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Miranda Lambert breaks ACM record previously held by Reba McEntire

Miranda Lambert has received her 17th Female Artist of the Year nomination for the 2023 ACM Awards

Miranda Lambert and Reba McEntire perform onstage during Brooks & Dunn's The Last Rodeo Show in 2010
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Miranda Lambert has broken Reba McEntire's long-held Academy of Country Music (ACM) Awards record, after receiving her 17th Female Artist of the Year nomination.

Reba has been nominated 16 times across her career but on Thursday April 13, Miranda surpassed the number after the 2023 nominations were announced. As well as the Female Artist of the Year, Miranda also has four other nominations including Entertainer of the Year and Album of the Year for 2022's Palomino. In 2022 she won the coveted ACM Triple Crown, becoming only the eighth country star to win the rare award.

Elsewhere for the second time in ACM history, three albums released by all-female acts have been nominated for Album of the Year with Ashley McBryde and Lainey Wilson joining Miranda in the category along with Luke Combs and Jon Pardi.

The last time three all-female acts had albums nominated for Album of the Year in the same year was in 1999; Faith Hill, Jo Dee Messina and The Chicks were nominated that year and The Chicks ended up winning the category with Wide Open Spaces. 

Jo Dee has received her first nomination in 22 years in 2023 as she joins Cole Swindell for Event of the Year for their hit collaboration 'She Had Me At Heads Carolina'.

Hardy ft. Lainey Wilson perform together© NBC
Hardy ft. Lainey Wilson perform together

HARDY leads with seven nominations including Song of the Year and Artist-Songwriter of the Year. HARDY shares three of his nominations with collaborator Lainey for their song 'wait in the truck'; Lainey received the most nods for a female artist with six nominations including Female Artist of the Year and she is also the artist nominated in the highest number of categories this year. 

Kane Brown and his wife Katelyn received three nominations together for their song 'Thank God', marking Katelyn's first ever ACM nominations, while Morgan Wallen received four nods including his first nomination for Entertainer of the Year.

2023 ACM Nominations

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 Presents: Lindeville - Ashley McBryde

 Bell Bottom Country - Lainey Wilson

Growin’ Up - Luke Combs

Mr. Saturday Night - Jon Pardi

Palomino - Miranda Lambert

SINGLE OF THE YEAR

Heart Like A Truck - Lainey Wilson

 Never Wanted To Be That Girl - Carly Pearce & Ashley McBryde

She Had Me At Heads Carolina - Cole Swindell

Thank God - Kane Brown with Katelyn Brown

‘Til You Can’t - Cody Johnson

SONG OF THE YEAR 

Sand In My Boots - Morgan Wallen

She Had Me At Heads Carolina - Cole Swindell

Til You Can’t - Cody Johnson

wait in the truck - HARDY feat. Lainey Wilson

You Should Probably Leave - Chris Stapleton

VISUAL MEDIA OF THE YEAR 

HEARTFIRST - Kelsea Ballerini

She Had Me At Heads Carolina - Cole Swindell

Thank God - Kane Brown with Katelyn Brown

‘Til You Can’t - Cody Johnson

wait in the truck - HARDY feat. Lainey Wilson

What He Didn’t Do - Carly Pearce

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

At the End of a Bar - Chris Young with Mitchell Tenpenny

She Had Me At Heads Carolina [Remix] - Cole Swindell & Jo Dee Messina

Thank God - Kane Brown with Katelyn Brown

Thinking ‘Bout You - Dustin Lynch feat. MacKenzie Porter 

Wait in the truck - HARDY feat. Lainey Wilson

K - HARDY feat. Lainey Wilson