ACM Awards
winners since
1965

Every winner and nominee from the 1st ACM Awards to the 61st. Pick a year on the ruler, search an artist, song or album, or follow one award category through six decades.

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1971 7th ACM Awards

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Entertainer of the Year

Band of the Year (Non-Touring)

  • Winner Tony Booth Band
  • Nominee Jerry Inman & The Individuals
  • Nominee Sound Company
  • Nominee Starrouters
  • Nominee Tennesseans

Band of the Year (Touring)

  • Winner Strangers
  • Nominee Brazos Valley Boys
  • Nominee Buckaroos
  • Nominee Nashville Brass
  • Nominee Twitty Birds

Country Comedy Act

  • Winner Roy Clark
  • Nominee Ben Colder
  • Nominee Don Bowman
  • Nominee Mel Tillis
  • Nominee Pat Buttram
  • Nominee Sheb Wooley

Top Female Vocalist

Top Male Vocalist

Top Vocal Group

Most Promising Female Vocalist

Most Promising Male Vocalist

Album of the Year

Song of the Year

Single Record of the Year

Bass

  • Winner Larry Booth
  • Nominee Billy Graham
  • Nominee Bob Moore
  • Nominee Dennis Hromek
  • Nominee Doyle Holly

Drums

  • Winner Jerry Wiggins
  • Nominee Archie Francis
  • Nominee Biff Adams
  • Nominee Buddy Harman
  • Nominee Junior Nichols

Fiddle

  • Winner Billy Armstrong
  • Nominee Buddy Spicher
  • Nominee Don Rich
  • Nominee Doug Kershaw
  • Nominee Gordon Terry

Lead Guitar

  • Winner Al Bruno
  • Nominee Chet Atkins
  • Nominee Hershel Witt
  • Nominee Jerry Reed
  • Nominee Roy Clark

Piano

  • Winner Floyd Cramer
  • Nominee Earl Ball
  • Nominee Glen Hardin
  • Nominee Hargus "Pig" Robbins
  • Nominee Jerry Lee Lewis

Steel Guitar

  • Winner J.D. Maness
  • Nominee Hal Rugg
  • Nominee Lloyd Green
  • Nominee Norman Hamlet
  • Nominee Red Rhodes

Disc Jockey of the Year

  • Winner Larry Scott
  • Nominee Bill Mack
  • Nominee Corky Mayberry
  • Nominee Jay Lawrence
  • Nominee Sammy Jackson

Radio Station

  • Winner KLAC - Los Angeles, CA
  • Nominee KBBQ - Burbank, CA
  • Nominee KFOX - Long Beach, CA
  • Nominee KIKK - Houston, TX
  • Nominee WSM - Nashville, TN

Television Personality

  • Winner Glen Campbell
  • Nominee Johnny Cash
  • Nominee Loretta Lynn Loretta Lynn stands as one of the most dynamic and direct songwriters in Coun, try Music history. Her body of work has contributed countless classics, have made an indelible mark on Coun, try Music and has inspired generations of female artists to follow her amazing example. Early originals like “You Ai, n’t Woma, n Eno, ugh” and “Don’t Co, me H, ome A-Dr, inkin’ (With Lo, vin’ on Your Mi, d),” both released in 1966, are undisputed classics. Her catalog also offers chart-topping hits like “Fis, t Ci, ty,” “Ra, ted X” and of course, “C, oal Min, er’s Da, ugh, ter.” Her numerous ACM wins include Entert, ainer of the Ye, ar in 1975 and Artist of the Decade in 1979. A groundbreaking singer, songwriter and performer, Lore, tta L, ynn is an archetype of American music, a singular artist whose music defined a genre and whose songs continue to inform new gener, ations of musicians.
  • Nominee Merle Haggard
  • Nominee Roy Clark

Country Nightclub of the Year

  • Winner Palomino - North Hollywood, CA
  • Nominee Aces Club - City of Industry, CA
  • Nominee Brandin' Iron - San Bernardino, CA
  • Nominee Nashville West - El Monte, CA
  • Nominee Panther Hall - Fort Worth, TX

Jim Reeves Memorial Award

  • Winner Roy Rogers

Man of the Year

  • Winner Walter Knott

Pioneer Award

  • Winner Bob Nolan
  • Winner Stuart Hamblen
  • Winner Tex Williams