# Academy of Country Music Award for New Vocal Duo or Group of the Year

The Academy of Country Music Award for New Vocal Duo or Group of the Year is one of the new artist categories presented at the Academy of Country Music Awards. This award was first awarded in 1967 to Bob Morris & Faye Hardin, when this award was known as the Most Promising Vocal Group.
In 1967, this award was known as the Most Promising Vocal Group.
From 1990 to 2008, the award was known as the Top New Vocal Group or Duet.
And from 2016 to 2019, this award is now known as the New Vocal Duo or Group of the Year.
And from 2024 to now, the award is known as the New Duo/Group of the Year
This award is given to the new vocal group or formed duo who has gained initial fame or significantly greater recognition during the promotion of a debut or sophomore album within the eligibility period. The artist must have released a single that reached the Top 40 on Billboard's Hot Country Songs or the Mediabase Country charts. Any albums self-released through an independent label the artist owns and operates may not be counted as a debut or sophomore album, unless it produces a Top 40 single reported by Billboard's Hot Country Songs or Mediabase Country charts.

## Winners and nominees

In the following tables, the years correspond to the date of the ceremony. Artists are eligible based on their work of the previous calendar year. Entries with a blue ribbon next to the artist's name have won the award; those with a white background are the nominees on the short-list.
There was no winner for this award in 2004, 2005, and from 2010 to 2015. For the award was changed into the Academy of Country Music Award for New Artist of the Year award. The winners in 2009 and 2013 would be finalist for the New Artist of the Year.

### 2020s

| Year | Winner | Nominees |
| 2024 | Tigirlily Gold | Neon Union Restless Road |

### 2010s

| Year | Winner | Nominees |
| 2019 | Lanco | High Valley Runaway June |
| 2018 | Midland | High Valley Lanco LoCash Runaway June |
| 2017 | Brothers Osborne | A Thousand Horses Dan + Shay LoCash Maddie & Tae |
| 2016 | Old Dominion | A Thousand Horses Brothers Osborne Maddie & Tae Parmalee |
| 2013 | Florida Georgia Line | Love and Theft Thompson Square |

### 2000s

| Year | Winner | Nominees |
| 2009 | Zac Brown Band | Eli Young Band The Lost Trailers |
| 2008 | Lady A | Carolina Rain The Wreckers |
| 2007 | Little Big Town | Heartland The Wreckers |
| 2006 | Sugarland | Big & Rich Little Big Town |
| 2003 | Emerson Drive | Nickel Creek Pinmonkey |
| 2002 | Trick Pony | Nickel Creek Sons of the Desert |
| 2001 | Rascal Flatts | Clark Family Experience Sons of the Desert |
| 2000 | Montgomery Gentry | SHeDAISY Yankee Grey |

### 1990s

| Year | Winner | Nominees |
| 1999 | Dixie Chicks | The Warren Brothers The Wilkinsons |
| 1998 | The Kinleys | Big House The Lynns |
| 1997 | Ricochet | BR5-49 Burnin' Daylight |
| 1996 | Lonestar | 4 Runner Perfect Stranger |
| 1995 | The Mavericks | The Tractors John & Audrey Wiggins |
| 1994 | Gibson/Miller Band | BlackHawk Boy Howdy |
| 1993 | Confederate Railroad | Great Plains Little Texas |
| 1992 | Brooks & Dunn | Diamond Rio McBride & the Ride |
| 1991 | Pirates of the Mississippi | Canyon Prairie Oyster |
| 1990 | The Kentucky Headhunters | Shenandoah Wild Rose |

### 1960s

| Year | Winner | Nominees |
| 1967 | Bob Morris & Faye Hardin | Bobby Durham & Jeanie O'Neal The LeGarde Twins The Leightons Del & Sue Smart |