HARDY and Lainey Wilson lead the nominees for the 2023 Academy of Nation Music Awards.
HARDY is the highest contender with seven nominations, whereas Wilson is up for seven awards. Their collaboration, “wait within the trunk,” will compete for track of the yr, visible media of the yr and music occasion of the yr.
The ACM Awards, to be hosted by Dolly Parton and Garth Brooks, will air stay on Amazon’s Prime Video on Could 11 from the Ford Middle at The Star in Frisco, Texas.
HARDY can also be nominated for artist-songwriter of the yr and is a triple nominee for track of the yr: He’s nominated as a performer and co-writer of “wait within the truck” and as a co-writer of Morgan Wallen’s double platinum hit, “Sand In My Boots.” HARDY is a double nominee for musical occasion of the yr since he co-produced “wait within the truck,” a High 5 nation hit.
Wilson’s different nominations embrace feminine artist of the yr, album of the yr for Bell Backside Nation and single of the yr for “Coronary heart Like a Truck.”
Artists vying for the present’s high prize — entertainer of the yr — embrace Jason Aldean, Chris Stapleton, Luke Combs, Carrie Underwood, Morgan Wallen, Kane Brown and final yr’s winner, Miranda Lambert. This yr the award has prolonged its nominees from 5 to seven and marks Wallen and Brown’s first time competing for the massive prize.
Lambert, probably the most embellished artist in ACM historical past, scored 5 nominations together with album of the yr with Palomino and feminine artist of the yr. Within the latter class she and Wilson will compete with Kelsea Ballerini, Ashley McBryde and Carly Pearce.
For album of the yr, Lambert and Wilson’s tasks will battle McBryde’s Ashley McBryde Presents: Lindeville, Combs’ Growin’ Up and Jon Pardi’s Mr. Saturday Evening.
Combs, Brown and Cole Swindell additionally earned 5 nominations every. Male artist of the yr nominees embrace Combs, Brown, Stapleton, Wallen and Jordan Davis.
Brown and his spouse, Katelyn Brown, received the highest prize at this month’s CMT Music Awards with their candy duet “Thank God,” and the track is nominated for 3 ACMs: single of the yr, music occasion of the yr and visible media of the yr.
Different standout nominees embrace The Conflict And Treaty, who make historical past as the primary Black duo to obtain a nomination for duo of the yr, whereas Little Large City’s seventeenth nomination for group of the yr edges them near Alabama’s all-time document of 18 nominations.
