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CMA Flashback: Horizon Award and New Artist (2024 Edition)

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The complete history of the CMA award for Horizon/New Artist, including a look at this year’s nominees.

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Janie Fricke scores another uptempo hit.

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Janie Fricke earns her first solo No. 1 hit.

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How strong a year for country music was 1993? Well, if our Best Albums list revealed how many great artists were overlooked, our Best Singles list reveals why there is so little room at the

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Revised and Updated for 2009 While the Grammys have honored country music from the very first ceremony in 1959, they did not begin honoring by gender until 1965, when the country categories were expanded along

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