Taylor Swift has a CMA Award nomination, and her reaction is about as country as it gets. The singer earned a 2026 Single of the Year nod for“I Knew It, I Knew You,”and celebrated on Instagram with“Looks like I haven’t yee’d my last haw. Thank you CMA!!!!”She followed it up with a simple“See you there Nov 18,”which sure sounds like a promise to be in the room on awards night.
The song arrived in June on the Toy Story 5 soundtrack and turned into one of the year’s biggest hits, going No. 1 on the Billboard Hot 100 and Hot Country Songs. It also returned Swift to the top of the country radio chart for the first time in over a decade, a stat that means a lot for an artist whose career began in Nashville before her pop breakthrough. She shares the nomination with coproducer Jack Antonoff and mix engineer Laura Sisk.
The competition is fierce. Swift is nominated alongside Ella Langley’s“Be Her”and“Choosin’Texas,”Lainey Wilson’s“Somewhere Over Laredo”and Cody Johnson’s“The Fall.”The CMA Awards air live on ABC and stream on Disney+ on Nov. 18, with a next-day stream on Hulu. So tell us, who are you pulling for in the Single of the Year category?
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