Miranda Lambert, the Texas-born songwriting force and high-impact performer, received seven nominations for “The 60th Annual CMA Awards,” making her the second-most nominated artist for 2026 and increasing her tally as the most-nominated female artist of all time with 70 career nods. Beyond making history with her record-breaking 19th Female Vocalist of the Year nomination, she received a pair of Musical Event nominations for the double GRAMMY nominated “A Song To Sing” with Chris Stapleton and the recently released “Horses and Divorces” with Kacey Musgraves.
“When they told me it was the record, I was a little emotional,” Lambert admits. “Having always challenged myself to reach further, write or find better songs – to really make music that spoke to other women where they were, but anyone wherever, however they were living their life and needed a song to sing – it hit me both how long I’ve been doing this and how many great songs I’ve been blessed to be a part of. It’s the greatest honor to know this music hits people in the heart.”
Beyond her own music, Lambert’s role as co-writer and co-producer for Ella Langley yielded not only 2026’s biggest song in any genre, “Choosin’ Texas,” but it helped Langley become this year’s most-nominated artist overall. Lambert shares nominations in the Album category for Dandelion and Single for both “Choosin’ Texas” and “Be Her” with Langley and fellow producer Ben West. Lambert also receives a Song of the Year nomination for co-writing “Choosin’ Texas” with Langley, Luke Dick and Joybeth Taylor.
“I still have a hard time believing that the thing I started doing because I loved it became my career,” marveled Lambert following this morning’s announcement. “After all these years, getting to have firsts – to step into something new, help another artist bring their vision to life and discover something I haven’t done before – keeps it exciting and inspiring for me. These nominations are special because they remind me there are still ways to be inspired and help create something I’m proud of with people I believe in.”
Having started singing in bars as a 16-year-old in braids, Lambert built her swagger-forward country on songwriter-driven legends including Willie Nelson, Waylon Jennings and David Allan Coe, while absorbing the detailed emotional storytelling of John Prine, Guy Clark and Emmylou Harris. The most-awarded woman in CMA history, Lambert forged a style that merged honest Texas bar-room aesthetics with a sensitivity to hard places that gave her headlong bravado real meaning.
Having won two Album of the Year Awards – 2010 for Revolution and 2014 for Platinum, as well as Song and Single of the Year among plenty, keeping her focus on the music has driven the woman who created the Pistol Annies with friends Ashley Monroe and Angaleena Presley, recorded myriad duets with everyone from Loretta Lynn and Sheryl Crow, Keith Urban, Carrie Underwood to Prine, Dierks Bentley, Little Big Town, as well as Don Henley and Mick Jagger, then started Big Loud Texas with friend Jon Randall to establish a label for Texas artists to protect their roots and establish careers that would sustain them.
And with all that, she’s just finished Crisco, inspired by the disco-meets-country boom that defined a slice of Texas country in the ‘70s and ‘80s. The eagerly anticipated Oct. 2 release, which features the Stapleton duet plus “Sunset Marquis,” the theme from the documentary “If These Walls Could Rock” about the legendary hotel, was one of The New York Times’ “34 Albums and Shows We’re Looking Forward to This Fall” selections. Lead critic Jon Pareles praised the album, “which leans toward the retro and the countrypolitan, complete with string arrangements, for a knowingly nostalgic sound and attitude.”
The 60th annual CMA Awards will broadcast live from Nashville’s Bridgestone Arena Wednesday, Nov. 18 at 8 p.m. ET on ABC, Disney+ and next day on Hulu.
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