{"id":30497,"date":"2024-11-14T08:30:18","date_gmt":"2024-11-14T13:30:18","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/briwebapp.net\/cjwffm\/?p=30497"},"modified":"2024-11-14T04:56:17","modified_gmt":"2024-11-14T09:56:17","slug":"george-strait-to-receive-cma-lifetime-achievement-award","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/briwebapp.net\/cjwffm\/blogs\/country-music-news\/2024\/11\/george-strait-to-receive-cma-lifetime-achievement-award\/","title":{"rendered":"George Strait To Receive CMA Lifetime Achievement Award"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>It was just announced that George Strait will receive the Willie Nelson Lifetime Achievement Award at the CMA Awards on Wednesday, November 20.<\/p>\n<p>Throughout George&#8217;s career, he&#8217;s had 17 CMA wins, 83 CMA nominations (the most ever), 60 #1 singles, and over 70 million albums sold.<\/p>\n<p>It&#8217;s safe to say that George is deserving of a Lifetime Achievement award.<\/p>\n<p>The award was first given out in 2012 to Willie Nelson, which is why it&#8217;s named after him, and the award is NOT given out every year.<\/p>\n<p>Here are the country icons that have received this honour:<\/p>\n<p>1. Willie Nelson . . . 2012<\/p>\n<p>2. Kenny Rogers . . . 2013<\/p>\n<p>3. Johnny Cash . . . 2015<\/p>\n<p>4. Dolly Parton . . . 2016<\/p>\n<p>5. Kris Kristofferson . . . 2019<\/p>\n<p>6. Charley Pride . . . 2020<\/p>\n<p>7. Loretta Lynn . . . 2021<\/p>\n<p>8. Alan Jackson . . . 2022<\/p>\n<iframe loading=\"lazy\" class=\"insta-iframe\" src=\"https:\/\/www.instagram.com\/p\/DCR9YX0p5HO\/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","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"George Strait will receive the Willie Nelson Lifetime Achievement Award at the CMA Awards on Wednesday, November 20.","protected":false},"author":16,"featured_media":29531,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"featured_img_display":"Yes","footnotes":""},"categories":[14],"tags":[1044,5830,198,661,5831],"class_list":["post-30497","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-country-music-news","tag-cma-awards","tag-cma-lifetime-achievement-award","tag-george-strait","tag-willie-nelson","tag-willie-nelson-lifetime-achievement-award"],"publishpress_future_action":{"enabled":false,"date":"2026-04-14 04:10:28","action":"change-status","newStatus":"draft","terms":[],"taxonomy":"category","extraData":[]},"publishpress_future_workflow_manual_trigger":{"enabledWorkflows":[]},"react_link":"https:\/\/country959.com\/blogs\/country-music-news\/2024\/11\/george-strait-to-receive-cma-lifetime-achievement-award\/","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/briwebapp.net\/cjwffm\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/30497","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=30497"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/briwebapp.net\/cjwffm\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/30497\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/briwebapp.net\/cjwffm\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/29531"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/briwebapp.net\/cjwffm\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=30497"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/briwebapp.net\/cjwffm\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=30497"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/briwebapp.net\/cjwffm\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=30497"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}