Old Dominion and Luke Combs were big winners Wednesday night at the 2020 ACM Awards.
Combs was named Male Artist of the Year and won Best Album for What You See Is What You Get and Old Dominion was celebrated as Group of the Year and won Song of the Year for "One Man Band.”
Accepting the latter, Old Dominion frontman Matthew Ramsey took the opportunity to pay tribute to family members and a friend the band has lost. "I can feel them all, they're so proud," he said, "and this is such an honour to receive this in their presence."
Thomas Rhett’s "Remember You Young” won Video of the Year and the singer shared the Entertainer of the Year award with Carrie Underwood, who lost Female Artist of the Year to Maren Morris.
“I’m beaming," Rhett said. "My heart is racing. What an amazing honour ... I will never forget this moment.”
Canada’s Tenille Townes – who was previously named New Female Artist – won the ACM Award for Music Event of the Year for being featured in a performance of “Fooled Around and Fell in Love” by Miranda Lambert along with Maren Morris, Ashley McBryde, Caylee Hammack and Elle King.
Keith Urban hosted the ACM Awards, without a live audience, at the Grand Old Opry House and performers included Combs, Underwood, Luke Bryan, Florida Georgia Line, Eric Church and Tim McGraw. Trisha Yearwood performed the In Memoriam tribute and Taylor Swift returned to the ACM Awards for the first time in seven years to perform her folklore track “Betty.”
Mickey Gunton made history as the first Black woman to perform on the show. "Brava Mickey! It makes me so happy to see you shine," tweeted Jennifer Nettles, "and share your talent and love for country music, with the world!"
Check out the winners below:
DUO OF THE YEAR
Brooks & Dunn
Brothers Osborne
Dan + Shay - WINNER
Florida Georgia Line
Maddie & Tae
GROUP OF THE YEAR
Lady A
Little Big Town
Midland
Old Dominion - WINNER
The Highwomen
NEW FEMALE ARTIST OF THE YEAR
Ingrid Andress
Gabby Barrett
Lindsay Ell
Caylee Hammack
Tenille Townes - WINNER
NEW MALE ARTIST OF THE YEAR
Jordan Davis
Russell Dickerson
Riley Green - WINNER
Cody Johnson
Morgan Wallen
ALBUM OF THE YEAR
Center Point Road — Thomas Rhett
GIRL — Maren Morris
Heartache Medication — Jon Pardi
What You See Is What You Get — Luke Combs - WINNER
Wildcard — Miranda Lambert
SINGLE OF THE YEAR
"God's Country" — Blake Shelton - WINNER
"One Man Band" — Old Dominion
"Rainbow" — Kacey Musgraves
"Rumor" — Lee Brice
"What If I Never Get Over You" — Lady A
SONG OF THE YEAR
"10,000 Hours" — Dan + Shay with Justin Bieber
"Girl Goin' Nowhere" — Ashley McBryde
"God's Country" — Blake Shelton
"One Man Band" — Old Dominion - WINNER
"Some of It" — Eric Church
VIDEO OF THE YEAR
"10,000 Hours" — Dan + Shay with Justin Bieber
"God's Country" — Blake Shelton
"One Man Band" — Old Dominion
"Remember You Young" — Thomas Rhett - WINNER
"Sugar Coat" — Little Big Town
SONGWRITER OF THE YEAR
Ashley Gorley
Michael Hardy
Hillary Lindsey - WINNER
Shane McAnally
Josh Osborne
ENTERTAINER OF THE YEAR
Luke Bryan
Eric Church
Luke Combs
Thomas Rhett - WINNER
Carrie Underwood - WINNER
FEMALE ARTIST OF THE YEAR
Kelsea Ballerini
Miranda Lambert
Maren Morris - WINNER
Kacey Musgraves
Carrie Underwood
MALE ARTIST OF THE YEAR
Dierks Bentley
Luke Combs - WINNER
Thomas Rhett
Chris Stapleton
Keith Urban
MUSIC EVENT OF THE YEAR
"10,000 Hours" -- Dan + Shay with Justin Bieber
"Dive Bar" -- Garth Brooks Featuring Blake Shelton
"Fooled Around and Fell in Love" -- Miranda Lambert Featuring Maren Morris, Ashley McBryde, Tenille Townes, Caylee Hammack & Elle King - WINNER
"Old Town Road" -- Lil Nas X Featuring Billy Ray Cyrus
