Chris Stapleton is officially the reigning ACM Entertainer of the Year. The singer-songwriter was stunned when he took the stage to accept the honor, later reflecting on the significance of taking home the night’s highest honor. “I’m humbled by it,” Stapleton said backstage at the ACM Awards. “And I feel very thankful to the people that voted for me…
Lainey Wilson‘s path to becoming a country music superstar was paved with a lot of roadblocks and setbacks. The Louisiana native moved to Nashville when she was just 19 years old, living in a camper trailer for years while she struggled to get anyone to listen to her music. Now, with four new ACM Awards to add to her…
Dolly Parton closed out the 2023 ACM Awards by performing her brand-new rock song, “World on Fire.” The song is from her forthcoming, 30-track Rockstar album, which will be released on November 17. Ahead of her performance, the 77-year-old admitted she was anxious about performing the song live for the first time. “I’m excited, a little bit nervous, in…
Talk about a surprise performance. Ed Sheeran ahd already been announced as a performer for the 2023 ACM Awards, but no one expected Luke Combs to join him on stage. The two singers collaborated on “Life Goes On,” from Sheeran’s latest Subtract album, out now. After his performance, Garth Brooks, who hosted the live ceremony alongside Dolly Parton, asked…
For the first time ever, Chris Stapleton is the reigning ACM Awards Entertainer of the Year. The father of five has been nominated a total of five times, winning in the category for the first time this year — a victory that he admits he did not expect. “By any imaginable metric, I don’t deserve this, but thank you,” Stapleton…
If the 2023 ACM Awards belonged to anyone, it belonged to Lainey Wilson. The Louisiana native won ACM Awards for Music Event of the Year and Visual Media of the Year, both for her “wait in the truck” duet with HARDY, as well as Female Artist of the Year and Album of the Year, the latter for her 2022 Bell Bottom Country…
Lainey Wilson won the ACM Award for Female Artist of the Year! Wilson, who also won Music Event of the Year and Visual Media of the Year with HARDY, for their “wait in the truck” duet, along with Album of the Year (for Bell Bottom Country), was stunned by a win in this category. “First of all I want…
HARDY and Lainey Wilson have another ACM Award to add to their growing collection. The two, whose “wait in the truck” collaboration previously earned them a trophy for Visual Media of the Year, also won the ACM Award for Music Event of the Year. “Thank you, Lainey,” HARDY said of the honor. “You absolutely killed it. There was never a…
Cole Swindell has won another ACM Award. The Georgia native, who won the trophy earlier in the evening for Song of the Year, also won Single of the Year. Both ACM Awards are for his “She Had Me At Heads Carolina” song, his tribute to Jo Dee Messina‘s “Heads Carolina, Tails California.” “I do want to just thank the…
Old Dominion has taken home the ACM Award for Vocal Group of the Year, a category they have won every year since 2017. “First of all, there’s people in this room, like Garth Brooks and Dolly Parton and Randy Travis, and somehow we are included in this party, still,” lead singer Matt Ramsey said when accepting the trophy. “I…
