Lambert Wins 4, but Luke Bryan Takes Top Prize at ACM Awards

ARLINGTON (AP/STAFF) — Lindale’s Miranda Lambert won four awards, including album and song of the year, but the singer lost the night’s top prize to Luke Bryan at Sunday’s Academy of Country Music Awards. It was a repeat of the Country Music Association Awards in November, where Lambert won multiple prizes but lost the big award to Bryan. Lambert was the sole female nominated for entertainer of the year; other nominees included Garth Brooks, Jason Aldean and Florida Georgia Line, who won two awards Sunday at the AT&T Stadium. Though she lost the top prize, again, Lambert was the queen of the night. She was on a red-hot winning streak, and she even rocked a red-hot bustier when she performed “Little Red Wagon.” Lambert won her fourth album of the year, her sixth female vocalist of the year and twice for third single record of the year (she won twice this year as a performer and songwriter of “Automatic.”) “I don’t even realize what’s happening tonight, “Lambert said. “I love my job so much. I will never not love my job.”

Lambert, a fashion favorite in the last year, wowed again in a flowing, plunging dress on the red carpet. Inside the venue, she wore white pants and a white top with a black sheer center. She also accepted the 50th Anniversary Milestone Award, given to her by Reese Witherspoon and Sofia Vergara (Lambert wrote a song for their new film, “Hot Pursuit.”)

The AMC awards show celebrated its 50th anniversary in a new location, the Dallas Cowboys Stadium. Co-host Blake Shelton, who is Lambert’s husband, announced that the show, usually held in Las Vegas, set a Guinness World Record for most attended live awards show of all-time.