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Chris Stapleton Thanks Wife After 2021 ACMs Album of the Year Win: 'We Worked Really Hard'

Chris Stapleton Thanks Wife After 2021 ACMs Album of the Year Win: 'We Worked Really Hard'

Chris Stapleton just won big at the 2021 ACM Awards!

Stapleton, 43, took the award for album of the year at Sunday's star-studded country music awards show for his album Starting Over. Clay Walker presented the award.

"We worked really hard to make music. And we think a lot about it," Stapleton said, before thanking his wife Morgane and album collaborators. "It means a lot. It really does."

Starting Over beat out album's including Luke Bryan's Born Here Live Here Die Here, Kane Brown's Mixtape Vol. 1, Ashley McBryde's Never Will and Brothers Osborne's Skeletons.

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Stapleton accepted his ninth ACM trophy and after he performed "Maggie's Song" alongside Miranda Lambert, who stepped in because his wife and frequent collaborator Morgane had a "prior doula commitment."

Previous album of the year winners included Bryan, Stapleton, Kacey Musgraves, Miranda Lambert, Eric Church, Lady A and Taylor Swift.

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Stapleton was also up for the entertainer of the year title, which Luke Bryan won.

The AMC Awards are airing live from Nashville Sunday from 8-11 p.m. ET on CBS and Paramount +.