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ACM Awards 2023 is here and guess who and who is leading among the top nominees? Yes, you heard it right, and we are revealing the mavins to you immediately.

HARDY’s objective for the year was to “change the trajectory of my life,” he told The Tennessean, a USA TODAY Network publication, earlier this year.

If the singer behind the album “The Mockingbird and the Crow” wins all seven Academy of Country Music Awards for which he is nominated on May 11 at Ford Center at The Star in Frisco, Texas, he will have done just that.

Three of HARDY’s nominations are shared with Lainey Wilson, the most nominated female vocalist (six nods) at the 2023 ACM Awards for their anti-domestic violence murder song “Wait in the Truck.” Miranda Lambert, who received her 17th nomination for ACM Triple Crown Award (entertainer of the year, new artist, and artist category wins), has surpassed Reba McEntire as the most nominated female artist of the year nominee in the award program’s history.

Another potential Triple Crown winner would be Luke Combs or Chris Stapleton, who would win the Entertainer of the Year award.

Morgan Wallen, HARDY’s Big Loud labelmate, has carried his mega-massive streaming and touring success to his first Entertainer of the Year nomination, his eighth ACM nomination.

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Garth Brooks and Dolly Parton will present the Academy of Country Music Awards in 2023.

Kane and Katelyn Brown, the country charts’ “it” pair of the moment according to Billboard and Mediabase, have lots to celebrate as well.

Kane received his first nominations for Entertainer and male artist of the Year this year. The married couple’s hit “Thank God” has also been nominated for three awards (single, music event, and visual media of the year). These are Katelyn’s first nominations, bringing Kane Brown’s career total to 14.

Dolly Parton and Garth Brooks will host the event, which will be streamed live on Amazon Prime Video for a global audience at 8 p.m. EDT/5 p.m. PDT.

In addition, the full rebroadcast of “Country Music’s Party of the Year” will be available for free the following day on Amazon Freevee.

The following are the nominees:

Entertainer of the Year

• Jason Aldean
• Kane Brown
• Luke Combs
• Miranda Lambert
• Chris Stapleton
• Carrie Underwood
• Morgan Wallen

Female Artist of the Year

• Kelsea Ballerini
• Miranda Lambert
• Ashley McBryde
• Carly Pearce
• Lainey Wilson

Male Artist of the Year

• Kane Brown
• Luke Combs
• Jordan Davis
• Chris Stapleton
• Morgan Wallen

Duo of the Year

• Brooks & Dunn
• Brothers Osborne
• Dan + Shay
• Maddie & Tae
• The War and Treaty

Group of the Year

• Lady A
• Little Big Town
• Midland
• Old Dominion
• Zac Brown Band

New Female Artist of the Year

• Priscilla Block
• Megan Moroney
• Caitlyn Smith
• Morgan Wade
• Hailey Whitters

New Male Artist of the Year

• Zach Bryan
• Jackson Dean
• ERNEST
• Dylan Scott
• Nate Smith
• Bailey Zimmerman

Album of the Year

• Ashley McBryde, “Ashley McBryde Presents: Lindeville”
• Lainey Wilson, “Bell Bottom Country”
• Luke Combs, “Growin’ Up”
• Jon Pardi, “Mr. Saturday Night”
• Miranda Lambert, “Palomino”

Single of the Year

• Lainey Wilson, “Heart Like A Truck”
• Carly Pearce and Ashley McBryde, “Never Wanted to Be That Girl”
• Cole Swindell, “She Had Me at Heads Carolina”
• Kane Brown with Katelyn Brown, “Thank God”
• Cody Johnson, ” ‘Til You Can’t”

Song of the Year

• Morgan Wallen, “Sand In My Boots”
• Cole Swindell, “She Had Me at Heads Carolina”
• Cody Johnson, ” ‘Til You Can’t”
• HARDY featuring Lainey Wilson, “Wait in the Truck”
• Chris Stapleton, “You Should Probably Leave”

Visual Media of the Year

• Kelsea Ballerini, “HEARTFIRST”
• Cole Swindell, “She Had Me at Heads Carolina”
• Kane Brown with Katelyn Brown, “Thank God”
• Cody Johnson, ” ‘Til You Can’t”
• HARDY featuring Lainey Wilson, “Wait in the Truck”
• Carly Pearce, “What He Didn’t Do”

Songwriter of the Year

• Nicolle Galyon
• Ashley Gorley
• Chase McGill
• Josh Osborne
• Hunter Phelps

Artist-songwriter of the Year

• Luke Combs
• ERNEST
• HARDY
• Miranda Lambert
• Morgan Wallen

Music Event of the Year

• Chris Young with Mitchell Tenpenny, “At the End of a Bar”
• Cole Swindell & Jo Dee Messina, “She Had Me at Heads Carolina (Remix)”
• Kane Brown with Katelyn Brown, “Thank God”
• Dustin Lynch featuring MacKenzie Porter, “Thinking ‘Bout You”
• HARDY featuring Lainey Wilson, “Wait in the Truck”

Where Will the ACM Awards Be in 2023?

FRISCO, Texas — On Thursday, May 11, the 2023 Academy of County Music Awards will take place at the Ford Center at The Star in Frisco.