9 Sony Music Artists Account for 25% of 2017 CMA Awards Nominations,
Including Most-Nominated Miranda Lambert
Nashville, Tennessee – Sony Music Nashville dominates the Billboard Top Country Albums this week by achieving 3 of the Top 4 positions on the chart, an unprecedented feat for the label group. Old Dominion’s sophomore album Happy Endings (RCA Nashville) debuts at #1, followed by Luke Combs’ debut album This One’s For You (River House Artists/Columbia Nashville) at #2 and Kane Brown’s self-titled debut album (RCA Nashville/Zone 4) at #4. This historical 3 of the Top 4 alignment is the first since Sony Music Nashville embraced Columbia, RCA and Arista Nashville imprints as a unified label group in April 2006.
Concurrently, Sony Music Nashville landed 3 of the Top 4 albums on the HITS Country Album Chart powered by BuzzAngle, another first for the SMN label group. The line-up is Old Dominion’s Happy Endings at #1, Luke Comb’s This One’s For You at #2 and Kane Brown’s self-titled album at #4.
Extending SMN’s positive news this week, the 2017 CMA Awards final nominations were announced Monday and 9 Sony Music acts accounted for 25% of the total nods. Vanner Records/RCA Nashville’s Miranda Lambert was most-nominated with 5, including Female, Album for The Weight of These Wings , Single and Song for “Tin Man” and Music Video for “Vice.” Columbia Nashville hitmaker Maren Morris, last year’s CMA New Artist of the Year winner, received 3 nods, including Female and Music Video and Musical Event for “Craving You” with Thomas Rhett. Group and New Artist were the two nominations RCA Nashville’s Old Dominion garnered. And, concluding the list of Sony Music nominees, each receiving one nod, are first-time nominee River House Artists/Columbia Nashville’s Luke Combs (New Artist), Arista Nashville’s Tim McGraw and Faith Hill (Musical Event for “Speak to a Girl”), Blue Chair/Columbia Nashville’s Kenny Chesney and RCA New York’s P!nk (Musical Event for “Setting the World on Fire”) and Sony Legacy’s Willie Nelson (“Funny How Time Slips Away” with Glen Campbell).