Inside Luke Combs' Fast Rise from Couch Potato to CMA Awards Nominee

Luke Combs is one of the year’s biggest breakout country stars, and nothing illustrates his fast rise more than looking back at where he sat during last year’s CMA Awards show.
“A year ago,” he tells PEOPLE, “I was watching TV, eating pizza at a buddy of mine’s house, and we were talking about how I was hopefully going to be there next year.”
This year, he not only got a nod from the CMA with a New Artist nomination (a prize Jon Pardi took home), but he