Lambert grabs seven CMA nods

Country star Miranda Lambert turns her "Wildcard" into an ace as she's the leading nominee at the 2020 Country Music Association Awards, including her first entertainer of the year nomination in five years.

The CMAs announced Tuesday that Lambert earned seven nominations. The Grammy winner was pushed by the success of songs like "Bluebird," her first country airplay No. 1 in years, as well as positive reviews of her smart and sassy "Wildcard" album. Lambert — who has won 13 CMAs throughout her career — makes history this year, breaking the record for most nominations by a female artist with 55 overall nods.

She's followed by Luke Combs, who continues his streak of success as one of country music's biggest streaming artists with six nominations, including his first for entertainer of the year. Combs earned his first all-genre No. 1 album last year with "What You See Is What You Get," which had the largest streaming week ever for a country album with 74 million on-demand streams.

"It's pretty crazy. It's been shocking to say the least," Combs said of his entertainer of the year nod, which comes two years after he was named new artist of the year. "You're kind of up in the big leagues."

Carrie Underwood joins Combs and Lambert in the entertainer of the year category, along with Keith Urban and Eric Church. Garth Brooks, who won last year, recently announced he no longer wanted to be nominated for entertainer of the year because it was time for others to win.

Combs' nominations include album, single and male vocalist of the year. He's nominated twice in the song of the year category for his own track, "Even Though I'm Leaving," and for co-writing the Carly Pearce-Lee Brice duet "I Hope You're Happy Now."

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