CMA Awards 2023: Lainey Wilson dominates with 5 awards. See full list of winners.

CMA Awards 2023: Lainey Wilson dominates with 5 awards. See full list of winners.

The 57th Annual Country Music Association Awards kicked off in Nashville a little early Wednesday with the first awards announced on "Good Morning America." Lainey Wilson and HARDY were crowned the winners for Musical Event and Music Video of the Year for their collaboration "wait in the truck." More on that HERE.

Lainey-Wilson-CMA Awards 2023

Additional awards will be handed out live during the broadcast, so check back here for updated winners as they happen throughout the night.

Entertainer of the Year

  1. Luke Combs
  2. Chris Stapleton
  3. Carrie Underwood
  4. Morgan Wallen
  5. Lainey Wilson 

Album of the Year

  • "Ashley McBryde Presents: Lindeville"  Ashley McBryde (Producers: John Osborne, John Peets.Mix Engineers: Gena Johnson, John Osborne)
  • "Bell Bottom Country"  Lainey Wilson (Producer: Jay Joyce. Mix Engineers: Jason Hall, Jay Joyce)
  • "Gettin' Old"  Luke Combs (Producers: Luke Combs, Chip Matthews, Jonathan Singleton. Mix Engineers: Michael H. Brauer, Jim Cooley, Chip Matthews)
  • "One Thing At A Time"  Morgan Wallen (Producers: Jacob Durrett, Charlie Handsome, Joey Moi, Cameron Montgomery. Mix Engineers: Josh Ditty, Joey Moi, Eivind Nordland)
  • "Rolling Up the Welcome Mat"  Kelsea Ballerini (Producers: Kelsea Ballerini, Alysa Vanderheym.Mix Engineers: Dan Grech-Marguerat, Alysa Vanderheym)

Wilson, who was visibly emotional as she walked on stage in Nashville for the award, gave a speech about her love for the genre and the dedication that has gone into her award-winning year — not just in the studio, but on the road.

"This is all I've ever wanted to do, it’s the only thing I know how to do," a tearful Wilson, 31, began her speech. "We have played... I think at the end of the year we’ll have played about 186 shows this year and we‘ve worked our butts off this year and so many years in between. I've been in this town for 12-and-a-half years and it finally feels like country music is starting to love me back."

Wilson then spoke about the number nine, which she said may just "be my lucky number."

"That’s how many times we were nominated for the CMAs this year," she explained. "But it’s also the year that I wrote my first song. It’s the year that I got my first pair of bell bottoms. It’s the year that my mom and daddy brought me to Nashville for the very first time and took me to the Grand Ole Opry for the first time. It’s the year that my mom and daddy brought home this horse named Tex and the horse was, it was wild and it needed breaking and they put me on the back of that thing and they said 'You better hold on, you better ride.'"

"And I tell you what, there were times where I was crying and I wanted to get down, I’m like, 'Let me off the back of this thing.' But y’all, every time it would start bucking, I’d hold on a little bit tighter," she added of the horse.

As Wilson explained, she felt the horse "prepared me for this ride, because it is wild."

"And thank y’all for letting me be me and thank y’all for, for giving me this opportunity," Wilson concluded her speech. "Thank you Jesus. Thank you. Thank you every single person on my team.

I love y’all. I love you Duck. Do love you Mom and Daddy, Jane, the boys, God bless you."

Last month, Wilson announced the Country’s Cool Again Tour, which will take her to more than 35 cities across North America starting in May 2024.

“Nothing gets me buzzin’ like putting on a show and singing along with the crowd,” Wilson said in a statement. “I want to give a big thank you to all of the fans who have continuously showed up and showed out this year. We can’t wait to see you nationwide on the Country’s Cool Again Tour!”


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