Carrie Underwood is named entertainer of the year at the ACM Awards on Sept. 16—and she very well may be—a contributing reason could be that the voting period was so long ago—March 3-11.
The winners were to be announced on April 5, but the show was postponed 5-1/2 months because of the COVID-19 pandemic.Underwood has kept a fairly low profile this year, working on a Christmas album, My Gift, which is due Sept.
15. Her most recent studio album, Cry Pretty, was released in September 2018. It yielded four big country hits, but the last one, “Drinking Alone,” was released in November 2019.By contrast, Underwood’s four rivals for entertainer of the year -- Luke Bryan, Eric Church, Luke Combs and Thomas Rhett--have all had No.
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