Sony/ATV’s Lambert and Rhett Double Winners at ACM Awards

Sony/ATV songwriters Miranda Lambert and Thomas Rhett were both double winners at this year’s Academy of Country Music (ACM) Awards.

Lambert was named Female Vocalist of the Year at the 52nd annual ceremony held Sunday night at the T-Mobile Arena in Las Vegas, while her release The Weight Of These Wings was Album Of The Year. It is the eighth time Lambert has won the top female prize, while her album win follows successes for her in the same category in previous years with Crazy Ex-Girlfriend, Revolution, Four The Record and Platinum.

Rhett was named Male Vocalist Of The Year, while “Die A Happy A Man”, which was co-written and performed by him, was Song Of the Year. It is the latest award success for the song which spent 17 weeks at No. 1 on Billboard’s Hot Country Songs chart between November 2015 and March 2016 and was previously named Single Of The Year at the CMA Awards, Top Country Song at the Billboard Music Awards and Song Of The Year at the American Country Countdown Awards.

Sony/ATV’s other winners include Job Pardi who was New Male Vocalist following the success of his album California Sunrise, which last year topped Billboard’s Country Albums chart