Dominion<\/p>\n Duo of the Yea<\/strong>r<\/p>\n Brothers Osborne<\/p>\n Dan + Shay<\/p>\n Florida Georgia Line<\/p>\n LoCash<\/p>\n Maddie & Tae<\/p>\n New Female Artist of the Year<\/strong><\/p>\n Danielle Bradbury<\/p>\n Lindsay Ell<\/p>\n Ashley McBryde<\/p>\n Carly Pearce<\/p>\n New Male Artist of the Year<\/strong><\/p>\n Jimmie Allen<\/p>\n Luke Combs<\/p>\n Jordan Davis<\/p>\n Michael Ray<\/p>\n Mitchell Tenpenny<\/p>\n New Duo or Group of the Year<\/strong><\/p>\n High Valley<\/p>\n Lanco<\/p>\n Runaway June<\/p>\n Entertainer of the Year<\/p>\n Jason Aldean<\/p>\n Luke Bryan<\/p>\n Kenny Chesney<\/p>\n Chris Stapleton<\/p>\n Keith Urban<\/p>\n Album of the Year<\/strong><\/p>\n Dan + Shay – Dan + Shay<\/p>\n Desperate Man – Eric Church<\/p>\n From a Room: Volume 2 – Chris Stapleton<\/p>\n Golden Hour – Kacey Musgraves<\/p>\n The Mountain – Dierks Bentley<\/p>\n Single of the Year<\/strong><\/p>\n Down to the Honky Tonk – Jake Owen<\/p>\n Heaven – Kane Brown<\/p>\n Meant to Be – Florida Georgia Line & Bebe Rexha<\/p>\n Most People Are Good – Luke Bryan<\/p>\n Tequila – Dan + Shay<\/p>\n Video of the Year<\/strong><\/p>\n Babe – Sugarland ft. Taylor Swift<\/p>\n Burn Out – Midland<\/p>\n Burning Man – Dierks Bentley ft. Brothers Osborne<\/p>\n Drunk Girl – Chris Janson<\/p>\n Shoot Me Straight – Brothers Osborne<\/p>\n Tequila – Dan + Shay<\/p>\n Music Event of the Year<\/strong><\/p>\n Burning Man – Dierks Bentley ft. Brothers Osborne<\/p>\n Drowns the Whiskey – Jason Aldean & Miranda Lambert<\/p>\n Everything’s Gonna Be Alright – Kenney Chesney & David Lee Murphy<\/p>\n Keeping Score – Dan + Shay ft. Kelly Clarkson<\/p>\n Meant To Be – Florida Georgia Line & Bebe Rexha<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"The Academy of Country Music Awards announced the nominees today and Chris Stapleton and Dan + Shay lead with 6 nominations each. The Awards will be at the MGM Grand Garden Arena in Las Vegas on Sunday, April 7. The ceremony will begin at 8PM ET on CBS. Reba McEntire will host the\u00a0 show. The","protected":false},"author":51,"featured_media":1768,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"featured_img_display":"Yes","footnotes":""},"categories":[14],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1767","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-country-music-news"],"publishpress_future_action":{"enabled":false,"date":"2026-04-29 00:58:30","action":"change-status","newStatus":"draft","terms":[],"taxonomy":"category","extraData":[]},"publishpress_future_workflow_manual_trigger":{"enabledWorkflows":[]},"react_link":"https:\/\/country959.com\/blogs\/country-music-news\/2019\/02\/2019-acm-nominees-are-out\/","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/briwebapp.net\/cjwffm\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1767","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\/51"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/briwebapp.net\/cjwffm\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1767"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/briwebapp.net\/cjwffm\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1767\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1769,"href":"https:\/\/briwebapp.net\/cjwffm\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1767\/revisions\/1769"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/briwebapp.net\/cjwffm\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/1768"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/briwebapp.net\/cjwffm\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1767"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/briwebapp.net\/cjwffm\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1767"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/briwebapp.net\/cjwffm\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1767"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}