CMT Music Awards 2020: Performers, Hosts and Everything We Know About the Show

The Country Music Association is revealing additional performers for the 2020 CMA Awards!

Jade Bird has accidentally done just that. “We were trying to keep up with it last night but it’s so hard,” she says the morning after arriving in Nashville, when votes are still being counted across the States.This is the British singer-songwriter’s second trip to Music City this year.

Kanye West failed to make a competitive bid for president in the 2020 election against Donald Trump and Joe Biden.The rapper, 43, received approximately 60,000 votes across the 12 states in which his name appeared on the ballot. His highest tally was in Tennessee with 10,188 votes; however, the final number ended up being a mere 0.3 percent of the total vote in the state.

Chris Willman Music WriterCam (nee Camaron Ochs), a California girl turned Nashvillian, came out of the gate as a country music firebrand in 2015 with the massive hit “Burning House.” Then she waited five years to release a sophomore album, spending part of that time at odds with her record company (Sony Nashville) over “value” issues she’s reluctant to get specific about.

this is what I’m giving her,” she says, referring to the state of the country under the Trump administration, “gives me a stomachache.”Nabrynski and her fiancé moved to Tennessee after the 2016 election, in part out of a desire to have a more thoughtful political impact. “If Trump wins I’m certainly not going to roll over and throw my arms up in the air and give up and get so depressed like I did last time,” she says.

Elvis Presley, Willie Nelson, and Waylon Jennings.  Shaver was a Texas native who made his way to Nashville to further his country music career. While he had some trouble making a name for himself as a performer, he found success as a pioneering outlaw country songwriter.

NASHVILLE, Tennessee -- Carrie Underwood already had the most CMT Music Awards of any artist, but she'll need to make more room on her shelf.

2020 CMT Music Awards are taking place tonight, October 21, and it is turning out to be one seriously glam event.The 53rd annual affair was originally set to take place on June 3, but was postponed after a tornado ripped through central Tennessee. “Our top priority this last month has been rebuilding our hometown of Nashville following the tornado and ensuring the safety of our fans, employees, artists and partners during the COVID-19 crisis,” a CMT said in a press release in April.

2020 CMT Music Awards recognized the top names in country music with help from cohosts Ashley McBryde, Kane Brown and Sarah Hyland in Nashville on Wednesday, October 21.McBryde, 37, Dan + Shay, Kelsea Ballerini, Luke Combs, Sam Hunt and Thomas Rhett earned the most nominations with three each.

Adam Wright, “I Win” (Independent)Nashville songwriter Adam Wright may have sensed we could all use a laugh, and so he has released a witty antidote to 2020.Wright, whose compositions have been performed by such stars as Garth Brooks, Lee Ann Womack and Alan Jackson (his uncle), wisely kept these 12 tunes for himself.

Morgan Wallen is facing backlash after he spent the weekend partying with a crowd of people not wearing masks ahead of his Saturday Night Live debut performance.The “Whiskey Glasses” singer, 27, was spotted drinking and kissing several women while visiting Tuscaloosa, Alabama, according to multiple videos circulating on TikTok.

Variety Staff Follow Us on TwitterMusic agents Jeffrey Hasson (pictured at right) and Matt Meyer have joined UTA.  Both arrive from Paradigm with Hasson based in Nashville and Meyer in Los Angeles.Hasson got his start at Monterey Peninsula Artists in 2005 and has worked with such artists as Young The Giant, Tori Kelly, Surfaces, Jamey Johnson, Dashboard Confessional, and Blues Traveler, among others.Meyer began his career at electronic dance music agency AM Only, which was later acquired by

Patrick Hipes Executive Managing EditorUTA said Tuesday that it has hired music agents Jeffrey Hasson and Matt Meyer, who both had been at Paradigm. Hasson will join the leadership of the agency’s Nashville office, while Meyer will be based in Los Angeles.The latest moves in UTA Music’s ranks come less than two weeks after former WME Head of East Coast Music Samantha Kirby Yoh joined as co-head.