The Academy of Country Music Drops Two Award Categories
The ACM’s have dropped the New Vocal Duo or New Vocal Group categories for the 2020 award show.
The reason the awards were dropped for this year is because no artists met the eligibility requirements: eligible duos or groups must have charted a Top 40 single in the eligibility period (1/1 – 12/31) and not been nominated twice in a three year period. They also can’t be former winners or have won Entertainer or the overall Duo or Group of the Year award previously, and they can’t have released a third studio album.
Previous winners of the award include Midland, Brothers Osborne and Old Dominion.
Florida Georgia Line won New Vocal Duo in 2013.
Nancy Brooks has been working in the country music industry for almost 30 years. She has interviewed pretty much any country star you can think of. In the late 1990s, she started working with Dolly Parton. And yes, Nancy reports that Parton is as sweet as you would think. She loves her life in country music and has been backstage at every CMA Awards show since the late 1990s.
Many of her stories are from her one-on-one interviews. She was there at the beginning of the incredible careers of many music superstars today, including Taylor Swift, Shania Twain, and Blake Shelton, and has interviewed them multiple times throughout the years.
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