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2024 CMA Awards winners, complete list

Nov 20, 2024, 9:03 PM | Updated: 9:13 pm

The CMA Awards, dubbed “country music’s biggest night,” airs live at 6 p.m. MT on Wednesday from Nashville’s Bridgestone Arena for its 58th edition.

Luke Bryan, Peyton Manning and Lainey Wilson will pose a triple threat as hosts of the night’s event, this being Wilson’s first time at the helm. Bryan and Manning have hosted the awards show before, three and two times, respectively, and the vets have emceed the CMA Awards together for the past two years.

Wilson herself will be one of the five nominees vying for the most coveted award of the night, Entertainer of the Year, along with Luke Combs, Jelly Roll, Chris Stapleton and Morgan Wallen. The latter tops the list for the most nominations at seven, while Cody Johnson and Chris Stapleton are on his heels with five each.

Accolades are only a piece of the CMA Awards puzzle, though.

The show’s docket is packed with performers: Stapleton, Post Malone, Ashley McBryde, Wilson, Bryan, Shaboozey, Thomas Rhett, Teddy Swims, Dierks Bentley, Molly Tuttle, Sierra Hull and Bronwyn Keith-Hynes are all set to take the stage.

The 2024 CMA Willie Nelson Lifetime Achievement Award, defined by the CMA as an honor “awarded to an iconic artist who has attained the highest degree of recognition in Country Music. The award recognizes those who have achieved both national and international prominence and stature through concert performances, humanitarian efforts, philanthropy, streaming numbers, record sales and public representation at the highest level,” will be accepted by George Strait at the ceremony. The first award of its kind was introduced in 2012 and was given to its current namesake, Nelson himself.

Strait can cite his Entertainer of the Year awards from 1989, 1990 and 2013 as evidence of his “prominence” and impact on the genre.

Viewers can catch the show live on ABC and stream the event the next day on Hulu.

Winners will be bolded below as they are announced.

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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