{"id":489886,"date":"2026-05-18T00:41:10","date_gmt":"2026-05-18T00:41:10","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/489886\/"},"modified":"2026-05-18T00:41:10","modified_gmt":"2026-05-18T00:41:10","slug":"why-megan-moroney-is-skipping-the-acm-awards","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/489886\/","title":{"rendered":"Why Megan Moroney Is Skipping the ACM Awards"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"mb-4 text-lg md:leading-8 break-words\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.tvinsider.com\/people\/megan-moroney\/\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\" data-ylk=\"elm:link;elmt:article_link;slk:Megan Moroney;itc:0;sec:content-canvas\" data-yga=\"{&quot;yLinkElement&quot;:&quot;context_link&quot;,&quot;yModuleName&quot;:&quot;content-canvas&quot;,&quot;yLinkText&quot;:&quot;Megan Moroney&quot;}\" class=\"link \">Megan Moroney<\/a> is the <a href=\"https:\/\/www.yahoo.com\/entertainment\/music\/articles\/full-list-2026-acm-awards-135603659.html\" data-ylk=\"elm:link;elmt:article_link;slk:most-nominated artist;itc:0;sec:content-canvas;outcm:mb_qualified_link;_E:mb_qualified_link;ct:story;\" data-yga=\"{&quot;yLinkElement&quot;:&quot;context_link&quot;,&quot;yModuleName&quot;:&quot;content-canvas&quot;,&quot;yLinkText&quot;:&quot;most-nominated artist&quot;}\" class=\"link  yahoo-link\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">most-nominated artist<\/a> of the night at the 2026 <a href=\"https:\/\/www.tvinsider.com\/show\/academy-of-country-music-awards\/\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\" data-ylk=\"elm:link;elmt:article_link;slk:Academy of Country Music Awards;itc:0;sec:content-canvas\" data-yga=\"{&quot;yLinkElement&quot;:&quot;context_link&quot;,&quot;yModuleName&quot;:&quot;content-canvas&quot;,&quot;yLinkText&quot;:&quot;Academy of Country Music Awards&quot;}\" class=\"link \">Academy of Country Music Awards<\/a>, but she won\u2019t be attending the show. Ahead of the ceremony on May 17, the country singer explained the reason for her absence via her <a href=\"https:\/\/www.instagram.com\/megmoroney\/?hl=en\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\" data-ylk=\"elm:link;elmt:article_link;slk:Instagram;itc:0;sec:content-canvas\" data-yga=\"{&quot;yLinkElement&quot;:&quot;context_link&quot;,&quot;yModuleName&quot;:&quot;content-canvas&quot;,&quot;yLinkText&quot;:&quot;Instagram&quot;}\" class=\"link \">Instagram<\/a> Story.<\/p>\n<p class=\"mb-4 text-lg md:leading-8 break-words\">It turns out a prior commitment is keeping Moroney from the awards show in Las Vegas: her best friend\u2019s wedding! Moroney is the maid of honor at the wedding, so that will be taking priority.<\/p>\n<p class=\"mb-4 text-lg md:leading-8 break-words\">\u201cI\u2019m honored to be nominated tonight at @acmawards &amp; I\u2019m rooting on all my friends from afar!\u201d Moroney wrote. \u201cI\u2019m out of the country this week on MOH duty to get my best friend married. I [heart] you guys and can\u2019t wait to see y\u2019all in columbus! Counting down the days.\u201d<\/p>\n<p class=\"mb-4 text-lg md:leading-8 break-words\">Moroney\u2019s Cloud 9 tour kicks off in Columbus, Ohio, on May 29. She released her album of the same name in February. The tour ends its U.S. leg on August 22 in Nashville, then heads overseas for a Europe run in September before concluding on October 1 in the U.K.<\/p>\n<p class=\"mb-4 text-lg md:leading-8 break-words\">At the ACM Awards, Moroney scored eight nominations, the most of any artist. She\u2019s up for Entertainer of the Year, Female Artist of the Year, Single of the Year (\u201c6 Months Later\u201d), Song of the Year (\u201cAm I Okay?\u201d), Artist-Songwriter of the Year, Visual Media of the Year (\u201c6 Months Later\u201d), and Music Event of the Year (\u201cYou Had to Be There\u201d with <a href=\"https:\/\/www.tvinsider.com\/people\/kenny-chesney\/\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\" data-ylk=\"elm:link;elmt:article_link;slk:Kenny Chesney;itc:0;sec:content-canvas\" data-yga=\"{&quot;yLinkElement&quot;:&quot;context_link&quot;,&quot;yModuleName&quot;:&quot;content-canvas&quot;,&quot;yLinkText&quot;:&quot;Kenny Chesney&quot;}\" class=\"link \">Kenny Chesney<\/a>).<\/p>\n<p class=\"mb-4 text-lg md:leading-8 break-words\">Ahead of the show, it was announced that <a href=\"https:\/\/www.tvinsider.com\/people\/ella-langley\/\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\" data-ylk=\"elm:link;elmt:article_link;slk:Ella Langley;itc:0;sec:content-canvas\" data-yga=\"{&quot;yLinkElement&quot;:&quot;context_link&quot;,&quot;yModuleName&quot;:&quot;content-canvas&quot;,&quot;yLinkText&quot;:&quot;Ella Langley&quot;}\" class=\"link \">Ella Langley<\/a> won the Artist-Songwriter award, and Stephen Wilson Jr. took home Visual Media for \u201cCuckoo.\u201d The rest of Moroney\u2019s categories will be announced during the ceremony, which is hosted by <a href=\"https:\/\/www.tvinsider.com\/people\/shania-twain\/\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\" data-ylk=\"elm:link;elmt:article_link;slk:Shania Twain;itc:0;sec:content-canvas\" data-yga=\"{&quot;yLinkElement&quot;:&quot;context_link&quot;,&quot;yModuleName&quot;:&quot;content-canvas&quot;,&quot;yLinkText&quot;:&quot;Shania Twain&quot;}\" class=\"link \">Shania Twain<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p class=\"mb-4 text-lg md:leading-8 break-words\">Moroney previously won New Female Artist of the Year at the 2024 ACM Awards. She\u2019s also been nominated seven other times before this year.<\/p>\n<p class=\"mb-4 text-lg md:leading-8 break-words\"><strong>Academy of Country Music Awards 2026, Sunday, May 17, 8\/7c, Prime Video<\/strong><\/p>\n<p class=\"mb-4 text-lg md:leading-8 break-words\">Read the latest entertainment news on <a href=\"https:\/\/www.tvinsider.com\/\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\" data-ylk=\"elm:link;elmt:article_link;slk:TV Insider;itc:0;sec:content-canvas\" data-yga=\"{&quot;yLinkElement&quot;:&quot;context_link&quot;,&quot;yModuleName&quot;:&quot;content-canvas&quot;,&quot;yLinkText&quot;:&quot;TV Insider&quot;}\" class=\"link \">TV Insider<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p><script async src=\"\/\/www.instagram.com\/embed.js\"><\/script><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Megan Moroney is the most-nominated artist of the night at the 2026 Academy of Country Music Awards, but&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":489887,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[264],"tags":[201188,21953,18,117,19,17,37794,337,213802],"class_list":{"0":"post-489886","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-music","8":"tag-acm-awards","9":"tag-cma-awards","10":"tag-eire","11":"tag-entertainment","12":"tag-ie","13":"tag-ireland","14":"tag-megan-moroney","15":"tag-music","16":"tag-music-city-center"},"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/pubeurope.com\/@ie\/116592803054483116","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/489886","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=489886"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/489886\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/489887"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=489886"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=489886"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=489886"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}