Complete 61st ACM Awards nominees list announced for 2026. All categories featuring country music’s biggest names competing.
Country star Lainey Wilson receives 7 ACM Award nominations in 2026 including Entertainer of the Year consideration.
Country legend Miranda Lambert earns 8 ACM Award nominations for 2026, placing her second among all nominees behind Megan Moroney.
Country music legend Chris Stapleton earns 6 ACM Award nominations in 2026 including consideration for Entertainer of the Year.
Country star Jelly Roll achieves a major career milestone with his Grand Ole Opry induction on March 10. The emotional ceremony featured Lainey Wilson presenting and John Carter Cash presenting a historic gift.
Ella Langley’s ‘Choosin’ Texas’ achieves historic milestone on March 23, 2026, becoming the first female country song to spend 4 weeks at Hot 100 #1.
The 2026 Country Music Hall of Fame class honors Tim McGraw, The Stanley Brothers, and Paul Overstreet for their legendary contributions to country music.
Cody Johnson achieves historic milestone on March 22, 2026, becoming only the second artist ever to perform a concert-only event at the Houston Rodeo.
Ella Langley and Megan Moroney achieve unprecedented Billboard history on March 2 as the first female pair to simultaneously hold Hot 100 and Billboard 200 #1s.
Morgan Wallen achieved his 20th #1 on Billboard Country Airplay with ’20 Cigarettes,’ marking his first chart-topper of 2026 and extending his record for most Country Airplay #1s.
Triple Grammy-winning Jelly Roll received the prestigious CRB Artist Humanitarian Award at Country Radio Seminar in Nashville for his addiction recovery advocacy and mental health awareness work.