Blake Shelton‘s “God’s Country” is the 2020 ACM Award winner for Single of the Year. The song, from Blake’s Fully Loaded: God’s Country album, was written by HARDY, Devin Dawson and Jordan Schmidt.

“This is a complete shock and an absolute honor,” Blake said. “I want to take just a second to thank Scott Hendricks for producing this record, and bringing the song to my attention. Thank you to Warner Bros. Records for all the work you do, the promotion staff, everyone involved. Thanks for continuing to somehow prop me up after 20 years of doing this. Obviously, country radio for playing the crap out of not only this song, but you’ve been so good to me with all of my singles, and thank you for that.”

“Thank you to the fans, and thank you to Gwen Stefani for encouraging me to keep doing this and keep trying, and being my inspiration,” he concluded. “And thank you God. Thank you everybody.”

Blake was also nominated for Song of the Year, with Old Dominion winning that award with “One Man Band,” Video of the Year, also for “God’s Country,” with Thomas Rhett’s “Remember You Young” wining that category, and Music Event of the Year, for “Dive Bar” with Garth Brooks, with Miranda Lambert and her Roadside Bars & Pink Guitars Tour members winning in that category.

Blake is back at radio with his second single in a row with Gwen. After the success of their No. 1 single, “Nobody But You,” the couple released “Happy Anywhere.”

“I’d be lying if I said there wasn’t a discussion about, is it weird to do two in a row?,” Blake admitted on the Bobby Bones Show. “At the end of the day, I just want to put out the best music I can, the best songs that I can. Especially for right now, with the message of this song, it just seemed like, ‘Who cares? This is a song we want to release right now, and we’re bogged down here together.’”