Miranda Lambert is the clearest award-led choice: she won the 2017 CMA Female Vocalist of the Year award. Maren Morris, Lauren Alaina, Kelsea Ballerini, Kacey Musgraves, Carrie Underwood and Reba McEntire also belong in a considered list, for different reasons ranging from award recognition to notable releases and touring that year. This is a curated selection, not an objective ranking; the available awards and release records do not establish a single chart-wide “best.”
How to read this list
Major 2017 award results provide a useful starting point, but a win, nomination or release is evidence of recognition or activity—not proof that one singer was objectively better than another. The list combines award-recognized artists with performers whose documented 2017 work adds useful range. Its order is editorial, not a chart position.
Female country singers to know from 2017
Miranda Lambert
Lambert is the strongest award-led anchor: she won the 2017 CMA Female Vocalist of the Year award, and she was one of five nominees for the 2017 ACM Female Vocalist award. Her album The Weight of These Wings was also among the ACM Album of the Year nominees. Those results make her a natural lead selection without turning one award into a definitive ranking. The CMA’s 2017 winners list and the ACM’s 2017 awards information document the recognition.
Maren Morris
Morris had an unusually broad set of documented milestones. Sony Music Canada’s retrospective says she won the 2017 Grammy for Best Country Solo Performance for “My Church,” won the ACM New Female Vocalist award, received CMA nominations and completed her first headlining HERO Tour. She was also nominated for ACM Female Vocalist, and HERO was an ACM Album of the Year nominee. Sony reports that she received six ACM nominations and four nominations for the 59th Annual Grammy Awards; the Grammy nominations included Best New Artist, Best Country Album for HERO and Best Country Song for “My Church.” The Grammy win for “My Church” was a separate result. Sony Music Canada’s Morris retrospective provides that account.
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Kelsea Ballerini
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Carrie Underwood
Underwood completed the five-person 2017 ACM Female Vocalist nominee group. Her presence gives the list an established performer alongside artists recognized as new female vocalists. The ACM’s 2017 awards information names her as a nominee.
Lauren Alaina
Alaina won the 2017 ACM New Female Vocalist award, a clear reason to include her as an emerging artist even though this list is not limited to newcomers. The ACM’s 2017 awards information records the result.
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Reba McEntire
McEntire adds a different kind of 2017 release to the selection. She released Sing It Now: Songs of Faith & Hope, her first gospel album; her label, MCA, reports that it debuted at No. 1 on both the Billboard Country and Christian charts. Its gospel direction matters: it is relevant to McEntire’s year, but it should not be mistaken for a conventional country album. MCA’s artist page gives the release and chart context.
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The ACM Female Vocalist nominees were Kelsea Ballerini, Miranda Lambert, Maren Morris, Kacey Musgraves and Carrie Underwood. Lambert’s CMA Female Vocalist win and Alaina’s ACM New Female Vocalist win distinguish winners from nominees; Morris’s Grammy win and tour add evidence beyond the country-award categories. Awards are a useful guide to who received formal recognition, but they do not amount to a comprehensive ranking of every female country singer active that year.
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Albums for a focused listen
- The Weight of These Wings — Miranda Lambert; named among the 2017 ACM Album of the Year nominees.
- HERO — Maren Morris; also named among the 2017 ACM Album of the Year nominees and central to her documented 2017 activity.
- Sing It Now: Songs of Faith & Hope — Reba McEntire; a gospel release that crossed the Country and Christian chart categories according to MCA.
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