Shaboozey, Post Malone, and Morgan Wallen Score 2024 CMA Awards Nominations
The nominations have been announced for the 2024 CMA Awards and this year’s crop of nominees include a number of familiar faces, a few new names, and the return of a past winner.
Morgan Wallen is the top nominee with seven total nods, mostly on the strength of his chart-topping collaboration with Post Malone, “I Had Some Help.” The song is up for Single of the Year, Song of the Year, Musical Event of the Year, and Music Video of the Year, and also garners Malone his first ever CMA nominations (with four). Wallen is also up for Male Vocalist, Musical Event (for his duet with Eric Church, “Man Made a Bar”), and the top prize of Entertainer of the Year.
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In addition to Wallen, this year’s Entertainer field includes Luke Combs, Jelly Roll, Chris Stapleton, and the 2023 winner, Lainey Wilson. Wilson is nominated for three other awards: Female Vocalist, Music Video of the Year for “Wildflowers and Wild Horses,” and Single of the Year for “Watermelon Moonshine.”
First-time nominees can often be an indication of where the genre may be headed next (like the pivot toward more traditional sounds with Stapleton in 2015, or the ascension of Jelly Roll last year). This time, Shaboozey earns his first CMA nominations, for Best New Artist and for his breakout multi-week chart-topper “Tipsy (A Bar Song),” which competes for Single of the Year. Other first-timers include Riley Green, Ella Langley, Noah Kahan, Ernest, Nate Smith, Mitchell Tenpenny, Bailey Zimmerman, and two of the hottest acts right now, country traditionalist Zach Top and the Alabama roots-rock band the Red Clay Strays.
The 2024 nominees list also marks the CMA return of Kacey Musgraves after nearly four years without a nomination: The 2018 Album of the Year winner for Golden Hour earns her first nods since 2020. Musgraves competes for Album of the Year for her latest LP, Deeper Well, and for Musical Event for her collab with Zach Bryan, “I Remember Everything.” She’s also up for Female Vocalist of the Year.
Beyoncé, who became the first Black woman to ever top Billboard’s Top Country Albums chart with her LP Cowboy Carter, as well as the first Black woman to hit Number One on the Hot Country Songs chart with her song “Texas Hold ‘Em,” did not receive any nominations.
Beyoncé’s “Texas Hold ‘Em” was among the most-added songs in the country market when it first debuted. Country radio ultimately didn’t continue to play it and the track peaked at Number 33 on Billboard’s Country Airplay chart.
The 58th CMA Awards air live on ABC on Wednesday, Nov. 20
The 2024 CMA Awards nominations:
Entertainer of the Year
Luke Combs
Jelly Roll
Chris Stapleton
Morgan Wallen
Lainey Wilson
Single of the Year
“A Bar Song (Tipsy),” Shaboozey
“Dirt Cheap,” Cody Johnson
“I Had Some Help,” Post Malone (Feat. Morgan Wallen)
“Watermelon Moonshine,” Lainey Wilson
“White Horse,” Chris Stapleton
Album of the Year
Deeper Well, Kacey Musgraves
Fathers & Sons, Luke Combs
Higher, Chris Stapleton
Leather, Cody Johnson
Whitsitt Chapel, Jelly Roll
Song of the Year
“Burn It Down,” Parker McCollum (Hillary Lindsey, McCollum, Lori McKenna, Liz Rose)
“Dirt Cheap,” Cody Johnson (Josh Phillips)
“I Had Some Help,” Post Malone (Feat. Morgan Wallen) (Louis Bell, Ashley Gorley, Charlie Handsome, Hoskins, Austin Post, Ernest Keith Smith, Morgan Wallen, Chandler Paul Walters)
“The Painter,” Cody Johnson (Benjy Davis, Kat Higgins, Ryan Larkins)
“White Horse,” Chris Stapleton (Stapleton, Dan Wilson)
Female Vocalist of the Year
Kelsea Ballerini
Ashley McBryde
Megan Moroney
Kacey Musgraves
Lainey Wilson
Male Vocalist of the Year
Luke Combs
Jelly Roll
Cody Johnson
Chris Stapleton
Morgan Wallen
Vocal Group of the Year
Lady A
Little Big Town
Old Dominion
The Red Clay Strays
Zac Brown Band
Vocal Duo of the Year
Brooks & Dunn
Brothers Osborne
Dan + Shay
Maddie & Tae
The War and Treaty
Musical Event of the Year
“Cowboys Cry Too,” Kelsea Ballerini (with Noah Kahan)
“I Had Some Help,” Post Malone (Feat. Morgan Wallen)
“I Remember Everything,” Zach Bryan (ft. Kacey Musgraves)
“Man Made a Bar,” Morgan Wallen (feat. Eric Church)
“You Look Like You Love Me,” Ella Langley (feat. Riley Green)
Musician of the Year
Tom Bukovac, Guitar
Jenee Fleenor, Fiddle
Paul Franklin, Steel Guitar
Rob McNelley, Guitar
Charlie Worsham, Guitar
Music Video of the Year
“Dirt Cheap,” Cody Johnson
“I Had Some Help,” Post Malone (Feat. Morgan Wallen)
“I’m Not Pretty,” Megan Moroney
“The Painter,” Cody Johnson
“Wildflowers and Wild Horses,” Lainey Wilson
New Artist of the Year
Megan Moroney
Shaboozey
Nate Smith
Mitchell Tenpenny
Zach Top
Bailey Zimmerman
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