Amy

But here we go.

Entertainer of the Year nominees are Luke Combs, Jelly Roll, Cody Johnson, Megan Maroney, Chris Stapleton, Morgan Wallen, and Laney Wilson.

Some artists are at a disadvantage if they have a small management company, a small record label.

Because again, you need all your people to just kind of galvanize and vote as much as possible.

And they have put different protocol in place to where you can't really block vote like the old days.

There's still some elements to that, but it's pretty legitimate within the industry how this gets voted.

That being said, if you have two artists, for example, Jelly Roll and Laney Wilson, they're on the same record label, right?

So are you going to split the vote?

Are you going to have a conversation within a label like, hey, we're putting our forces behind someone?

So that's always something.

If it were picked based on just data, D-A-T-A, absolute facts, I'm talking streams and radio play and concert sales, it would be Morgan Wallen.

I think the thing, though, that hurts Morgan is that people know that Morgan DJ-F.

He does not give a F, and he probably ain't going to show up.

And so I do think that that keeps people from voting for him, even though he should win the award.

And there are artists that I listen to, obviously.

I listen to Stapleton way more than I would Morgan Wallen.

And I like Morgan.

But personally, I like Stapleton.

I like Megan Maroney.

I think Morgan Wallen should win this thing.