Surprise! The ACM Awards announced the winners of the New Female and Male artist categories.

For the ladies Tenille Townes beat out Gabby Barrett, Ingrid Andress, Lindsay Ell and Caylee Hammack.

Riley Green took the honors for the guys beating Jordan Davis, Russell Dickerson, Cody Johnson and Morgan Wallen!

 

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I’m still not even believing this….😭

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Congratulations to @rileyduckman on being named the ACM New Male Artist Of The Year! #ACMawards host @keithurban crashed Riley’s Zoom Meeting to tell him the big news. Catch Riley’s performance on the 55th ACM Awards show, coming to you Wednesday, September 16th on @cbstv at 8/7c.

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