Old Dominion scored the first two ACM Award nominations of their career this week, with the band nabbing nods for Vocal Group of the Year, as well as New Vocal Duo or Group of the Year. It’s been quite a year for the group, and at a recent celebration for their two-week number-one debut single, “Break up with Him,” lead singer Matthew Ramsey told reporters that the band doesn’t think about its “place” in country music as much as it thinks about just making really great music. (AUDIO INFO BELOW)

• In response to their ACM nominations, Old Dominion’s Matthew Ramsey said in a press release, “As songwriters, we started playing together so our songs would be heard and people would hopefully want to cut them. So to know that as a band we have been honored by receiving this type of recognition has us all feeling incredibly grateful and truthfully, a little speechless.”
• Old Dominion performed their new single, “Snapback,” and their chart-topping Gold record, “Break up with Him,” as part of their late-night TV debut on Monday’s Jimmy Kimmel Live. Check out “Snapback” in the video below!
• Access Hollywood recently posted a photo gallery from Old Dominion’s sold-out show at The Roxy in Los Angeles! Check it out on AccessHollywood.com!

  Old Dominion’s Matthew Ramsey says that the band doesn’t really think about its “place” in country music, as much as it thinks about just making great music. (:47)
“We just think about tryin’ to write the best song we can and what’s gonna excite us. And now that we actually have an audience, you know, what’s gonna excite them. And I don’t really think we try to think about where we fit. Hopefully we fit in a lot of different places. And you know, it’s country, and it’s pop, and it’s rock, and hopefully, I think there’s room for all of that. So, as long as we keep following, you know, what excites us and what moves us when we’re writing, then that’s gonna translate to our show, and that’s gonna translate to our fans. And that’s the only way that we’ve really gotten any success in the first place. So, if we are creating some sort of new sound for the genre, it’s just by following what we like and what we think sounds cool and what we’d want to listen to.”