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Nov 10
ABC/CMAs The biggest names in country music were honored at the 56th annual Country Music Association Awards Wednesday night. Here is the complete list of the 2022 CMA Award winners: Entertainer of the Year Luke Combs Female Vocalist of the Year Lainey Wilson Male Vocalist of the Year Chris Stapleton Single of the Year “’Til …
Nov 09
The Metropolitan Transportation Agency (MTA) has released a limited-edition run of Dolly Parton-themed MetroCards in honor of her new greatest hits album. Fifty thousand Dolly-themed MetroCards will be distributed across four high-traffic subway stops in midtown Manhattan. Toby Keith won the BMI Icon Award at the BMI Awards on Tuesday night, celebrating his lifetime of achievements …
Nov 09
Frederick Breedon/Getty Images for The Recording Academy Zac Brown Band is nominated for Vocal Group of the Year at the 2022 CMA Awards, and frontman Zac Brown says he’d love to be able to score a win for the home team. “I would love [to win], really, for my band,” the singer tells ABC Audio. “They …
Nov 09
ABC/Connie Chornuk Parker McCollum stands to win his first-ever CMA trophy tonight, November 9: He’s up in the New Artist of the Year category, but if it were up to him, that award would go to one of the other nominees in the category: Cody Johnson. “You know, it’d be a disappointment to me if …
Nov 09
Danielle Del Valle/Getty Images Old Dominion has a four-year winning streak in the CMA Vocal Group of the Year category, but that doesn’t mean they think the category’s a sure thing. “It really is such a close — it’s hard to say competition, because this is not a competition — but it really could go …
Nov 09
ABC/Art Streiber Falling the day after the U.S. midterm elections, the 2022 CMA Awards comes at a particularly tense moment in the country’s ever-divisive political climate. But Luke Bryan has always believed that Americans have more commonalities than they do differences, and he’s hoping to underscore that point with a performance of his unifying top-ten …
Nov 09
ABC/Heidi Gutman Most artists only get one award show cycle to celebrate a big song, but Kelsea Ballerini lucked into two. Her song, “Half of My Hometown,” won her her very first CMA trophies last year for Musical Event of the Year and Music Video of the Year. Now, in 2022, the song is nominated …
Nov 09
Mickey Bernal/Getty Images Jordan Davis is up for two CMA trophies leading up to tonight’s awards show, both surrounding his massive hit, “Buy Dirt,” a gratitude anthem that reflects on the importance of family, friends and faith. Those values are at the heart of the song: Jordan recorded it as a duet with his superstar …
Nov 09
ABC/Robby Klein It’ll be a full-circle moment when Dierks Bentley steps onstage at the CMA Awards tonight, November 9, to honor living legend Alan Jackson. “I mean, he was one of the first guys I listened to when I got turned on to country music in ‘94,” Dierks reminisces to ABC Audio. In fact, AJ was …
Nov 09
Chris Douglas Cody Johnson is headed into tonight’s CMA Awards already a winner: He won Music Video of the Year for “‘Til You Can’t” in an early victory ahead of the ceremony. He’s still got three nominations in the running: Two in the artist-focused categories of New Artist of the Year and Male Vocalist of …
