Dan + Shay Take Home Top Honors at ACM Awards
April 10, 2019
Dan + Shay lead ASCAP ACM Awards winners with three, including Duo of the Year, for which they were nominated for the sixth time in their career. The pair earned Single of the Year for their hit “Tequila,” which was also named Song of the Year and co-written by Jordan Reynolds with the duo’s Dan Smyers. Dan + Shay earned six nominations in total at this year’s ACMs, and Smyers received three individual nominations as a producer in the Album of the Year, Single of the Year and Music Event of the Year categories.
Old Dominion picked up their third consecutive Group of the Year trophy, Dierks Bentley and Brothers Osborne won the award for Musical Event of the Year, and LANCO took home the New Group of the Year prize. Multiple ACM Award-winner Reba McEntire returned as the host of the show for the sixteenth time.
Congratulations to all of our 2019 ACM Awards Nominees (winners in bold):
ENTERTAINER OF THE YEAR
- Chris Stapleton
MALE ARTIST OF THE YEAR
- Dierks Bentley
- Chris Stapleton
DUO OF THE YEAR
- Brothers Osborne
- Dan + Shay
- Maddie & Tae
GROUP OF THE YEAR
- Lady Antebellum
- LANCO
- Midland
- Old Dominion
NEW FEMALE ARTIST OF THE YEAR
- Carly Pearce
NEW MALE ARTIST OF THE YEAR
- Jordan Davis
NEW DUO OR GROUP OF THE YEAR
- High Valley (SOCAN)
- LANCO
ALBUM OF THE YEAR [Awarded to Artist(s)/Producer(s)/Record Company–Label(s)]
- Dan + Shay – Dan + Shay
Producers: Dan Smyers / Matt Dragstrem - From A Room: Volume 2 – Chris Stapleton
Producer: Chris Stapleton - The Mountain – Dierks Bentley
SINGLE OF THE YEAR [Awarded to Artist(s)/Producer(s)/Record Company–Label(s)]
- Heaven
Producer: Dann Huff - Tequila – Dan + Shay
Producer: Dan Smyers
SONG OF THE YEAR [Awarded to Songwriter(s)/Publisher(s)/Artist(s)]
- Break Up In The End
Writer: Jon Nite
Publishers: EMI April Music Inc./Nite Writer Music - Broken Halos – Chris Stapleton
Writers: Chris Stapleton
Publishers: WB Music Corp./House of Sea Gayle Music - Meant To Be
Writer: David Garcia
Publishers: Brentwood Benson Publishing/D Soul Music - Tequila – Dan + Shay
Writers: Jordan Reynolds / Dan Smyers
Publishers: Beats and Banjos/WB Music Corp/Buckeye26/Jreynmusic
VIDEO OF THE YEAR [Awarded to Producer(s)/Director(s)/Artist(s)]
- Babe – Sugarland
- Burn Out – Midland
- Burning Man – Dierks Bentley featuring Brothers Osborne
- Shoot Me Straight – Brothers Osborne
- Tequila – Dan + Shay
SONGWRITER OF THE YEAR
- Ashley Gorley
- Josh Osborne
MUSIC EVENT OF THE YEAR [Awarded to Artist(s)/Producer(s)/Record Company–Label(s)]
- Burning Man – Dierks Bentley featuring Brothers Osborne
- Everything’s Gonna Be Alright – David Lee Murphy
Producers: Buddy Cannon, David Lee Murphy - Keeping Score – Dan + Shay featuring Kelly Clarkson
Producer: Dan Smyers
PRODUCER OF THE YEAR
- Buddy Cannon
- Dann Huff
STUDIO RECORDING AWARDS:
BASS PLAYER OF THE YEAR
- Tony Lucido
- Glenn Worf
DRUMMER OF THE YEAR
- Matt Chamberlain
GUITAR PLAYER OF THE YEAR
- Jedd Hughes
- Ilya Toshinsky
SPECIALTY INSTRUMENT(S) PLAYER OF THE YEAR
- Ilya Toshinsky
STEEL GUITAR PLAYER OF THE YEAR
- Mike Johnson
AUDIO ENGINEER OF THE YEAR
- F Reid Shippen