The finalists for the 2024 Billboard Music Awards have been revealed and two of the top three are country music stars. What may even be a bigger surprise is that Taylor Swift is not at the top of the list!
Zach Bryan is at the top of the finalist list this year with 21 nominations for Billboard Music Awards. Taylor Swift comes in at second with 17 followed by Morgan Wallen with 11 nominations. All three artists are nominated for awards in their genres and in all-genre categories as well. They are all in the running for the night’s biggest award, Top Artist.
The 2024 Billboard Music Awards will be hosted by comedian Michelle Buteau and airs live on Fox and Paramount+ December 12th.
Below are the categories that include at least one country artist as a finalist. You can see the complete list of finalists at deadline.com.
| Top Artist Zach Bryan Sabrina Carpenter Drake Taylor Swift Morgan Wallen | Top New Artist Benson Boone Tommy Richman Chappell Roan Shaboozey Teddy Swims |
| Top Male Artist Zach Bryan Luke Combs Drake Post Malone Morgan Wallen | Top Billboard 200 Artist Zach Bryan Drake Taylor Swift SZA Morgan Wallen |
| Top Hot 100 Artist Zach Bryan Sabrina Carpenter Billie Eilish Taylor Swift Morgan Wallen | Top Hot 100 Songwriter Amy Allen Jack Antonoff Zach Bryan Kendrick Lamar Taylor Swift |
| Top Streaming Songs Artist Zach Bryan Sabrina Carpenter Kendrick Lamar Taylor Swift Morgan Wallen | Top Radio Songs Artist Sabrina Carpenter Doja Cat Taylor Swift SZA Morgan Wallen |
| Top Song Sales Artist Jelly Roll Jung Kook Shaboozey Taylor Swift Teddy Swims | Top Country Artist Zach Bryan Luke Combs Post Malone Chris Stapleton Morgan Wallen |
| Top Country Male Artist Zach Bryan Luke Combs Morgan Wallen | Top Country Female Artist Beyoncé Megan Moroney Lainey Wilson |
| Top Country Duo/Group Zac Brown Band The Red Clay Strays Treaty Oak Revival | Top Country Touring Artist Zach Bryan Kenny Chesney Luke Combs |
| Top Rock Artist Zach Bryan Hozier Jelly Roll Noah Kahan Linkin Park | Top Billboard 200 Album Zach Bryan “Zach Bryan” Drake “For All The Dogs” Noah Kahan “Stick Season” Taylor Swift “1989 (Taylor’s Version)” Taylor Swift “The Tortured Poets Department” |
| Top Country Album Beyoncé “Cowboy Carter” Zach Bryan “The Great American Bar Scene” Zach Bryan “Zach Bryan” Chris Stapleton “Higher” Bailey Zimmerman “Religiously. The Album.” | |
| Top Rock Album Zach Bryan “The Great American Bar Scene” Zach Bryan “Zach Bryan” Hozier “Unheard (EP)” Noah Kahan “Stick Season” Dolly Parton “Rockstar” | |
| Top Hot 100 Song Benson Boone “Beautiful Things” Jack Harlow “Lovin on Me” Post Malone ft. Morgan Wallen “I Had Some Help” Shaboozey “A Bar Song (Tipsy)” Teddy Swims “Lose Control” Top Streaming Song Zach Bryan ft. Kacey Musgraves “I Remember Everything” Kendrick Lamar “Not Like Us” Post Malone ft. Morgan Wallen “I Had Some Help” Shaboozey “A Bar Song (Tipsy)” Teddy Swims “Lose Control” | |
| Top Selling Song Benson Boone “Beautiful Things” Jung Kook “Standing Next to You” Post Malone ft. Morgan Wallen “I Had Some Help” Shaboozey “A Bar Song (Tipsy)” Teddy Swims “Lose Control” | |
| Top Collaboration Zach Bryan ft. Kacey Musgraves “I Remember Everything” Future, Metro Boomin & Kendrick Lamar “Like That” Post Malone ft. Morgan Wallen “I Had Some Help” Taylor Swift ft. Post Malone “Fortnight” Morgan Wallen ft. ERNEST “Cowgirls” | |
| Top Country Song Zach Bryan ft. Kacey Musgraves “I Remember Everything” Dasha “Austin” Post Malone ft. Morgan Wallen “I Had Some Help” Shaboozey “A Bar Song (Tipsy)” Morgan Wallen “Thinkin’ Bout Me” | |
| Top Rock Song Zach Bryan “Pink Skies” Zach Bryan ft. Kacey Musgraves “I Remember Everything” Djo “End of Beginning” Hozier “Too Sweet” Noah Kahan “Stick Season” |
By: Buck Stevens
