{"id":595264,"date":"2026-09-09T18:58:21","date_gmt":"2026-09-09T18:58:21","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/595264\/"},"modified":"2026-09-09T18:58:21","modified_gmt":"2026-09-09T18:58:21","slug":"2026-cma-awards-nominations-how-to-watch-the-announcement-live","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/595264\/","title":{"rendered":"2026 CMA Awards Nominations: How to Watch the Announcement Live"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"paragraph larva \/\/ lrv-u-margin-lr-auto  lrv-a-font-body-m   \">\n\tCountry music fans can watch the nominations for the 60th annual CMA <a href=\"https:\/\/www.billboard.com\/t\/awards\/\" id=\"auto-tag_awards\" data-tag=\"awards\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Awards<\/a> as they are revealed by\u00a0Good Morning America\u2019s Lara Spencer on the <a rel=\"nofollow noopener\" href=\"https:\/\/www.goodmorningamerica.com\/\" target=\"_blank\">ABC morning show<\/a> on Thursday (Sept. 10).<\/p>\n<p>\t\t\t\t\tExplore\t\t<\/p>\n<p>\t\t\t<a href=\"https:\/\/www.billboard.com\/artist\/ella-langley\/\" class=\"c-lazy-image__link lrv-a-unstyle-link\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\"><\/p>\n<p>\t\t\t\t\t\t<img class=\"c-lazy-image__img lrv-u-background-color-grey-lightest lrv-u-width-100p lrv-u-display-block lrv-u-height-auto\" src=\"https:\/\/www.billboard.com\/wp-content\/themes\/vip\/pmc-billboard-2021\/assets\/public\/lazyload-fallback.gif\" data-lazy-src=\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/09\/ellalangley-0yx-344x344.jpg\" alt=\"\" data-lazy- data-lazy- height=\"\" width=\"\" decoding=\"async\"\/><\/p>\n<p>\t\t\t<\/a><\/p>\n<p>\t\t\t<a href=\"https:\/\/www.billboard.com\/artist\/lainey-wilson\/\" class=\"c-lazy-image__link lrv-a-unstyle-link\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\"><\/p>\n<p>\t\t\t\t\t\t<img class=\"c-lazy-image__img lrv-u-background-color-grey-lightest lrv-u-width-100p lrv-u-display-block lrv-u-height-auto\" src=\"https:\/\/www.billboard.com\/wp-content\/themes\/vip\/pmc-billboard-2021\/assets\/public\/lazyload-fallback.gif\" data-lazy-src=\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/09\/lainey-wilson-wci-344x344.jpg\" alt=\"\" data-lazy- data-lazy- height=\"\" width=\"\" decoding=\"async\"\/><\/p>\n<p>\t\t\t<\/a><\/p>\n<p class=\"c-tagline  a-font-secondary-fancy-xxxs@desktop-xl a-font-secondary-fancy-s@desktop-xl-max lrv-u-text-transform-uppercase lrv-u-color-black u-padding-t-13 lrv-u-padding-b-2 lrv-u-margin-tb-00 lrv-u-text-align-center lrv-u-border-t-1 lrv-u-border-color-black lrv-u-width-100p\">See latest videos, charts and news<\/p>\n<p class=\"paragraph larva \/\/ lrv-u-margin-lr-auto  lrv-a-font-body-m   \">\n\tSpencer will announce nominees in key categories from New York, and then starting at 9 a.m ET\/8 a.m. CT\/6 a.m. PT, <a href=\"https:\/\/www.billboard.com\/artist\/lee-ann-womack\/\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Lee Ann Womack<\/a> and\u00a0American Idol\u00a0season 24 winner Hannah Harper will host a livestream from Nashville on the <a rel=\"noreferrer noopener nofollow\" target=\"_blank\" href=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/live\/lFuXayJFGAk\">CMA YouTube channel<\/a> to announce the full list. Womack certainly can relate to the potential nominees\u2019 nerves, having been nominated 17 times herself. She has taken home six CMA Awards over her career, including for album of the year for There\u2019s More Where That Came From in 2005 and single and song of the year for \u201cI Hope You Dance\u201d in 2000.<\/p>\n<p class=\"paragraph larva \/\/ lrv-u-margin-lr-auto  lrv-a-font-body-m   \">\n\tThe 2026 CMA Awards will take place Nov. 18 from Nashville\u2019s Bridgestone Arena with <a href=\"https:\/\/www.billboard.com\/artist\/lainey-wilson\/\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Lainey Wilson<\/a> <a href=\"https:\/\/www.billboard.com\/music\/awards\/lainey-wilson-host-2026-cma-awards-1236334600\/\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">returning to <a href=\"https:\/\/www.billboard.com\/music\/awards\/lainey-wilson-host-2026-cma-awards-1236334600\/\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">host the third time<\/a>. Wilson is the reigning entertainer of the year, and she\u2019ll likely face stiff competition this year from her four fellow nominees. While the nominations won\u2019t be revealed until Thursday morning, it\u2019s hard to imagine that <a href=\"https:\/\/www.billboard.com\/artist\/ella-langley\/\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Ella Langley<\/a> and her hit song \u201cChoosin\u2019 Texas,\u201d which is spending its <a href=\"https:\/\/www.billboard.com\/lists\/ella-langley-choosin-texas-hot-100-number-one-21st-week\/\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">21st week<\/a> at No. 1 on the <a href=\"https:\/\/www.billboard.com\/charts\/hot-100\/\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Billboard Hot 100<\/a>, won\u2019t be a leading contender.<\/p>\n<p class=\"paragraph larva \/\/ lrv-u-margin-lr-auto  lrv-a-font-body-m   \">\n\tThe CMA Awards will air live on ABC and, for the first time, simultaneously stream on Disney+ and will stream on Hulu the next day.\u00a0 Tickets will go on sale Sept. 18 at 11 a.m. ET. For more details, visit the <a rel=\"nofollow noopener\" href=\"https:\/\/cmaawards.com\/\" target=\"_blank\">CMA <\/a><a href=\"https:\/\/cmaawards.com\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener nofollow\">Awards<\/a><a rel=\"nofollow noopener\" href=\"https:\/\/cmaawards.com\/\" target=\"_blank\">\u2018 website<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Country music fans can watch the nominations for the 60th annual CMA Awards as they are revealed by\u00a0Good&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":595265,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[28],"tags":[10779,156,2525,157,3296,111,139,69,7184],"class_list":["post-595264","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-music","tag-awards","tag-entertainment","tag-genre-country","tag-music","tag-music-news","tag-new-zealand","tag-newzealand","tag-nz","tag-tv-film"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/595264","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=595264"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/595264\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/595265"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=595264"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=595264"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=595264"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}