AMERICANALMANAC (Alan Benson) - Ella Langley dominates 2026 CMA Awards nominations with nine nods
Ella Langley earned a field-leading nine nominations for the 60th annual Country Music Association Awards, pulling ahead of her mentor Miranda Lambert and staking her claim as country music's most dominant young artist. The Country Music Association announced the nominations Thursday from New York, and Langley's haul touched nearly every major category. She picked up […] The post Ella Langley dominates 2026 CMA Awards nominations with nine nods appeared first on American Almanac .
Ella Langley earned a field-leading nine nominations for the 60th annual Country Music Association Awards, pulling ahead of her mentor Miranda Lambert and staking her claim as country music's most dominant young artist. The Country Music Association announced the nominations Thursday from New York, and Langley's haul touched nearly every major category. She picked up a nomination for entertainer of the year, the genre's most coveted prize, along with two single of the year nods for "Be Her" and "Choosin' Texas," an album of the year nomination for "Dandelion," and two song of the year nominations for the same pair of singles. Lambert followed with six nominations, Kacey Musgraves and Ben West earned five each, and Cody Johnson, Chris…Open