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The 2026 ACM Awards Nominations: When Will Voters Get It Right?

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Rolling Stone

Music Commentary, Music, Music Interviews

4.01.1K Ratings

🗓️ 20 April 2026

⏱️ 17 minutes

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Nominations for the 2026 ACM Awards are out now and we have some questions. Rolling Stone’s Senior Music Editor Joseph Hudak and longtime RS contributor and author Marissa R. Moss break down five key storylines, from the dominance by this year’s women nominees to the wildly confusing New Artist races. Check out our hot takes and be sure to tune in to the 61st ACMs airing May 17 on Prime Video, live from Las Vegas.   Country is Here… Nashville is Now.   Check out our Hear Now playlist on Spotify, updated weekly. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

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Hey everybody, welcome to a very special little mini episode of rolling this is our special at 2026 ACM awards nominations recap talking session

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shit talking session whatever you want to call it.

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We are happy to have Marissa R. Moss here, a Rolling Stone contributor, one of my favorite writers

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and the author of her book, her country about women in country music and how they became the

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successes they were never supposed to be.

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Marissa and I are going to talk a little bit about all the nominations who got snubbed, who scored some big ones, what's going on with the new artist category? It's all right here. Marissa, thank you so much for being here. Hi, good to be back. It's good to have you here. Thanks for doing this. Of course. I love to talk about award nominations. You love to talk about awards nominations.

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