Luke Combs leads the 2024 ACM Awards nominations, adopted by Morgan Wallen and Megan Moroney

Luke Combs leads the nominees for the 2024 Academy of Nation Music Awards with eight nods to his identify, it was introduced Tuesday.

For a fifth 12 months in a row, he is up for each male artist of the 12 months and the highest prize, entertainer of the 12 months.

The 59th annual ACM Awards will happen on Might 16 on the Ford Middle at The Star in Frisco, Texas, simply north of Dallas.

Combs’ eight nominations features a first-time nomination for Tracy Chapman. His cowl of her “Quick Automotive” is up for track of the 12 months, a class that acknowledges songwriters and publishers along with artists. Final 12 months, Chapman’s 1988 track gained track of the 12 months on the Nation Music Awards for Combs’ cowl, making her the primary Black songwriter to win within the class.

On the 2024 ACM Awards, Megan Moroney and Morgan Wallen carefully comply with Combs’ nominations with six every, whereas Cody Johnson, Chris Stapleton and Lainey Wilson are tied with 5.

Jordan Davis and Jelly Roll have 4 nominations.

That is Jelly Roll’s first-time receiving ACM nominations; he is up for entertainer of the 12 months, male artist of the 12 months, single of the 12 months (for “Want a Favor,” which gained massive on the CMT Music Awards final week ), and music occasion of the 12 months, for “Save Me” that includes Wilson.

The final time a musician was up for entertainer of the 12 months in his first spherical of ACM awards nominations was Billy Ray Cyrus in 1992.

Girls had been ignored of the highest class save for Wilson. Few ladies have been awarded the title: Miranda Lambert obtained it in 2022. In 2020, Carrie Underwood and Thomas Rhett tied for the title, the primary time ever for a tie and the primary time a lady had gained the class since Taylor Swift in 2012.

Additionally nominated for entertainer of the 12 months are Wallen, Kane Brown, Cody Johnson and Chris Stapleton.

In 2021, Wallen was declared ineligible by the ACMs after he was caught on digital camera utilizing a racial slur. In 2022 and 2023, he obtained 4 nominations. On Monday, he was arrested after police say he threw a chair off the rooftop of a newly opened six-story bar in downtown Nashville.

No ladies are nominated within the artist-songwriter of the 12 months and single of the classes. Kelsea Ballerini’s “Rolling Up the Welcome Mat (For Good)” is the one album carried out by a lady within the album of the 12 months class.

It additionally contains Combs’ “Gettin’ Outdated,” Stapleton’s “Greater,” Johnson’s “Leather-based,” and Wallen’s “One Factor at a Time.”

The 2024 ACM Awards will stream on Prime Video and the Amazon Music channel on Twitch Stay Thursday, Might 16 at 8 p.m. EDT. A crimson carpet feed will turn into obtainable on Prime Video, the Amazon Music Channel on Twitch and Amazon Stay at 7 p.m. EDT.