MAREN MORRIS: LEADS 2021 ACM AWARDS NOMINATIONS WITH SIX
FEMALE ARTIST OF THE YEAR,
SINGLE OF THE YEAR, SONG OF THE YEAR,
VIDEO OF THE YEAR, GROUP OF THE YEAR
Hurd: It’s fun for me. I mean I don’t really – it’s just fun to see how many nominations Maren gets every year and you know knock on wood, you never assume that that’s coming but it’s always just a special moment to celebrate.
Morris: We love the ACMs. I’m super excited. There’s been so much great music and it’s been such a creative time for artists in our genre. This last year even though no one can tour, some amazing albums and singles have been released so I’m – This is like our first real nomination cycle for an award show to come out after a year of covid. So I’m wondering like where the nominations go because it’s just been the weirdest year of the music industry so
Hurd: Obviously, I mean it’s always cool to see like – look back on the year and just see like what great work people did. I mean and it’s always fun if Maren gets a bunch of nominations.
February 26, 2021—Maren Morris leads this year’s ACM Awards nominations, tied for most with six: Female Artist of the Year, which she took home at last year’s awards; Single of the Year and Song of the Year (as writer and performer) for her record-breaking, triple-Platinum smash hit “The Bones;” Group of the Year with The Highwomen; and Video of the Year for “ Better Than We Found It,” on which Maren partnered with emerging director Gabby Woodland—for whom this is the first nomination.
In addition, “The Bones”—taken from her massively acclaimed 2019 album GIRL—is nominated for Best Country Song at the 63rd Annual Grammy Awards. The song dominated 2020, topping the Billboard Hot Country Songs chart for 19 consecutive weeks and was the first solo female multi-week #1 at country radio since 2012. Maren also won Female Vocalist of the Year, Single of the Year and Song of the Year at the 2020 CMA Awards, plus Female Artist of the Year and Music Event of the Year at the 2020 ACM Awards. GIRL shattered the record for the largest ever debut streaming week for a country album by a woman and was named Album of the Year at the 2019 CMA Awards, where Maren was the most nominated artist.
The Grammy winner kicked off 2021 with a performance of her protest song in support of Black Lives Matter “Better Than We Found It” on “The Late Show with Stephen Colbert” as well as collaborations with her husband, the Nashville breakout star Ryan Hurd on “Chasing After You ” and Grammy-nominated singer, songwriter and multi-instrumentalist JP Saxe on “ Line By Line.”
Contacts:
Sony Music Nashville
Allen Brown
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Sacks & Co
Carla Sacks
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Cami Opere
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Reid Kutrow
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Asha Goodman
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