When the 60th annual Country Music Awards are presented at Bridgestone Arena on Wednesday (Nov. 18), Miranda Lambert, Chris Stapleton, Lainey Wilson, Brooks & Dunn and Tim McGraw could move up the leaderboard of the all-time winners in the show’s history.
Lambert is nominated for seven awards, including female vocalist of the year; musical event of the year for separate collabs with Stapleton and Kacey Musgraves; and four awards for writing and producing music by Ella Langley.
Stapleton is nominated for four awards – entertainer of the year, male vocalist of the year, music video of the year for “White Horse” and musical event of the year for the aforementioned collab with Lambert.
Wilson is nominated for three awards – entertainer of the year, female vocalist of the year and single of the year for “Somewhere Over Laredo.”
Brooks & Dunn is nominated for one award (vocal duo of the year), as is McGraw (musical event of the year for a collab with HARDY, Eric Church and Morgan Wallen).
Thirteen artists have won 11 or more CMA Awards in competition. Here is a complete list. This list doesn’t count honorary awards. Following the lead of the official CMA list of its all-time top winners, we give artists credit for just one win in a category, even if they also produced or co-produced the recording.
We also looked back to see if the acts won new artist of the year (known as the Horizon Award from 1981-2007). As you will see, not all did!
Here’s a complete list of all artists who have won 11 or more CMA Awards. We’ll update this list after Wednesday’s show.
