The nominees for the 40th annual Golden Guitars have just been announced at a ceremony hosted by Adam Harvey and Beccy Cole.

Adam was nominated for an incredible 8 golden guitars including Male Artist of the Year, Single of the Year and Album of the Year, as well as Vocal Collaboration of the Year for his work with  Beccy Cole on ‘A Good Woman Can’.

Beccy received 6 nominations for her new album Songs and Pictures.

Shane Nicholson received 7 nominations for his album Bad Machines.

Here's a full list of the nominees:-

Album of the Year
At The Speed of Life - Graeme Connors produced by Matt Fell
Bad Machines - Shane Nicholson produced by Shane Nicholson
Falling Into Place - Adam Harvey, produced by Rod McCormack
Get Closer - Keith Urban, produced by Dann Huff & Keith Urban
Songs & Pictures - Beccy Cole, produced by Shane Nicholson

Sanity Top Selling Album of the Year
Best So Far - Adam Harvey
Falling Into Place - Adam Harvey
Get Closer - Keith Urban
In Symphony - John Williamson
Little Bird - Kasey Chambers

Male Artist of the Year
James Blundell - Move Into The City
Graeme Connors - The Mouth Of The River
Adam Harvey - You Don't Know My Love
Shane Nicholson - Bad Machines
Keith Urban - Long Hot Summer

Female Artist of the Year
Kirsty Akers - Sweet Ol Jackson
Katrina Burgoyne - White Flag
Beccy Cole - Waitress
Jasmine Rae - I Faked It
Aleyce Simmonds - The Healing Hands Of Time

Group or Duo of the Year
The Bobkatz - In the Coals
Carter & Carter - Dance In The Rain
Davidson Brothers - Write Me A Letter
Jetty Road - Serves You Right
O'Shea - Smash

Vocal Collaboration of the Year
A Good Woman Can - Adam Harvey & Beccy Cole
An Affair of the Heart - Sara Storer and Graham Rodger
In Spite Of Ourselves - Kirsty Akers & Bob Evans
Millionaires - Beccy Cole & Kasey Chambers
Whistling Cannonballs - Shane Nicholson with Paul Kelly

Telstra New Talent of the Year
Katrina Burgoyne - Ghost
Luke Dickens - True Love Never Dies
Jason Lee - Ordinary Guy
O'Shea - Smash
Aleyce Simmonds - The Healing Hands Of Time

APRA Song of the Year
Bad Machines - written and recorded by Shane Nicholson
Butterfly - written and recorded by Tamara Stewart
Falling Into Place - written by Adam Harvey & Troy Cassar-Daley, recorded by Adam Harvey
The Mouth Of The River - written and recorded by Graeme Connors
Waitress - written and recorded by Beccy Cole

Video Clip of the Year
Children Of The Gurindji - Sara Storer & Kev Carmody, directed by Duncan Toombs
Dirt - Lee Kernaghan, directed by Rusty Gate Films
Famous Last Words - Shane Nicholson directed by Duncan Toombs
In Spite Of Ourselves - Kirsty Akers & Bob Evans, directed by Jason Millhouse
You Don't Know My Love - Adam Harvey, directed by Duncan Toombs

Single of the year
Bad Machines - Shane Nicholson
Dirt - Lee Kernaghan
Long Hot Summer - Keith Urban
Sweet Emmylou - Catherine Britt
You Don't Know My Love - Adam Harvey

Toyota Heritage Song of the Year
Australian Woman - written by Beccy Cole & Luke Austen, recorded by Beccy Cole
Bondwood Boat - written by Aleyce Simmonds & Graeme Connors, recorded by Aleyce Simmonds
I am Australian - written by Dobe Newton/ Bruce Woodley, recoded by The Bushwackers
The Mouth Of The River - written & recorded by Graeme Connors
The Old HR - written by Garry Koehler, recorded by The Bobkatz

Fender Instrumental of the Year
Arkansas Traveller - Mike Kerin, Ian Simpson & John Kane
Demolition Derby - Michael Fix with Brendan Radford
Locomotivation - Tommy Emmanuel
OMFG - Davidson Brothers
The Waves of Bondi - The Bushwackers

Bush Ballad of the Year
A Fencer From The Outback - written & recorded by Rod Williams
Channel Country Ground - written by Merv Maltman, recorded by Dean Perrett and Lee Kernaghan
Gentleman Joe - written by Dianne Lindsay & Peter Simpson, recorded by Dianne Lindsay
Kiandra Gold - written by Ben Jacobs & Shaza Leigh, recorded by Brian Letton
Son of The Red Dirt Country – written and recorded by Graham Rodger