ACM Awards Voting Closed 6 Months Before the Winners Will Be Announced: How Will That Impact Who Wins?
(WorldNews Music)

Maren Morris` “The Bones" wasn`t nominated for single or song of the year. It broke a little too late to have its full impact felt before the nominations were announced on Feb. 27. If 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...