MusicRow Award Winners Among CMA Nominees

Winners of the 2014 MusicRow awards racked up nominations for the upcoming 48th annual CMA Music Awards, continuing a long-standing correlation between both industry-voted honors.
Hit songwriter-turned-Slate Creek Records artist Brandy Clark, who was honored as MusicRow‘s Breakthrough Artist of the Year for 2014, scored a nomination in the CMA New Artist of the Year category, alongside Brett Eldredge, Kip Moore, Thomas Rhett and Cole Swindell. Clark is also nominated in the Song of the Year category, for “Follow Your Arrow,” co-written with Kacey Musgraves and Shane McAnally.
“I’ve watched the CMA awards every year for as long as I can remember,” said Clark. “To be a nominee in both Song and New Artist is truly a thrill and a dream come true.”
Nicolle Galyon and Cole Swindell who tied for MusicRow Breakthrough Songwriter of the Year, also earned CMA Music Awards nominations. Galyon is up for CMA Song of the Year for co-writing Miranda Lambert’s “Automatic,” with Lambert and Natalie Hemby. Swindell was nominated for CMA Best New Artist.
MusicRow‘s 2014 Producer of the Year Frank Liddell is nominated in the CMA Single of the Year category for producing “Automatic,” as well as the Album of the Year category, for producing Lambert’s RCA Records Nashville project Platinum, alongside Chuck Ainlay and Glenn Worf.
The MusicRow Awards, voted by subscribed industry members of the publication, are often a key predictor for select CMA Awards. Almost every year since 2006, MusicRow’s Breakthrough Artist winners also received the CMA New Artist/Horizon Award later the same year, including Kacey Musgraves (2013), The Band Perry (2011), Zac Brown Band (2010), Lady Antebellum (2008), Taylor Swift (2007), and Carrie Underwood (2006).
See coverage of the 2014 MusicRow awards here.