The Country Music Association has announced nominees for The 57th Annual CMA Awards, and Lainey Wilson tops the list with nine nominations.<\/p>\n
She’s up for Entertainer of the Year,\u00a0\u00a0Female Vocalist of the Year, Single of the Year and Song of the Year for “Heart Like A Truck”, Single of the Year, Musical Event of the Year, and Music Video of the Year for “wait in the truck” with HARDY,\u00a0Album of the Year for Bell Bottom Country,\u00a0 and Musical Event of the Year “Save Me” with Jelly Roll.<\/p>\n
Other top nominees include first-time nominee Jelly Roll with five nominations, while Luke Combs and HARDY collect four nominations each.<\/p>\n
Jordan Davis, Ashley McBryde, Chris Stapleton, and Morgan Wallen secure three nominations apiece.<\/p>\n
Vying for the night’s highest honour, reigning CMA Entertainer of the Year Combs is nominated again in the category alongside Stapleton, Carrie Underwood, Wallen and Lainey Wilson.<\/p>\n
The 57th Annual CMA Awards, hosted by Luke Bryan and Peyton Manning, will broadcast LIVE from Nashville on Wednesday, November 8 at 8 p.m. on ABC.<\/p>\n
The full list of nominees are below…<\/p>\n
ENTERTAINER OF THE YEAR<\/strong><\/p>\n Luke Combs SINGLE OF THE YEAR<\/strong> – award goes to Artist(s), Producer(s) and Mix Engineer(s)<\/p>\n \u201cFast Car\u201d \u2013 Luke Combs ALBUM OF THE YEAR<\/strong> – award goes to Artist, Producer(s) and Mix Engineer(s)<\/p>\n Ashley McBryde Presents: Lindeville \u2013 Ashley McBryde<\/p>\n Bell Bottom Country \u2013 Lainey Wilson SONG OF THE YEAR<\/strong> – award goes to Songwriter(s)<\/p>\n \u201cFast Car\u201d –\u00a0Songwriter: Tracy Chapman FEMALE VOCALIST OF THE YEAR<\/strong><\/p>\n Kelsea Ballerini MALE VOCALIST OF THE YEAR<\/strong><\/p>\n Luke Combs VOCAL GROUP OF THE YEAR<\/strong><\/p>\n Lady A VOCAL DUO OF THE YEAR<\/strong><\/p>\n Brooks & Dunn MUSICAL EVENT OF THE YEAR <\/strong>– award goes to Artists and Producer(s)<\/p>\n \u201cSave Me\u201d \u2013 Jelly Roll (with Lainey Wilson) MUSIC VIDEO OF THE YEAR<\/strong> – award goes to Artist(s) and Director(s)<\/p>\n \u201cLight On In The Kitchen\u201d \u2013 Ashley McBryde NEW ARTIST OF THE YEAR<\/strong><\/p>\n Zach Bryan
\nChris Stapleton
\nCarrie Underwood
\nMorgan Wallen
\nLainey Wilson<\/p>\n
\n\u201cHeart Like A Truck\u201d \u2013 Lainey Wilson
\n\u201cNeed A Favor\u201d \u2013 Jelly Roll
\n\u201cNext Thing You Know\u201d \u2013 Jordan Davis
\n\u201cwait in the truck\u201d \u2013 HARDY (feat. Lainey Wilson)<\/p>\n
\nGettin\u2019 Old \u2013 Luke Combs
\nOne Thing At A Time \u2013 Morgan Wallen
\nRolling Up the Welcome Mat \u2013 Kelsea Ballerini<\/p>\n
\n\u201cHeart Like A Truck\u201d –\u00a0Songwriters: Trannie Anderson, Dallas Wilson, Lainey Wilson
\n\u201cNext Thing You Know\u201d –\u00a0Songwriters: Jordan Davis, Greylan James, Chase McGill, Josh Osborne
\n\u201cTennessee Orange\u201d –\u00a0Songwriters: David Fanning, Paul Jenkins, Megan Moroney, Ben Williams
\n\u201cwait in the truck\u201d –\u00a0Songwriters: Renee Blair, Michael Hardy, Hunter Phelps, Jordan Schmidt<\/p>\n
\nMiranda Lambert
\nAshley McBryde
\nCarly Pearce
\nLainey Wilson<\/p>\n
\nJelly Roll
\nCody Johnson
\nChris Stapleton
\nMorgan Wallen<\/p>\n
\nLittle Big Town
\nMidland
\nOld Dominion
\nZac Brown Band<\/p>\n
\nBrothers Osborne
\nDan + Shay
\nMaddie & Tae
\nThe War And Treaty<\/p>\n
\n\u201cShe Had Me At Heads Carolina (Remix)\u201d \u2013 Cole Swindell & Jo Dee Messina
\n\u201cThank God\u201d \u2013 Kane Brown (with Katelyn Brown)
\n\u201cwait in the truck\u201d \u2013 HARDY (feat. Lainey Wilson)
\n\u201cWe Don\u2019t Fight Anymore\u201d \u2013 Carly Pearce (featuring Chris Stapleton)<\/p>\n
\n\u201cMemory Lane\u201d \u2013 Old Dominion
\n\u201cNeed A Favor\u201d \u2013 Jelly Roll
\n\u201cNext Thing You Know\u201d \u2013 Jordan Davis
\n\u201cwait in the truck\u201d \u2013 HARDY (feat. Lainey Wilson)<\/p>\n
\nJelly Roll
\nParker McCollum
\nMegan Moroney
\nHailey Whitters<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"The Country Music Association has announced nominees for The 57th Annual CMA Awards, and Lainey Wilson tops the list with nine nominations.","protected":false},"author":16,"featured_media":25136,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"featured_img_display":"Yes","footnotes":""},"categories":[14],"tags":[45,268,1044,502,4444,3995,2991,34,78,171,1300,4980,4443],"class_list":["post-26178","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-country-music-news","tag-carrie-underwood","tag-chris-stapleton","tag-cma-awards","tag-entertainer-of-the-year","tag-heart-like-a-truck","tag-jelly-roll","tag-lainey-wilson","tag-luke-bryan","tag-luke-combs","tag-morgan-wallen","tag-peyton-manning","tag-save-me","tag-wait-in-the-truck"],"publishpress_future_action":{"enabled":false,"date":"2026-04-18 05:54:55","action":"change-status","newStatus":"draft","terms":[],"taxonomy":"category","extraData":[]},"publishpress_future_workflow_manual_trigger":{"enabledWorkflows":[]},"react_link":"https:\/\/country959.com\/blogs\/country-music-news\/2023\/09\/nominees-announced-for-cma-awards\/","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/briwebapp.net\/cjwffm\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/26178","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=26178"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/briwebapp.net\/cjwffm\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/26178\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":26179,"href":"https:\/\/briwebapp.net\/cjwffm\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/26178\/revisions\/26179"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/briwebapp.net\/cjwffm\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/25136"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/briwebapp.net\/cjwffm\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=26178"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/briwebapp.net\/cjwffm\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=26178"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/briwebapp.net\/cjwffm\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=26178"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}