Country music will have a very strong showing at this year’s Billboard Music Awards.
The show includes artists from across all musical genres, and honors the year’s hottest names in music determined by year-end performance metrics on the Billboard charts.
And Morgan Wallen, Zach Bryan, and Luke Combs are all nominated in multiple categories, after all three respectively crushed it at both country radio, and on the Billboard all-genre chart, from the year they dated tracking dates November 4th, 2022 through October 12th, 2023.
Morgan and Luke both scored multiple #1’s at country radio in the past year, with all three of them charting on the all-genre chart as Zach and Morgan had #1 hits, and Luke came extremely close when “Fast Car” peaked at #2.
Morgan is actually the leading male finalist this year, as he’s up for 16 awards including Top Artist, Top Male Artist, Top Billboard 200 Artist, and Top Hot 100 Artist.
His album One Thing At A Time is up for two awards, while his song “Last Night” is up for three awards, including Top Hot 100 Song, after it spent 16 nonconsecutive weeks at No. 1 on the all-genre Billboard Hot 100.
Zach Bryan is a first-time finalist up for 13 awards, including Top New Artist, Top Male Artist, Top Hot 100 Songwriter, and Top Streaming Songs Artist, and even a few awards in the “Rock” category.
His song “Something in the Orange” is a finalist for three awards, including Top Streaming Song, Top Country Song, and twice in the Top Rock Song category.
And lastly, Luke is up for 10 awards, including Top Male Artist, Top Country Album, Top Country Male Artist and Top Hot 100 Artist.
Other nominated country artists include George Strait, Jelly Roll (also nominated in both “Rock” and “Country”), Oliver Anthony, Hardy, Bailey Zimmerman, Lainey Wilson, Megan Moroney and more. Songwriter Ashley Gorley and Producer Joey Moi are nominated, as well.
This year’s Billboard award show will take place on November 19th, and you can watch it live on NBC. The event will also be available to stream on Peacock. Presenters and performers will be announced in the coming weeks.
And while, sure, this award show really doesn’t mean anything, it does go to show how many people all over the world are listening to country music right now in comparison to global superstars like Bad Bunny, SZA, Taylor Swift and Drake, which is pretty cool.
Zach, Luke and Morgan are up there with all of them, and unlike country award shows in the CMA’s and ACM’s, which are voted by industry people, these are purely based on Billboard’s chart metrics.
You can see the full list of country artists nominated below.
Top Artist
Drake
Luke Combs
Morgan Wallen
SZA
Taylor Swift
Top New Artist
Bailey Zimmerman
Ice Spice
Jelly Roll
Peso Pluma
Zach Bryan
Top Male Artist
Drake
Luke Combs
Morgan Wallen
The Weeknd
Zach Bryan
Top Billboard 200 Artist
Drake
Luke Combs
Morgan Wallen
SZA
Taylor Swift
Top Hot 100 Artist
Drake
Luke Combs
Morgan Wallen
SZA
Taylor Swift
Top Hot 100 Songwriter (NEW)
Ashley Gorley
Jack Antonoff
SZA
Taylor Swift
Zach Bryan
Top Hot 100 Producer (NEW)
Jack Antonoff
Joey Moi
Metro Boomin
Taylor Swift
Zach Bryan
Top Streaming Songs Artist
Drake
Morgan Wallen
SZA
Taylor Swift
Zach Bryan
Top Radio Songs Artist
Miley Cyrus
Morgan Wallen
SZA
Taylor Swift
The Weeknd
Top Song Sales Artist
Jason Aldean
Miley Cyrus
Morgan Wallen
Oliver Anthony Music
Taylor Swift
Top Billboard Global 200 Artist
Bad Bunny
Morgan Wallen
SZA
Taylor Swift
The Weeknd
Top Country Artist
Bailey Zimmerman
Luke Combs
Morgan Wallen
Taylor Swift
Zach Bryan
Top Country Male Artist
Luke Combs
Morgan Wallen
Zach Bryan
Top Country Female Artist
Lainey Wilson
Megan Moroney
Taylor Swift
Top Country Duo/Group
Old Dominion
Parmalee
Zac Brown Band
Top Country Touring Artist
George Strait
Luke Combs
Morgan Wallen
Top Rock Artist
Jelly Roll
Noah Kahan
Stephen Sanchez
Steve Lacy
Zach Bryan
Top Billboard 200 Album
Drake & 21 Savage “Her Loss”
Metro Boomin “HEROES & VILLAINS”
Morgan Wallen “One Thing At A Time”
SZA “SOS”
Taylor Swift “Midnights”
Top Country Album
Luke Combs “Gettin’ Old”
Luke Combs “Growin’ Up”
Morgan Wallen “One Thing At A Time”
Taylor Swift “Speak Now (Taylor’s Version)”
Zach Bryan “American Heartbreak”
Top Rock Album
HARDY “the mockingbird & THE CROW”
Jelly Roll “Whitsitt Chapel”
Noah Kahan “Stick Season”
Steve Lacy “Gemini Rights”
Zach Bryan “American Heartbreak”
Top Hot 100 Song
Metro Boomin, The Weeknd & 21 Savage “Creepin’”
Miley Cyrus “Flowers”
Morgan Wallen “Last Night”
SZA “Kill Bill”
Taylor Swift “Anti-Hero”
Top Streaming Song
Miley Cyrus “Flowers”
Morgan Wallen “Last Night”
SZA “Kill Bill”
Taylor Swift “Anti-Hero”
Zach Bryan “Something in the Orange”
Top Selling Song
Jason Aldean “Try That in a Small Town”
Jimin ‘Like Crazy”
Miley Cyrus “Flowers”
Oliver Anthony Music “Rich Men North of Richmond”
Taylor Swift “Anti-Hero”
Top Country Song
Bailey Zimmerman “Rock and a Hard Place”
Luke Combs “Fast Car”
Morgan Wallen “Last Night”
Morgan Wallen “You Proof”
Zach Bryan “Something in the Orange”
Top Rock Song
Jelly Roll “Need A Favor”
Stephen Sanchez “Until I Found You”
Steve Lacy “Bad Habit”
Zach Bryan ft. Kacey Musgraves “I Remember Everything”
Zach Bryan “Something in the Orange”
