Major Awards
List of Academy of Country Music's major awards| Year | Entertainer of the Year | Top Male Vocalist | Top Female Vocalist | Song of the Year |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2011 | Taylor Swift | Blake Shelton | Miranda Lambert | Lee Brice, Liz Rose – "Crazy Girl" |
| 2010 | Taylor Swift | Brad Paisley | Miranda Lambert | Tom Douglas, Allen Shamblin – "The House That Built Me" |
| 2009 | Carrie Underwood | Brad Paisley | Miranda Lambert | Dave Haywood, Josh Kear, Charles Kelley, Hillary Scott – "Need You Now" |
| 2008 | Carrie Underwood | Brad Paisley | Carrie Underwood | Jamey Johnson, Lee Thomas Miller, James Otto – "In Color" |
| 2007 | Kenny Chesney | Brad Paisley | Carrie Underwood | Jennifer Nettles – "Stay" |
| 2006 | Kenny Chesney | Brad Paisley | Carrie Underwood | Bill Anderson, Buddy Cannon, Jamey Johnson – "Give It Away" |
| 2005 | Kenny Chesney | Keith Urban | Sara Evans | Craig Wiseman, Ronnie Dunn – "Believe" |
| 2004 | Kenny Chesney | Keith Urban | Gretchen Wilson | Craig Wiseman, Tim Nichols – "Live Like You Were Dying" |
| 2003 | Toby Keith | Toby Keith | Martina McBride | Doug Johnson, Kim Williams – "Three Wooden Crosses" |
| 2002 | Toby Keith | Kenny Chesney | Martina McBride | Phillip Brian White, David Vincent Williams – "I'm Movin' On" |
| 2001 | Brooks & Dunn | Alan Jackson | Martina McBride | Alan Jackson – "Where Were You (When the World Stopped Turning)" |
| 2000 | Dixie Chicks | Toby Keith | Faith Hill | Mark D. Sanders, Tia Sillers – "I Hope You Dance" |
| 1999 | Shania Twain | Tim McGraw | Faith Hill | Marv Green, Aimee Mayo – "Amazed" |
| 1998 | Garth Brooks | Tim McGraw | Faith Hill | Steve Wariner, Billy Kirsch – "Holes in the Floor of Heaven" |
| 1997 | Garth Brooks | George Strait | Trisha Yearwood | Stephony Smith – "It's Your Love" |
| 1996 | Brooks & Dunn | George Strait | Patty Loveless | Bill Mack – "Blue" |
| 1995 | Brooks & Dunn | Alan Jackson | Patty Loveless | Dickey Lee, Karen Staley, Danny Mayo – "The Keeper of the Stars" |
| 1994 | Reba McEntire | Alan Jackson | Reba McEntire | Gary Baker, Frank J. Myers – "I Swear" |
| 1993 | Garth Brooks | Vince Gill | Wynonna Judd | Victoria Shaw, Chuck Cannon – "I Love the Way You Love Me" |
| 1992 | Garth Brooks | Vince Gill | Mary Chapin Carpenter | Vince Gill, John Barlow Jarvis – "I Still Believe in You" |
| 1991 | Garth Brooks | Garth Brooks | Reba McEntire | Billy Dean, Richard Leigh – "Somewhere in My Broken Heart" |
| 1990 | Garth Brooks | Garth Brooks | Reba McEntire | Tony Arata – "The Dance" |
| 1989 | George Strait | Clint Black | Kathy Mattea | Jon Vezner, Don Henry – "Where've You Been" |
| 1988 | Hank Williams, Jr. | George Strait | K. T. Oslin | Charles Gene Nelson, Paul Nelson – "Eighteen Wheels and a Dozen Roses" |
| 1987 | Hank Williams, Jr. | Randy Travis | Reba McEntire | Paul Overstreet, Don Schlitz – "Forever and Ever, Amen" |
| 1986 | Hank Williams, Jr. | Randy Travis | Reba McEntire | Paul Overstreet, Don Schlitz – "On the Other Hand" |
| 1985 | Alabama | George Strait | Reba McEntire | Fred Parris, Mike Reid, Troy Seals – "Lost in the Fifties Tonight" |
| 1984 | Alabama | George Strait | Reba McEntire | Harlan Howard, Brent Maher, Sonny Throckmorton – "Why Not Me" |
| 1983 | Alabama | Lee Greenwood | Janie Fricke | Larry Henley, Jeff Silbar – "Wind Beneath My Wings" |
| 1982 | Alabama | Ronnie Milsap | Sylvia | Merle Haggard – "Are the Good Times Really Over (I Wish a Buck Was Still Silver)" |
| 1981 | Alabama | Merle Haggard | Barbara Mandrell | Felice Bryant, Boudleaux Bryant, Larry Collins, Sandy Pinkard – "You're the Reason God Made Oklahoma" |
| 1980 | Barbara Mandrell | George Jones | Dolly Parton | Bobby Braddock, Curly Putman – "He Stopped Loving Her Today" |
| 1979 | Willie Nelson | Larry Gatlin | Crystal Gayle | Sonny Throckmorton, Curly Putman – "It's a Cheating Situation" |
| 1978 | Kenny Rogers | Kenny Rogers | Barbara Mandrell | Randy Goodrum – "You Needed Me" |
| 1977 | Dolly Parton | Kenny Rogers | Crystal Gayle | Roger Bowling, Hal Bynum – "Lucille" |
| 1976 | Mickey Gilley | Mickey Gilley | Crystal Gayle | Baker Knight – "Don't the Girls All Get Prettier at Closing Time" |
| 1975 | Loretta Lynn | Conway Twitty | Loretta Lynn | Larry Weiss – "Rhinestone Cowboy" |
| 1974 | Mac Davis | Merle Haggard | Loretta Lynn | Don Wayne – "Country Bumpkin" |
| 1973 | Roy Clark | Charlie Rich | Loretta Lynn | Kenny O'Dell – "Behind Closed Doors" |
| 1972 | Roy Clark | Merle Haggard | Donna Fargo | Donna Fargo – "The Happiest Girl In the Whole USA" |
| 1971 | Freddie Hart | Freddie Hart | Loretta Lynn | Freddie Hart – "Easy Loving" |
| 1970 | Merle Haggard | Merle Haggard | Lynn Anderson | Kris Kristofferson – "For the Good Times" |
| 1969 | — | Merle Haggard | Tammy Wynette | — |
| 1968 | — | Glen Campbell | Cathie Taylor | — |
| 1967 | — | Glen Campbell | Lynn Anderson | — |
| 1966 | — | Merle Haggard | Bonnie Guitar | — |
| 1965 | — | Buck Owens | Bonnie Owens | — |
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