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Megan Moroney Is CMA’s New Artist of the Year, But She Wasn’t Even Nominated as Grammy’s Best New Artist. How Rare Is That?


Megan Moroney is the CMA Awards' new artist of the year, but she wasn’t even nominated as Grammy’s best new artist. A comparison of the two awards.

Even such giants as Randy Travis, Garth Brooks, Keith Urban, Rascal Flatts and Morgan Wallen were passed over for Grammy best new artist nods. We cap this discussion by showing the four CMA winners for the horizon award/new artist of the year who have yet to win a Grammy in any category. 1981: Terri Gibbs 1982: Ricky Skaggs 1985: Sawyer Brown1986: Randy Travis 1987: Holly Dunn 1988: Ricky Van Shelton 1989: Clint Black 1990: Garth Brooks 1991: Travis Tritt 1992: Suzy Bogguss 1993: Mark Chesnutt1994: John Michael Montgomery 1996: Bryan White 1999: Jo Dee Messina 2001: Keith Urban 2002: Rascal Flatts 2003: Joe Nichols 2005: Dierks Bentley2014: Brett Eldredge 2017: Jon Pardi 2019: Ashley McBryde 2020: Morgan Wallen2022: Lainey Wilson 2024: Megan Moroney

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