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Chris Stapleton brought along a surprise guest to the ACM Awards stage: Dua Lipa joined the country star for a soulful performance of “Think I’m in Love With You.” Written solo by Stapleton for his 2023 album, Higher, “Think I’m in Love With You” is already groovy as a studio …

Jason Aldean paid tribute to Toby Keith at the 2024 ACM Awards, performing an elegantly low-key version of “Should’ve Been a Cowboy,” Keith’s 1993 debut single, backed by a string quartet. Blake Shelton introduced the performance, honoring his fellow Oklahoma native. The audience singing along was loud and clear as …

Posty goes ACMs: After months of teasing his crossover into country, Post Malone participated in one of the genre’s biggest nights as he performed his new single “I Had Some Help” as well as the track “Never Love You Again” at the Academy of Country Music Awards. Malone, a Texas …

Lainey Wilson, Chris Stapleton, Dan + Shay, and Old Dominion were among the winners at the 2024 ACM Awards. Wilson won her first ACM Entertainer of the Year trophy. Reba McEntire hosted the show, live on Prime Video from Frisco, Texas. 2024 ACM Awards Winners List Entertainer of the YearKane …

Fresh off winning the New Male Artist trophy at the Academy of Country Music Awards, Nate Smith teamed with Avril Lavigne to perform their new single, “Bulletproof,” on the show. The studio version of the song dropped early Thursday morning. “Been taking these shots, shots, shots, 80, 90, everything they’ve …

Elle King offered the most detailed account of her disastrous performance at the Grand Ole Opry’s Dolly Parton tribute show earlier this year — and the incredible kindness Parton showed her afterward — on Chelsea Handler’s Dear Chelsea podcast. As King herself acknowledged, she committed a “big no-no” at the …

Dua Lipa surprised the crowd at the ACM Awards Thursday night when she joined Chris Stapleton for a duet of his song “Think I’m in Love With You.” The pop star revealed it was actually her who hit up Stapleton to collaborate. “It was my idea,” said Lipa in the …

Lainey Wilson opened the 2024 Academy of Country Music Awards with a one-two punch of country flair: a cover of Little Texas’s 1993 hit “God Blessed Texas” and the TV debut of her own “Hang Tight Honey.” Flanked by her road band (with whom she recorded her upcoming album Whirlwind), …

It is possible to be “scared of nothin’ and … scared to death” at the same, at least so says Luke Combs, who holds his own bellowing about the virtues of the Sooner State over a torrent of wind and rain in the video for his new song, “Ain’t No …

The singer who provided the “vocal bed” for Randy Travis on the country legend’s A.I.-assisted “Where That Came From” will perform all of Travis’s 16 Number One hits at Nashville’s Ryman Auditorium on June 5. James Dupré will sub for Travis, who lost most of his ability to speak after …