Sam Hunt, Florida Georgia Line, Carrie Underwood, Luke Bryan, Blake Shelton & More Earn Teen Choice Awards Nominations

by Jim Casey | @TheJimCasey | June 21, 2017

The Teen Choice Awards announced its first wave of nominations on June 20.

On the country music front, both Sam Hunt and Florida Georgia Line earned two nominations apiece. Sam is nominated for Choice Country Artist and Choice Song: Male Artist, while FGL earned nods for Choice Country Artist and Choice Collaboration.

Blake Shelton, Carrie Underwood, Kelsea Ballerini and Luke Bryan also netted nominations for Choice Country Artist.

Voting is open at TeenChoice.com or fans can vote by tweeting the category hashtag with the nominee’s name. Fans can vote up to 10 times in each category per day until June 22 at 9 p.m. PT.

The Teen Choice Awards air live on Fox on Aug. 13 at 8 p.m. ET.

Check out all of the country music-centric nominees below.

Choice Country Artist (#ChoiceCountryArtist)
Blake Shelton
Carrie Underwood
Florida Georgia Line
Kelsea Ballerini
Luke Bryan
Sam Hunt

Choice Song: Male Artist (#ChoiceSongMaleArtist)
Sam Hunt – “Body Like a Back Road”
Bruno Mars – “That’s What I Like”
Ed Sheeran – “Shape of You”
Harry Styles – “Sign of the Times”
Luis Fonsi & Daddy Yankee (feat. Justin Bieber) – “Despacito”
Niall Horan – “Slow Hands”

Choice Collaboration (#ChoiceCollaboration)
Florida Georgia Line (feat. Backstreet Boys) – “God, Your Mama, And Me”
Cheat Codes (feat. Demi Lovato) – “No Promises”
Kygo & Selena Gomez – “It Ain’t Me”
Steve Aoki & Louis Tomlinson – “Just Hold On”
ZAYN & Taylor Swift – “I Don’t Wanna Live Forever”
Zedd & Alessia Cara – “Stay”

photo by Jason Simanek

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