Luke Combs, Megan Moroney, Morgan Wallen Lead A...

Luke Combs leads the nominees for the 2024 Academy of Country Music Awards with eight nods, followed by Megan Moroney and Morgan Wallen, who are tied with six each

Published Time: 09.04.2024 - 17:31:30 Modified Time: 09.04.2024 - 17:31:30

Luke Combs leads the nominees for the 2024 Academy of Country Music Awards with eight nods, followed by Megan Moroney and Morgan Wallen, who are tied with six each. Following behind with five nominations apiece are Lainey Wilson, Cody Johnson and Chris Stapleton.

Although the results aren’t a surprise for most of the multiply nominated artists, they provide a particularly big look for Moroney, a critical favorite who is still promoting her debut album, which produced a No. 1 single in “Tennessee Orange.”

The ACMs are entering their third year of being streamed exclusively on Prime Video, after decades of previously being seen on one of the big three broadcast networks. For the second year in a row, the awards will be streamed live from from Ford Center at the Star in Frisco, Texas, with a date set for May 16 at 8 p.m. ET/5 PT.

Earlier this week, Jelly Roll was the big winner at the CMT Music Awards, sweeping all three categories he was in, including music video of the year. The newly minted superstar doesn’t have quite as outsize a presence in the just-announced ACM nominations, but he does have four, which ties him with Jordan Davis.

Kelsea Ballerini, who just hosted the CMT Awards for the fourth and final time, has three nominations for the ACMs, tying her with Zach Bryan with that number.

One of the nominations Jelly Roll can claim is the top one, entertainer of the year. There, he’ll be up against Combs, Johnson, Stapleton, Wallen, Wilson and Kane Brown.

The female artist of the year category puts Moroney and Wilson up against Kelsea Ballerini, Ashley McBryde and Kacey Musgraves.

The male artist category includes five of the previously mentioned names: Combs, Johnson, Stapleton, Wallen and Jelly Roll.

Combs’ leading eight nominations come for Entertainer of the Year; Male Artist of the Year; Album of the Year (Artist & Producer nominations); Single of the Year (Artist & Producer nominations); Song of the Year; Music Event of the Year. (Combs is doubly nominated for the album category because the ACM, pretty much alone among awards orgs, counts twice artists who double as songwriters or producers on an album or track.)

The 59th annual show is being produced by Dick Clark Productions, with Raj Kapoor as executive producer and showrunner, Patrick Menton as co-executive producer, Damon Whiteside as executive producer for the Academy of Country Music, Barry Adelman as executive producer for DCP and John Saade as consulting producer for Amazon MGM Studios.

A complete list of nominations:

ENTERTAINER OF THE YEAR

FEMALE ARTIST OF THE YEAR

MALE ARTIST OF THE YEAR

DUO OF THE YEAR

GROUP OF THE YEAR

NEW FEMALE ARTIST OF THE YEAR

NEW MALE ARTIST OF THE YEAR

NEW DUO OR GROUP OF THE YEAR

ALBUM OF THE YEARAwarded to Artist(s)/Producer(s)/Record Company–Label(s)

Producer: Chip Matthews, Jonathan Singleton, Luke Combs

Record Company-Label: River House Artists / Columbia Nashville

Producer: Chris Stapleton, Dave Cobb, Morgane Stapleton

Record Company-Label: Mercury Nashville

Producers: Trent Willmon

Record Company-Label: CoJo Music LLC / Warner Music Nashville LLC

Producers: Joey Moi, Cameron Montgomery, Char -

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Record Company-Label: Big Loud Records / Republic Records / Mercury Records

Producers: Kelsea Ballerini, Alysa Vanderheym

Record Company-Label: Black River Entertainment

SINGLE OF THE YEARAwarded to Artist(s)/Producer(s)/Record Company–Label(s)

Producer: Jon Randall

Record Company-Label: MCA Nashville

Producers: Luke Combs, Chip Matthews, Jonathan Singleton

Record Company-Label: River House Artists / Columbia Nashville

Producer: Joey Moi, Charlie Handsome

Record Company-Label: Big Loud Records / Republic Records / Mercury Records

Producer: Austin Nivarel

Record Company-Label: Stoney Creek Records / BMG Nashville

Producer: Paul DiGiovanni

Record Company-Label: MCA Nashville

SONG OF THE YEARAwarded to Songwriter(s)/Publisher(s)/Artist(s)

Songwriters: Tracy Chapman

Publishers: Purple Rabbit

Songwriters: Dallas Wilson, Lainey Wilson, Trannie Anderson

Publishers: Sony / ATV Countryside; Songs of Riser House; Songs of Wild Cat Well Music

Songwriters: Chase McGill, Greylan James, Jordan Davis, Josh Osborne

Publishers: Family Farm Songs; Hold On Can I Get A Number 1 Music; Songs of Universal Inc.

Songwriters: Benjy Davis, Kat Higgins, Ryan Larkins

Publishers: Big Music Machine; BMG Platinum Songs US; Nashblonde Music; Pompano Run Music; Songs for Ellie May; Sony / ATV Tree Publishing; Warner-Tamerlane Publishing Group; Well That Was Awkward Music

Songwriters: Ben Williams, David Fanning, Megan Moroney, Paul Jenkins

Publishers: 33 Creative; Bone Bone Creative; Sony / ATV Tree Publishing

MUSIC EVENT OF THE YEARAwarded to Artist(s)/Producer(s)/Record Company–Label(s)

Producers: Brad Tursi, Geoff Sprung, Matthew Ramsey, Trevor Rosen, Whit Sellers, Ross Copperman, Kristian Bush

Record Company-Label: Three Up Three Down, LLC / Columbia Nashville

Producer: Dann Huff

Record Company-Label: BMLG Records

Producer: Zach Bryan

Record Company-Label: Belting Bronco Records / Warner Records, Inc

Producer: Joey Moi

Record Company-Label: Big Loud Records / Mercury Records / Republic Records

Producers: Zach Crowell, David Ray Stevens