Laney Wilson was honored as Celebrity Artist of the Year at the 2024 ACM Awards, produced by Dick Clark Productions, held at the Ford Center at The Star in Frisco, Texas on Thursday night (May 16).
After enjoying a laugh at their own expense, noting that they had won the award 40 years earlier, the Alabama country greats presented the award to a shocked Wilson. “These past few years for us have just been a complete whirlwind,” said Mr Advertising sign cover star, clearly choking back tears. “I've been in Nashville 13 years doing this.”
She wants to tell the crowd a memory from her childhood: “I remember being a little girl and climbing to the top of the roof,” she began. “I would count all the stars and watch the planes fly over our town of 200 and dream of being in one of those planes.” She continued: “The funny thing is, I still feel like that little girl… I'm still looking at the stars, but I'm a little more even with them now.”
The win was Wilson's third of the night, after earlier in the evening she also took home female artist of the year and event of the year, the latter for her Jelly Roll duet “Save Me.” She also kicked off the awards with a cover of Little Texas' “God Blessed Texas” that turned into her own “Hang Tight Honey.”
It was the first time Wilson was nominated in the artist of the year category — making her the first winner to triumph in her first nomination since Thomas Rhett, when he shared the honors with Carrie Underwood in 2020.
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