Last year, an ailing Toby Keith received the award. He died a little more than four months later of stomach cancer.
Gibney and veteran TV journalist Jane Pauley will receive lifetime achievement awards.
Lenny Kravitz will perform on the show for the first time since 1998. Benson Boone is also booked.
Goldstone worked with Stein at Sire Records from 2003-2008.
England will be honored with the T.J. Martell Foundation's lifetime music industry award.
The ceremony will take place in Nashville in September.
"Getting this award just sort of gives me, I don’t know, credibility in my mind that I’m not an old-timer," says Brown.
Six of the 11 artists being honored have topped Billboard’s Hot R&B/Hip-Hop Songs chart.
It would be her 16th total nod, more than any other woman in the history of the category.
Jackson Dean will perform a Glen Campbell classic as part of a special segment.
