“Quick Automobile” continues to drive Luke Combs and Tracy Chapman to the highest — this time, on the 2024 Academy of Nation Music Awards.
Combs is the highest contender this yr with eight nominations, competing for entertainer of the yr in addition to single and music of the yr with “Quick Automobile.” He shares the latter nomination with Chapman, who wrote the music alone and had main success with it in 1988, 35 years earlier than Combs introduced new life to the monitor and made it a rustic hit.
Chapman gained in the identical class eventually yr’s Nation Music Affiliation Awards, changing into the primary Black particular person to take action. She and Combs earned reward for teaming up for a reside efficiency of the music at February’s Grammy Awards, the place Combs was nominated for his model of the music; Chapman gained two Grammys for her authentic model.
Combs might win his first ACM title for entertainer of the yr on the Might 16 occasion, which can stream reside on Prime Video from Ford Heart at The Star in Frisco, Texas. His competitors consists of final yr’s winner Chris Stapleton, Morgan Wallen, Jelly Roll, Lainey Wilson, Kane Brown and Cody Johnson. Combs’ different nominations embrace album of the yr for Gettin’ Previous, male artist of the yr and music occasion of the yr for “Completely different ‘Spherical Right here” with Riley Inexperienced.
Wallen’s historic run on the pop and nation charts helped him land behind Combs with six nominations. He’s up for album of the yr with One Factor at a Time, which spent 18 weeks at No. 1 on the all-genre Billboard 200 chart, and single of the yr for the Grammy-nominated “Final Night time,” which topped the all-genre Scorching 100 chart for 16 weeks. Wallen can be competing for male artist of the yr, artist-songwriter of the yr and music occasion of the yr with “Man Made A Bar” with Eric Church.
Breakthrough star Megan Moroney additionally scored six nominations — essentially the most for a feminine act. She is going to compete for feminine artist of the yr, music of the yr and visible media of the yr for “Tennessee Orange,” music occasion of the yr for “Can’t Break Up Now” with Previous Dominion and new feminine artist of the yr.
Stapleton, Wilson and Johnson earned 5 nominations every, whereas Jelly Roll and Jordan Davis picked up 4 nods.
The announcement of this yr’s ACM nominations got here in the identical week Beyoncé made historical past on the nation music charts with Cowboy Carter. That album and songs from it would qualify at subsequent yr’s ACM Awards since this yr’s eligibility interval was Jan. 1, 2023 via Dec. 31.
