Lainey Wilson Has A Story To Tell With Nine CMA Awards Nominations
All eyes are on Lainey Wilson tonight (November 8) as she attends the 57th Annual CMA Awards. The country superstar topped the list with nine nominations, including Entertainer of the…
All eyes are on Lainey Wilson tonight (November 8) as she attends the 57th Annual CMA Awards. The country superstar topped the list with nine nominations, including Entertainer of the Year and Album of the Year.
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Our CMA Awards host Jeff Kurkjian, jumped right in by asking Wilson about her recently announced 2024 Country's Cool Again Tour with special guests Jackson Dean, Ian Munsick, and Zack Top who she says is "country to the bone."
Wilson is scheduled to perform on more than 35 dates across North America next year and will start things off at the Ascend Amphitheater in Nashville, Tennessee on May 31.
Over the last year and a half, the "Heart Like A Truck" singer has experienced a lot of life changes, all while becoming one of the biggest names in country music.
"Hey, you speak it, you believe it. I know it's been wild. I will say I've been here in Nashville for a little over 12 and a half years, but it does seem like once things finally started clicking and working, it was like I was just trying to hold on for dear life. And that's the way it's been but it's been fun," Wilson said.
"If I had not spent the 12 years in this town like I have. I don't know if I had enough of a story to tell. You know, you live and you grow and you learn and that's what you write about," Wilson added.
Wilson will hit the stage tonight at the 2023 CMA Awards to perform her fan-favorite track "Wildflowers and Wildhorses." Country Music's Biggest Night will air live from Nashville at 8/7c on ABC hosted by Luke Bryan and Peyton Manning.
Lainey Wilson: CMA Awards 2023 Nominations
1. Entertainer of the Year
2 Single of the Year (“Heart Like A Truck”)
3. Single of the Year (“wait in the truck”)
4. Album of the Year (Bell Bottom Country)
5. Song of the Year (“Heart Like A Truck”)
6. Female Vocalist of the Year
7. Musical Event of the Year (“Save Me”)
8. Musical Event of the Year (“wait in the truck”)
9. Music Video of the Year (“wait in the truck”)
As she celebrates her 31st birthday today (5/19), Lainey Wilson is the reigning Female Vocalist for the ACMs and the CMAs. She also won the ACM Album of the Year award for Bell Bottom Country, beating out albums by Miranda Lambert and Luke Combs.
There is no doubt that Lainey is well on her way to becoming a country music superstar. She currently opens stadium shows for Luke Combs and gets a performance slot at the 2023 CMA Fest at Nissan Stadium in June in front of 65,000 fans worldwide.
As she celebrates her big day today (5/19), we count down what we believe are her six very best songs to date, with many more to come in the future.
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6 - "Watermelon Moonshine" (2023)
BBRThe chorus of this fun song includes the lyrics, "Drinkin' watermelon moonshine / We cut the burn with a little lime / Parkin' back in them kudzu vines / I was his and every bit of that boy was mine / Too young to know what love was / But we were learnin' on a sweet buzz / There's never nothin' like the first time / And mine's always gonna taste like / Watermelon moonshine."
5 - "Never Say Never" (Cole Swindell with Lainey Wilson) (2021)
WBSwindell said, "I have been a fan of Lainey Wilson's for a while now, and what she brings to this song is everything it needed." The song hit number one on Billboard's Country Airplay chart.
4 - "Grease" - (2023)
BBRA fun song that Lainey performed at the 58th ACM Awards, where she won Album of the Year for "Bell Bottom Country." Wilson released a dancing video for the song, finding country breakdancers that she saw at one of her shows and tracked them down to appear in the video.
3 - "Things a Man Oughta Know" (2020)
BBRThe music video for this song was shot in Wilson's own home partially and filled with personal elements and close friends. She said of the video at the time, "For the music video, we wanted to create a piece of art where people could watch it and feel something all over again." The song won the ACM 2021 Song of the Year.
2 - "Heart Like a Truck" (2022)
BBRLainey said of the song when it came out, "It's a song about finding freedom and strength. Not being afraid of the scars and the bruises and the bumps along the way. That makes you who you are. It builds character." It recently became her third number-one song on the Billboard charts.
1 - "Wait in the Truck" (HARDY with Lainey Wilson) (2022)
BIG LOUDSo many things to say about this amazing song. It just recently won Visual Media (video) of the Year and Music Event of the Year at the 58th ACM Awards. The music video is epic of the song labeled as a "murder ballad" about a male protagonist killing an abuser. Lainey and HARDY performed the song at the 2022 CMA Awards.
