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Lainey Wilson has been tapped to return as host for the 59th annual Country Music Association Awards. This will be Wilson’s second time hosting the show, but first time helming it solo. Last year, the country star was part of a hosting trio that also included fellow musician Luke Bryan …

Shaboozey and Zach Top will again compete for the Country Music Association’s award for New Artist of the Year, the first category revealed for the 59th annual CMA Awards. The New Artist of the Year nominees were revealed on Good Morning America on Monday. Along with Shaboozey and Top, the …

Nominations for the 59th annual CMA Awards were announced on Monday, and three of country music’s most popular female singers led all nominees. Ella Langley, Megan Moroney, and Lainey Wilson each scored six nominations, including one for Female Vocalist of the Year, where Kelsea Ballerini and Miranda Lambert were also …

J-Kwon, the rapper behind the 2004 earworm “Tipsy,” takes our Zoom call from his hometown of St. Louis, though he was just in Nashville the night before. He attended the ASCAP Country Music Awards, which celebrated the writers and publishers of the biggest songs in the genre – including Shaboozey’s …

Those in the know classify Dierks Bentley’s 2010 bluegrass detour, Up on the Ridge, as his best all-around album. During Wednesday night’s 2024 CMA Awards, the country singer scratched that string-music itch again, performing a version of Tom Petty’s 1977 anthem “American Girl” as a bluegrass rave-up with a trio …

Shaboozey was on a high coming into the 2024 CMA Awards, having received two nods in his debut year as a nominee and a performance slot to showcase a mix of his breakthrough hit “A Bar Song (Tipsy)” and his recent single “Highway.” But what should have been a night …

The 2024 CMA Awards opened with a performance that paired the traditional with the face-tattooed: Chris Stapleton and Post Malone took the stage on Wednesday night to perform “California Sober,” the duo’s collab on Posty’s F-1 Trillion album. Both Malone and Stapleton are nominated for Song and Single of the …

Shaboozey took another victory lap in his breakthrough year with his debut performance at the 2024 CMA Awards. The musician took the stage for an electric performance of his record-breaking single “A Bar Song (Tipsy),” which he preceded with a bit of his song “Highway.” “A Bar Song,” a juggernaut …

Kelsea Ballerini and Noah Kahan gave all the cowboys in Nashville permission to get a little teary-eyed at the 2024 CMA Awards. The pair took the stage for a performance of their anti-toxic-masculinity duet “Cowboys Cry Too,” a nominee for Musical Event of the Year. “In our world and culture …

It made perfect sense: The song Kacey Musgraves chose to perform at this year’s CMA Awards is also, by a long measure, the most traditionally country song on her 2024 album Deeper Well. It’s also, perhaps not coincidentally, the only song on the record co-written with her old Music Row …