Lainey Wilson takes top honour at 2024 Academy of Country Music Awards

Lainey Wilson accepts the award for entertainer of the year during the 59th annual Academy of Country Music Awards on Thursday at the Ford Centre in Frisco, Texas (Chris Pizzello/AP)

Singer Lainey Wilson has been named female artist of the year and picked up the top prize of entertainer of the year at the 2024 Academy of Country Music Awards.

She joins an exclusive category of few women to earn the top prize: Miranda Lambert was named entertainer of the year in 2022. In 2020, Carrie Underwood and Thomas Rhett tied for the title, the first time ever for a tie and the first time a woman had won the category since Taylor Swift in 2012.