Chris Young leads Academy of Country Music nominations

NASHVILLE, Tenn. – Nation star Chris Younger mixed his expertise as an artist and a producer to earn seven nominations on the Academy of Nation Music Awards, together with album of the 12 months and single of the 12 months.

The present’s co-hosts Jimmie Allen and Gabby Barrett introduced the nominations on Thursday. Allen and Barrett will share internet hosting duties with nation famous person Dolly Parton in the course of the present being livestreamed on Prime Video from Las Vegas on March 7.

Younger shares three of these nominations along with his collaborator Kane Brown for his or her hit tune “Well-known Buddies.”

Miranda Lambert earned 5 nominations, together with entertainer of the 12 months, and is now tied with Reba McEntire for her sixteenth feminine artist of the 12 months nomination. First-time nominee Walker Hayes additionally acquired 5 nominations, resulting from his viral Applebee’s themed tune “Fancy Like,” up for single of the 12 months.

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Chris Stapleton, a five-time nominee, is up for entertainer of the 12 months, alongside Lambert, Eric Church, Luke Combs and Carrie Underwood.

Album of the 12 months nominees embrace Carly Pearce, Thomas Rhett, Morgan Wallen, Younger, Lambert, Jack Ingram and Jon Randall.

Wallen is again as a four-time nominee after being faraway from final 12 months’s ACM poll after he was caught on digital camera utilizing a racial slur. Wallen earned nominations for album of the 12 months for “Harmful: The Double Album,” which was the most well-liked album throughout all genres final 12 months. He additionally earned nominations for male artist of the 12 months and tune of the 12 months.

Co-hosts Allen and Barrett additionally earned nominations for female and male artist of the 12 months, respectively.

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Pop star Taylor Swift additionally acquired a nomination — her first from the ACMs since 2018 and her thirty second nomination complete — for “I Wager You Suppose About Me (Taylor’s Model)” off her re-recorded model of “Crimson (Taylor’s Model).”