Academy of Country Music Award for Album of the Year

The Academy of Country Music Award for Album of the Year is a competitive category presented at the Academy of Country Music Awards. The following is the list of winners, with the year representing the nominated work.

Recipients

YearWinnerArtist(s)Nominees2026 Parker McCollumParker McCollum Ain’t In It For My Health — Zach Top Cherry Valley — Carter Faith Don't Mind If I Do (Deluxe) — Riley Green I’m the Problem — Morgan Wallen2025 Whirlwind Lainey Wilson Am I Okay? (I’ll Be Fine) — Megan Moroney Beautifully Broken — Jelly Roll Cold Beer & Country Music — Zach Top F-1 Trillion — Post Malone2024 HigherChris Stapleton Gettin' Old – Luke Combs Leather – Cody Johnson One Thing at a Time – Morgan Wallen Rolling Up the Welcome Mat (For Good) – Kelsea Ballerini2023 Bell Bottom CountryLainey Wilson Ashley McBryde Presents: Lindeville — Ashley McBryde Growin' Up — Luke Combs Mr. Saturday Night — Jon Pardi Palomino — Miranda Lambert2022 Dangerous: The Double AlbumMorgan Wallen 29: Written in Stone — Carly Pearce Country Again: Side A — Thomas Rhett Famous Friends — Chris Young The Marfa Tapes — Miranda Lambert, Jack Ingram, Jon Randall2021 Starting OverChris Stapleton Born Here Live Here Die Here — Luke Bryan Mixtape Vol. 1 — Kane Brown Never Will — Ashley McBryde Skeletons — Brothers Osborne2020 What You See Is What You Get Luke CombsCenter Point Road — Thomas Rhett Girl — Maren Morris Heartache Medication — Jon Pardi Wildcard — Miranda Lambert2019 Golden HourKacey MusgravesDan + Shay — Dan + Shay Desperate Man — Eric Church From A Room: Volume 2 — Chris Stapleton The Mountain — Dierks Bentley2018 From A Room: Volume 1Chris StapletonThe Breaker — Little Big Town California Sunrise — Jon Pardi Happy Endings — Old Dominion Life Changes — Thomas Rhett2017 The Weight of These Wings Miranda LambertBlack — Dierks Bentley Dig Your Roots — Florida Georgia Line Hero - Maren Morris Ripcord — Keith Urban2016 TravellerChris StapletonI'm Comin' Over — Chris Young Montevallo — Sam Hunt Mr. Misunderstood — Eric Church Tangled Up — Thomas Rhett2015 Platinum Miranda LambertOld Boots, New Dirt — Jason Aldean Pain Killer — Little Big Town Riser — Dierks Bentley The Outsiders — Eric Church2014 Same Trailer Different ParkKacey MusgravesBased on a True Story... — Blake Shelton Crash My Party — Luke Bryan Here's to the Good Times — Florida Georgia Line Two Lanes of Freedom — Tim McGraw2013 Chief Eric ChurchBlown Away — Carrie Underwood Red — Taylor Swift Tailgates & Tanlines — Luke Bryan Tornado — Little Big Town2012 Four the Record Miranda Lambert Chief — Eric Church Hemingway’s Whiskey — Kenny Chesney My Kinda Party — Jason Aldean Own the Night — Lady Antebellum2011 Need You Now Lady Antebellum Hemingway’s Whiskey — Kenny Chesney The Guitar Song — Jamey Johnson Speak Now — Taylor Swift Up On The Ridge — Dierks Bentley You Get What You Give — Zac Brown Band2010 RevolutionMiranda Lambert American Saturday Night — Brad Paisley Lady Antebellum — Lady Antebellum Play On — Carrie Underwood The Foundation — Zac Brown Band2009 Fearless Taylor Swift That Lonesome Song — Jamey Johnson Back When I Knew It All — Montgomery Gentry Troubadour — George Strait Carnival Ride — Carrie Underwood2008 Crazy Ex-GirlfriendMiranda Lambert 5th Gear — Brad Paisley Just Who I Am: Poets & Pirates — Kenny Chesney If You’re Going Through Hell — Rodney Atkins Taylor Swift — Taylor Swift2007 Some HeartsCarrie Underwood Hillbilly Deluxe — Brooks & Dunn It Just Comes Natural — George Strait Me and My Gang — Rascal Flatts These Days — Vince Gill2006 Time Well WastedBrad Paisley Feels Like Today — Rascal Flatts There’s More Where That Came From — Lee Ann Womack Tough All Over — Gary Allan Twice the Speed of Life — Sugarland2005 Be HereKeith Urban Here For The Party — Gretchen Wilson Live Like You Were Dying — Tim McGraw Restless — Sara Evans When The Sun Goes Down — Kenny Chesney2004 Shock'n Y'allToby Keith Honkytonkville — George Strait Martina — Martina McBride Mud On the Tires — Brad Paisley Red Dirt Road — Brooks & Dunn2003 DriveAlan Jackson Home — Dixie Chicks No Shoes, No Shirt, No Problems — Kenny Chesney On a Mission — Trick Pony Unleashed — Toby Keith2002 O Brother, Where Art Thou?Various Artists Down the Road I Go — Travis Tritt Pull My Chain — Toby Keith Set This Circus Down — Tim McGraw Steers & Stripes — Brooks & Dunn2001 How Do You Like Me Now?!Toby Keith American III: Solitary Man — Johnny Cash I Hope You Dance — Lee Ann Womack One Voice — Billy Gilman Who Needs Pictures — Brad Paisley2000 Fly Dixie Chicks A Place In The Sun — Tim McGraw Breathe — Faith Hill Cold Hard Truth — George Jones Ride With Bob — Asleep At the Wheel 1999 Wide Open Spaces Dixie Chicks I'm Alright — Jo Dee Messina     Double Live — Garth Brooks Faith — Faith Hill One Step at a Time — George Strait1998 Carrying Your Love With Me George Strait Come On Over — Shania Twain Everywhere — Tim McGraw Long Stretch Of Lonesome — Patty Loveless Sevens — Garth Brooks1997 Blue Clear Sky George Strait Blue — LeAnn Rimes Borderline — Brooks & Dunn The Trouble With The Truth — Patty Loveless Time Marches On — Tracy Lawrence1996 The Woman In Me Shania Twain All I Want — Tim McGraw Lead On — George Strait Waitin' On Sundown — Brooks & Dunn When Fallen Angels Fly — Patty Loveless1995 Not A Moment Too Soon Tim McGraw In Pieces — Garth Brooks Stones in the Road — Mary Chapin Carpenter When Love Finds You — Vince Gill Who I Am — Alan Jackson1994 A Lot About Livin' (And A Little 'Bout Love) Alan Jackson Common Thread: Songs of the Eagles — Various Artists Hard Workin' Man — Brooks & Dunn It Won't Be the Last — Billy Ray Cyrus This Time — Sawyer Brown I Still Believe in You — Vince Gill1993 Brand New Man Brooks & Dunn Come On Come On — Mary-Chapin Carpenter Some Gave All — Billy Ray Cyrus The Chase — Garth Brooks Wynonna — Wynonna1992 Don't Rock the Jukebox Alan Jackson Backroads — Ricky Van Shelton It's All About to Change — Travis Tritt Ropin' the Wind — Garth Brooks1991 No Fences Garth Brooks Pass It On Down — Alabama Ricky Van Shelton III — Ricky Van Shelton Here In The Real World — Alan Jackson When I Call Your Name — Vince Gill1990 Killin' Time Clint Black Diamonds & Dirt — Rodney Crowell Old 8 x 10 — Randy Travis Will The Circle Be Unbroken Vol II — Nitty Gritty Dirt Band Willow In The Head — Kathy Mattea1989 This WomanK.T. Oslin Buenos Noches From A Lonely Room — Dwight Yoakam Chiseled In Stone — Vern Gosdin If You Ain't Lovin' You Ain't Livin — George Strait Loving Proof — Ricky Van Shelton1988 TrioDolly Parton, Emmylou Harris and Linda Ronstadt Always and Forever — Randy Travis Born To Boogie — Hank Williams Jr. Heart Land — The Judds Ocean Front Property — George Strait1987 Storms Of LifeRandy Travis 7 — George Strait Guitars, Cadillac's Etc., Etc. — Dwight Yoakam Live In London — Ricky Skaggs Rockin' With The Rhythm — The Judds1986 Does Fort Worth Ever Cross Your MindGeorge Strait Five-O — Hank Williams Jr. Forty Hour Week — Alabama Highwayman — The Highwaymen Why Not Me — The Judds1985 Roll OnAlabama Don't Cheat in Our Hometown — Ricky Skaggs Don't Make It Easy On Me — Earl Thomas Conley Man Of Steel — Hank Williams Jr. Right Or Wrong — George Strait1984 The Closer You Get Alabama Going Where The Lonely Go — Merle Haggard Highways & Heartaches — Ricky Skaggs Poncho & Lefty — Merle Haggard and Willie Nelson Wild & Blue — John Anderson1983 Always on My Mind Willie Nelson Listen to the Radio — Don Williams Love Will Turn You Around — Kenny Rogers Mountain Music — Alabama Waitin' For The Sun To Shine — Ricky Skaggs1982 Feels So RightAlabama 9 to 5 And Odd Jobs — Dolly Parton Fancy Free — The Oak Ridge Boys Seven Year Ache — Rosanne Cash Still the Same Ole Me — George Jones1981 Urban CowboyVarious Artists Greatest Hits — Kenny Rogers I Believe In You — Don Williams There's A Little Bit Of Hank In Me — Charley Pride Coal Miner's Daughter — Loretta Lynn1980 Straight AheadLarry Gatlin Blue Kentucky Girl — Emmylou Harris Greatest Hits — Waylon Jennings Kenny — Kenny Rogers Willie Sings Kristofferson — Willie Nelson1979 Y'all Come Back SaloonThe Oak Ridge Boys Everytime Two Fools Collide — Kenny Rogers and Dottie West It Was Almost Like A Song — Ronnie Milsap Let's Keep It That Way — Anne Murray Stardust — Willie Nelson1978 Kenny RogersKenny Rogers Conway Twitty's Greatest Hits Vol. II — Conway Twitty Here You Come Again — Dolly Parton Moody Blue — Elvis Presley Ol' Waylon — Waylon Jennings1977 Gilley's SmokingMickey Gilley El Paso City — Marty Robbins Now & Then — Conway Twitty Somebody Somewhere — Loretta Lynn Wanted! The Outlaws — Jessie Colter, Tom Paul Glaser, Waylon Jennings and Willie Nelson1976 FeelingsConway Twitty and Loretta Lynn Before the Next Teardrop Falls — Freddy Fender Keep Movin On — Merle Haggard Red Headed Stranger — Willie Nelson Rhinestone Cowboy — Glen Campbell1975 Back Home AgainJohn Denver Country Bumpkin — Cal Smith For The Last Time — Bob Wills Hags 30th Album — Merle Haggard They Don't Make 'Em Like My Daddy — Loretta Lynn1974 Behind Closed DoorsCharlie Rich I Love Dixie Blues — Merle Haggard Introducing Johnny Rodriguez — Johnny Rodriguez Louisiana Woman, Mississippi Man — Conway Twitty and Loretta Lynn Love is the Foundation — Loretta Lynn1973 The Happiest Girl in the Whole U.S.A.Donna Fargo Baby Don't Get Hooked On Me — Mac Davis Best of the Best — Merle Haggard Bless Your Heart — Freddie Hart It's Not Love (But It's Not Bad) — Merle Haggard Let Me Tell You About a Song — Merle Haggard1972 Easy LovingFreddie Hart Charley Pride Sings Heart Songs — Charley Pride I Won't Mention It Again — Ray Price Someday We'll Look Back — Merle Haggard The Hag — Merle Haggard1971 For the Good TimesRay Price Charley Pride's 10th Album — Charley Pride Fightin' Side of Me — Merle Haggard Glen Campbell's Goodtime Album — Glen Campbell Tribute to Best Damn Fiddle Player — Merle Haggard1970 Okie From MuskogeeMerle Haggard Best Of Charley Pride — Charley Pride Glen Campbell Live — Glen Campbell Johnny Cash at Folsom Prison — Johnny Cash Tammy Wynette's Greatest Hits — Tammy Wynette1969 Glen Campbell & Bobbie GentryGlen Campbell and Bobbie Gentry Best Of Buck Owens — Buck Owens Mama Tried — Merle Haggard The Best of Merle Haggard — Merle Haggard Wichita Lineman — Glen Campbell1968 Gentle On My MindGlen Campbell Branded Man — Merle Haggard Burning Bridges — Glen Campbell I'm A Lonesome Fugitive — Merle Haggard It's Such A Pretty World Today - Wynn Stewart

Category records

Wins

Male artist with most wins — George Strait, Chris Stapleton (3). Female artist with most wins — Miranda Lambert (5). Group with most wins — Alabama (3). Duo with the most wins — Brooks & Dunn, Conway Twitty and Loretta Lynn, Glen Campbell and Bobbie Gentry (1).

Nominations

Male artist with most nominations — George Strait (12). Female artist with most nominations — Miranda Lambert (7). Group with most nominations — Alabama (6). Duo with the most nominations — Brooks & Dunn (7).

See also

Country Music Association Award for Album of the Year

References