{"id":2606,"date":"2019-04-08T04:29:02","date_gmt":"2019-04-08T08:29:02","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/briwebapp.net\/cjwffm\/uncategorized\/2019\/04\/keith-urban-wins-entertainer-of-the-year-at-acm-awards\/"},"modified":"2019-04-08T05:32:13","modified_gmt":"2019-04-08T09:32:13","slug":"keith-urban-wins-entertainer-of-the-year-at-acm-awards","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/briwebapp.net\/cjwffm\/blogs\/country-music-news\/2019\/04\/keith-urban-wins-entertainer-of-the-year-at-acm-awards\/","title":{"rendered":"Keith Urban Wins Entertainer Of The Year At ACM Awards"},"content":{"rendered":"<div class=\"video-shortcode embed-container\"><iframe loading=\"lazy\" title=\"YouTube video player\" width=\"610\" height=\"355\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/JLZPaR4AuNE\" frameborder=\"0\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe><\/div>\n<p>In the most coveted award of the evening, Keith Urban won Entertainer of the Year at the 54th Annual Academy of Country Music Awards in Las Vegas on Sunday, April 7th.<\/p>\n<p>[twitter id=&#8221;1115100521696595969&#8243;]<\/p>\n<p>Kacey Musgraves was a big winner, picking up Female Vocalist and Album of the Year, while Thomas Rhett took home the trophy for Male Vocalist. Dan + Shay won the most awards, including Single, Song, and Duo of the Year.<\/p>\n<p>It was a big night for musical collaborations. The show started with a performance of \u201cCan\u2019t Hide Red\u201d by Jason Aldean and Florida Georgia Line. Another to note, included George Strait and Miranda Lambert with a duet of his 2001 hit, \u201cRun.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>The show marked Reba McEntire&#8217;s 16th time as host, an all-time record for any host.<\/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\/78T25JWA6m4\" frameborder=\"0\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe><\/div>\n<p><strong>WINNERS<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>Entertainer of the Year: <em>Keith Urban<\/em><br \/>\nFemale Vocalist of the Year: <em>Kacey Musgraves<\/em><br \/>\nMale Vocalist of the Year: <em>Thomas Rhett<\/em><br \/>\nSingle of the Year: <em>&#8220;Tequila\u201d Dan + Shay<\/em><br \/>\nVocal group of the Year: <em>Old Dominion<\/em><br \/>\nAlbum of the Year: <em>Kacey Musgraves Golden Hour<\/em><br \/>\nSong of the Year: <em>&#8220;Tequila\u201d performed by Dan + Shay. Songwriters Dan Smyers, Jordan Reynolds and Nicolle Galyon<\/em><br \/>\nNew female vocalist of the Year: <em>Ashley McBride<\/em><br \/>\nNew male vocalist of the Year: <em>Luke Combs<\/em><br \/>\nNew Duo or group of the year: <em>LANCO<\/em><br \/>\nDuo or group of the Year: <em>Dan + Shay<\/em><br \/>\nVideo of the Year: <em>Chris Janson \u201cDrunk Girl\u201d<\/em><br \/>\nMusic Event of the Year:<em> \u201cBurning Man\u201d Dierks Bentley featuring Brothers Osborne<\/em><\/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\/xAaydW_EwlE\" frameborder=\"0\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe><\/div>\n<p><strong>PERFORMANCES AND PRESENTATIONS<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>Jason Aldean kicked off the ACM Awards and was joined by Florida Georgia Line with a performance of \u201cCan\u2019t Hide Red.\u201d<br \/>\nThomas Rhett came out of his audience seat when introduced to sing \u201cLook What God Gave Her.\u201d<br \/>\nLady Antebellum announced the winners of Song of the Year &#8211; Dan + Shay\u2019s \u201cTequila.\u201d The songwriters accepted.<br \/>\nReba introduced Miranda Lambert to sing a medley of her hits including \u201cLove\u2019s Giving Up On Me,\u201d \u201cWhite Lier,\u201d and \u201cMama\u2019s Broken Heart.\u201d<br \/>\nLuke Bryan performed \u201cKnockin\u2019 Boots.\u201d<br \/>\nChris Stapleton, with only a 4-piece band that included his wife, performed \u201cSlow Simple Song.\u201d<br \/>\nClint Black and Jessie James Decker presented Single of the Year to Dan + Shay for \u201cTequila.\u201d<br \/>\nWith a single guitar and a spotlight, Ashley McBryde performed on a small round stage in the middle of the audience.<br \/>\nDuring Thomas Rhett&#8217;s acceptance speech for Male Vocalist, he pointed to his wife and said, \u201cYou are smokin\u2019 hot tonight.\u201d<br \/>\nBrothers Osborne joined Maren Morris, to do a version of \u201cAll My Favorite People,\u201d a song from her new album.<br \/>\nGeorge Strait, wearing a dark jacket, and black hat sang \u201cGod And Country Music.\u201d<br \/>\nCole Swindell introduced Luke Combs who sang \u201cBeautiful Crazy\u201d to an audience lit with cell phones.<br \/>\nDan + Shay and Kelly Clarkson performed their duet \u201cKeeping Score.\u201d<br \/>\nCarly Pearce and Michael Ray announced Duo of the Year\u2026Dan + Shay.<br \/>\nWith ballet dancers behind them, Little Big Town performed \u201cFor The Daughters.\u201d Kimberly Schlapman\u2019s daughter, Daisy (11) and Phillip Sweet\u2019s daughter Penelopi (11) danced as part of the performance.<br \/>\nBlake Shelton, with video screens behind him showing fire, smoke, and country side, performed \u201cGod\u2019s Country.\u201d<br \/>\nOld Dominion performed \u201cMake It Sweet.\u201d<br \/>\nLuke Combs, with a red solo cup in hand, sang lead with Ronnie Dunn and joined Brooks &amp; Dunn for \u201cBrand New Man.\u201d The new version is on the new Brooks &amp; Dunn album.<br \/>\nLittle Big Town introduced Keith Urban and his performance of \u201cBurden.\u201d He stood and sang the song without his guitar.<br \/>\nAshley McBryde and Eric Church teamed up to sing \u201cThe Snake.\u201d Images of large snakes appeared on screen.<br \/>\nWith a performance that started with Carrie Underwood singing pool side at the MGM Grand, she walked into the building through the audience, kissed her husband and onto the stage, all while singing \u201cSouthbound.\u201d<br \/>\nKane Brown sang \u201cI Just Want To Be Good As You.\u201d And then introduced multi-platinum artist, Khalid and performed their remix of \u201cSaturday Nights.\u201d<br \/>\nReba performed her new song, \u201cFreedom,\u201d it\u2019s on her new album, Stronger Than The Truth.<br \/>\nGeorge Strait announced Jason Aldean as the ACM Artist of the Decade. Jason followed with a performance of 3 songs including &#8220;Dirt Road Anthem.&#8221; He also sang \u201cA Little While\u201d with Kelly Clarkson.<br \/>\nChrissy Metz, star of the NBC series, This Is Us, and the upcoming movie Breakthrough, sang and was joined on stage by Lauren Alaina, Mickey Guyton, Maddie &amp; Tae and Carrie Underwood. All are featured on the film&#8217;s soundtrack.<br \/>\nMiranda Lambert and George Strait sang together on his 2001 hit,\u201cRun.\u201d<br \/>\nDierks Bentley and Brandi Carlile, sang his song \u201cTravelin\u2019 Light.\u201d<br \/>\nKeith Urban hugged presenters Reba, and even congratulated Ronnie Dunn and Kix Brooks on their new album before making his acceptance speech that was notably rushed for time.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"In the most coveted award of the evening, Keith Urban won Entertainer of the Year at the 54th Annual Academy of Country Music Awards in Las Vegas.","protected":false},"author":16,"featured_media":2607,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"featured_img_display":"No","footnotes":""},"categories":[14],"tags":[123,169,198,88,70,158,115],"class_list":["post-2606","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-country-music-news","tag-acm-awards","tag-dan-shay","tag-george-strait","tag-kacey-musgraves","tag-keith-urban","tag-old-dominion","tag-thomas-rhett"],"publishpress_future_action":{"enabled":false,"date":"2026-04-14 05:50:50","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\/04\/keith-urban-wins-entertainer-of-the-year-at-acm-awards\/","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/briwebapp.net\/cjwffm\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2606","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=2606"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/briwebapp.net\/cjwffm\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2606\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2609,"href":"https:\/\/briwebapp.net\/cjwffm\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2606\/revisions\/2609"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/briwebapp.net\/cjwffm\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/2607"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/briwebapp.net\/cjwffm\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2606"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/briwebapp.net\/cjwffm\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2606"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/briwebapp.net\/cjwffm\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2606"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}