2023 Academy of Country Music Awards Nominations
general entertaining
Jason Aldean
Ken Brown
Luke Combs
Miranda Lambert
Chris Stapleton – WINNER
Carrie Underwood
Morgan Wallen
Artist of the Year
Kelsey Ballerini
Miranda Lambert
Ashley McBride
Carly Pierce
Lenny Wilson – WINNER
Best artist of the year
Ken Brown
Luke Combs
Jordan Davis
Chris Stapleton
Morgan Wallen – WINNER
general binary
Brooks and Dunn
Brothers Osborne – Winner
Dan + Shay
Maddy and Tai
War and Treaty
general group
Mrs. A
Little Big Town
Midland
Old Dominion – Winner
Zac Brown Band
New Artist of the Year
Priscilla block
Megan Moroney
Caitlin Smith
Morgan Wade
Helly Waiters – WINNER
Best New Male Artist of the Year
Zak Bryan – WINNER
Jackson Dean
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Dylan Scott
Nate Smith
Billy Zimmerman
album of the year
Ashley McBride Presents: Lindeville, Ashley McBride
Bell Bottom Country, Lainey Wilson – WINNER
Groen AB, Luke Combs
Mr. Saturday Knight, John Pardi
Palomino, Miranda Lambert
one of the year
“The heart is like a truck,” Lenny Wilson
“I never wanted to be that girl,” Carly Pierce and Ashley McBride
“She Was Mine in Heads Carolina,” Cole Swindell – WINNER
“Thank God,” Kane Brown with Caitlin Brown
“Til You Can’t,” Cody Johnson
Song of the year
“Sand In My Boots” From the writers: Ashley Gourley, Josh Osborne and Michael Hardy; Artist: Morgan Wallen
Mine Was in Heads Carolina Writers: Ashley Gurley, Cole Swindell, Jesse Frasor, Mark D. Sanders, Thomas Rhett and Tim Nichols; Artist: Swindell) – WINNER
“Til You Can’t” Writers: Ben Stennis, Matt Rogers; Artist: Cody Johnson
“Wait in the Van” From the writers: Hunter Phelps, Jordan Schmidt, Michael Hardy, Renee Blair; Artist: Hardy featuring Lainey Wilson
“You Should Probably Leave” Writers: Ashley Gurley, Chris Dubois, Chris Stapleton (Artist: Stapleton)
Visual Media of the Year
“First Heart,” Kelsea Ballerini
“Mine was in Heads Carolina,” Cole Swindell
“Thank God,” Kane Brown with Caitlin Brown
“Til You Can’t,” Cody Johnson
“Wait in the Van”, Hardy featuring Lainey Wilson – WINNER
What Carly Pierce Didn’t Do
Music event of the year
“At the End of the Bar” by Chris Young with Mitchell Tenpenny
“I had it in Heads Carolina [Remix]Cole Swindell and Joe de Messina
“Thank God,” Kane Brown with Caitlin Brown
“Thinking ‘Bout You’, Dustin Lynch featuring MacKenzie Porter”.
“Wait in the Van”, Hardy featuring Lainey Wilson – WINNER
Songwriter of the Year
Nicole Galleon
Ashley Gourley – WINNER
Chase McGill
Josh Osborne
Hunter Phelps
Artist and Songwriter of the Year
Luke Combs
ernst
Hardy – winner
Miranda Lambert
Morgan Wallen
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