# Academy of Country Music Award for Album of the Year

The Academy of Country Music Award for Album of the Year is a competitive category presented at the Academy of Country Music Awards. The following is the list of winners, with the year representing the nominated work.

## Recipients

| Year | Winner | Artist(s) | Nominees |
| 2023 | Bell Bottom Country | Lainey Wilson | Ashley McBryde Presents: Lindeville — Ashley McBryde Growin' Up — Luke Combs Mr. Saturday Night — Jon Pardi Palomino — Miranda Lambert |
| 2022 | Dangerous: The Double Album | Morgan Wallen | 29: Written in Stone — Carly Pearce Country Again: Side A — Thomas Rhett Famous Friends — Chris Young The Marfa Tapes — Miranda Lambert, Jack Ingram, Jon Randall |
| 2021 | Starting Over | Chris Stapleton | Born Here Live Here Die Here — Luke Bryan Mixtape Vol. 1 — Kane Brown Never Will — Ashley McBryde Skeletons — Brothers Osborne |
| 2020 | What You See Is What You Get | Luke Combs | Center Point Road — Thomas Rhett Girl — Maren Morris Heartache Medication — Jon Pardi Wildcard — Miranda Lambert |
| 2019 | Golden Hour | Kacey Musgraves | Dan + Shay — Dan + Shay Desperate Man — Eric Church From A Room: Volume 2 — Chris Stapleton The Mountain — Dierks Bentley |
| 2018 | From A Room: Volume 1 | Chris Stapleton | The Breaker — Little Big Town California Sunrise — Jon Pardi Happy Endings — Old Dominion Life Changes — Thomas Rhett |
| 2017 | The Weight of These Wings | Miranda Lambert | Black — Dierks Bentley Dig Your Roots — Florida Georgia Line Hero - Maren Morris Ripcord — Keith Urban |
| 2016 | Traveller | Chris Stapleton | I'm Comin' Over — Chris Young Montevallo — Sam Hunt Mr. Misunderstood — Eric Church Tangled Up — Thomas Rhett |
| 2015 | Platinum | Miranda Lambert | Old Boots, New Dirt — Jason Aldean Pain Killer — Little Big Town Riser — Dierks Bentley The Outsiders — Eric Church |
| 2014 | Same Trailer Different Park | Kacey Musgraves | Based on a True Story... — Blake Shelton Crash My Party — Luke Bryan Here's to the Good Times — Florida Georgia Line Two Lanes of Freedom — Tim McGraw |
| 2013 | Chief | Eric Church | Blown Away — Carrie Underwood Red — Taylor Swift Tailgates & Tanlines — Luke Bryan Tornado — Little Big Town |
| 2012 | Four the Record | Miranda Lambert | Chief — Eric Church Hemingway’s Whiskey — Kenny Chesney My Kinda Party — Jason Aldean Own the Night — Lady Antebellum |
| 2011 | Need You Now | Lady Antebellum | Hemingway’s Whiskey — Kenny Chesney The Guitar Song — Jamey Johnson Speak Now — Taylor Swift Up On The Ridge — Dierks Bentley You Get What You Give — Zac Brown Band |
| 2010 | Revolution | Miranda Lambert | American Saturday Night — Brad Paisley Lady Antebellum — Lady Antebellum Play On — Carrie Underwood The Foundation — Zac Brown Band |
| 2009 | Fearless | Taylor Swift | That Lonesome Song — Jamey Johnson Back When I Knew It All — Montgomery Gentry Troubadour — George Strait Carnival Ride — Carrie Underwood |
| 2008 | Crazy Ex-Girlfriend | Miranda Lambert | 5th Gear — Brad Paisley Just Who I Am: Poets & Pirates — Kenny Chesney If You’re Going Through Hell — Rodney Atkins Taylor Swift — Taylor Swift |
| 2007 | Some Hearts | Carrie Underwood | Hillbilly Deluxe — Brooks & Dunn It Just Comes Natural — George Strait Me and My Gang — Rascal Flatts These Days — Vince Gill |
| 2006 | Time Well Wasted | Brad Paisley | Feels Like Today — Rascal Flatts There’s More Where That Came From — Lee Ann Womack Tough All Over — Gary Allan Twice the Speed of Life — Sugarland |
| 2005 | Be Here | Keith Urban | Here For The Party — Gretchen Wilson Live Like You Were Dying — Tim McGraw Restless — Sara Evans When The Sun Goes Down — Kenny Chesney |
| 2004 | Shock'n Y'all | Toby Keith | Honkytonkville — George Strait Martina — Martina McBride Mud On the Tires — Brad Paisley Red Dirt Road — Brooks & Dunn |
| 2003 | Drive | Alan Jackson | Home — Dixie Chicks No Shoes, No Shirt, No Problems — Kenny Chesney On a Mission — Trick Pony Unleashed — Toby Keith |
| 2002 | O Brother, Where Art Thou? | Various Artists | Down the Road I Go — Travis Tritt Pull My Chain — Toby Keith Set This Circus Down — Tim McGraw Steers & Stripes — Brooks & Dunn |
| 2001 | How Do You Like Me Now?! | Toby Keith | American III: Solitary Man — Johnny Cash I Hope You Dance — Lee Ann Womack One Voice — Billy Gilman Who Needs Pictures — Brad Paisley |
| 2000 | Fly | Dixie Chicks | A Place In The Sun — Tim McGraw Breathe — Faith Hill Cold Hard Truth — George Jones Ride With Bob — Asleep At the Wheel |
| 1999 | Wide Open Spaces | Dixie Chicks | I'm Alright — Jo Dee Messina   Double Live — Garth Brooks Faith — Faith Hill One Step at a Time — George Strait |
| 1998 | Carrying Your Love With Me | George Strait | Come On Over — Shania Twain Everywhere — Tim McGraw Long Stretch Of Lonesome — Patty Loveless Sevens — Garth Brooks |
| 1997 | Blue Clear Sky | George Strait | Blue — LeAnn Rimes Borderline — Brooks & Dunn The Trouble With The Truth — Patty Loveless Time Marches On — Tracy Lawrence |
| 1996 | The Woman In Me | Shania Twain | All I Want — Tim McGraw Lead On — George Strait Waitin' On Sundown — Brooks & Dunn When Fallen Angels Fly — Patty Loveless |
| 1995 | Not A Moment Too Soon | Tim McGraw | In Pieces — Garth Brooks Stones in the Road — Mary Chapin Carpenter When Love Finds You — Vince Gill Who I Am — Alan Jackson |
| 1994 | A Lot About Livin' (And A Little 'Bout Love) | Alan Jackson | Common Thread: Songs of the Eagles — Various Artists Hard Workin' Man — Brooks & Dunn It Won't Be the Last — Billy Ray Cyrus This Time — Sawyer Brown I Still Believe in You — Vince Gill |
| 1993 | Brand New Man | Brooks & Dunn | Come On Come On — Mary-Chapin Carpenter Some Gave All — Billy Ray Cyrus The Chase — Garth Brooks Wynonna — Wynonna |
| 1992 | Don't Rock the Jukebox | Alan Jackson | Backroads — Ricky Van Shelton It's All About to Change — Travis Tritt Ropin' the Wind — Garth Brooks |
| 1991 | No Fences | Garth Brooks | Pass It On Down — Alabama Ricky Van Shelton III — Ricky Van Shelton Here In The Real World — Alan Jackson When I Call Your Name — Vince Gill |
| 1990 | Killin' Time | Clint Black | Diamonds & Dirt — Rodney Crowell Old 8 x 10 — Randy Travis Will The Circle Be Unbroken Vol II — Nitty Gritty Dirt Band Willow In The Head — Kathy Mattea |
| 1989 | This Woman | K.T. Oslin | Buenos Noches From A Lonely Room — Dwight Yoakam Chiseled In Stone — Vern Gosdin If You Ain't Lovin' You Ain't Livin — George Strait Loving Proof — Ricky Van Shelton |
| 1988 | Trio | Dolly Parton, Emmylou Harris and Linda Ronstadt | Always and Forever — Randy Travis Born To Boogie — Hank Williams Jr. Heart Land — The Judds Ocean Front Property — George Strait |
| 1987 | Storms Of Life | Randy Travis | 7 — George Strait Guitars, Cadillac's Etc., Etc. — Dwight Yoakam Live In London — Ricky Skaggs Rockin' With The Rhythm — The Judds |
| 1986 | Does Fort Worth Ever Cross Your Mind | George Strait | Five-O — Hank Williams Jr. Forty Hour Week — Alabama Highwayman — The Highwaymen Why Not Me — The Judds |
| 1985 | Roll On | Alabama | Don't Cheat in Our Hometown — Ricky Skaggs Don't Make It Easy On Me — Earl Thomas Conley Man Of Steel — Hank Williams Jr. Right Or Wrong — George Strait |
| 1984 | The Closer You Get | Alabama | Going Where The Lonely Go — Merle Haggard Highways & Heartaches — Ricky Skaggs Poncho & Lefty — Merle Haggard and Willie Nelson Wild & Blue — John Anderson |
| 1983 | Always on My Mind | Willie Nelson | Listen to the Radio — Don Williams Love Will Turn You Around — Kenny Rogers Mountain Music — Alabama Waitin' For The Sun To Shine — Ricky Skaggs |
| 1982 | Feels So Right | Alabama | 9 to 5 And Odd Jobs — Dolly Parton Fancy Free — The Oak Ridge Boys Seven Year Ache — Rosanne Cash Still the Same Ole Me — George Jones |
| 1981 | Urban Cowboy | Various Artists | Greatest Hits — Kenny Rogers I Believe In You — Don Williams There's A Little Bit Of Hank In Me — Charley Pride Coal Miner's Daughter — Loretta Lynn |
| 1980 | Straight Ahead | Larry Gatlin | Blue Kentucky Girl — Emmylou Harris Greatest Hits — Waylon Jennings Kenny — Kenny Rogers Willie Sings Kristofferson — Willie Nelson |
| 1979 | Y'all Come Back Saloon | The Oak Ridge Boys | Everytime Two Fools Collide — Kenny Rogers and Dottie West It Was Almost Like A Song — Ronnie Milsap Let's Keep It That Way — Anne Murray Stardust — Willie Nelson |
| 1978 | Kenny Rogers | Kenny Rogers | Conway Twitty's Greatest Hits Vol. II — Conway Twitty Here You Come Again — Dolly Parton Moody Blue — Elvis Presley Ol' Waylon — Waylon Jennings |
| 1977 | Gilley's Smoking | Mickey Gilley | El Paso City — Marty Robbins Now & Then — Conway Twitty Somebody Somewhere — Loretta Lynn Wanted! The Outlaws — Jessie Colter, Tom Paul Glaser, Waylon Jennings and Willie Nelson |
| 1976 | Feelings | Conway Twitty and Loretta Lynn | Before the Next Teardrop Falls — Freddy Fender Keep Movin On — Merle Haggard Red Headed Stranger — Willie Nelson Rhinestone Cowboy — Glen Campbell |
| 1975 | Back Home Again | John Denver | Country Bumpkin — Cal Smith For The Last Time — Bob Wills Hags 30th Album — Merle Haggard They Don't Make 'Em Like My Daddy — Loretta Lynn |
| 1974 | Behind Closed Doors | Charlie Rich | I Love Dixie Blues — Merle Haggard Introducing Johnny Rodriguez — Johnny Rodriguez Louisiana Woman, Mississippi Man — Conway Twitty and Loretta Lynn Love is the Foundation — Loretta Lynn |
| 1973 | The Happiest Girl in the Whole U.S.A. | Donna Fargo | Baby Don't Get Hooked On Me — Mac Davis Best of the Best — Merle Haggard Bless Your Heart — Freddie Hart It's Not Love (But It's Not Bad) — Merle Haggard Let Me Tell You About a Song — Merle Haggard |
| 1972 | Easy Loving | Freddie Hart | Charley Pride Sings Heart Songs — Charley Pride I Won't Mention It Again — Ray Price Someday We'll Look Back — Merle Haggard The Hag — Merle Haggard |
| 1971 | For the Good Times | Ray Price | Charley Pride's 10th Album — Charley Pride Fightin' Side of Me — Merle Haggard Glen Campbell's Goodtime Album — Glen Campbell Tribute to Best Damn Fiddle Player — Merle Haggard |
| 1970 | Okie From Muskogee | Merle Haggard | Best Of Charley Pride — Charley Pride Glen Campbell Live — Glen Campbell Johnny Cash at Folsom Prison — Johnny Cash Tammy Wynette's Greatest Hits — Tammy Wynette |
| 1969 | Glen Campbell & Bobbie Gentry | Glen Campbell and Bobbie Gentry | Best Of Buck Owens — Buck Owens Mama Tried — Merle Haggard The Best of Merle Haggard — Merle Haggard Wichita Lineman — Glen Campbell |
| 1968 | Gentle On My Mind | Glen Campbell | Branded Man — Merle Haggard Burning Bridges — Glen Campbell I'm A Lonesome Fugitive — Merle Haggard It's Such A Pretty World Today - Wynn Stewart |

## Category records
### Wins

* Male artist with most wins — George Strait, Chris Stapleton (3).
* Female artist with most wins — Miranda Lambert (5).
* Group with most wins — Alabama (3).
* Duo with the most wins — Brooks & Dunn, Conway Twitty and Loretta Lynn, Glen Campbell and Bobbie Gentry (1).

### Nominations

* Male artist with most nominations — George Strait (12).
* Female artist with most nominations — Miranda Lambert (7).
* Group with most nominations — Alabama (6).
* Duo with the most nominations — Brooks & Dunn (7).