Morgan Wallen and Luke Combs Tie as BMI’s Songwriters of the Year, Sing Each Other’s Songs at Ceremony; Matraca Berg Lands Icon Honor

Natalie Weiner Reports of Maren Morris leaving country music have been greatly exaggerated. “You don’t fight for what you don’t love,” says Morris over Zoom during a chat from her Nashville home, squeezed in while her son Hayes is taking a nap.

St Joseph’s College’s Chris Rossi has been presented with a physics teacher of the year award.

The best fish and chips takeaway and Italian restaurants across Scotland have been crowned.

It has been reported that the Duke and Duchess of Sussex are eager to build bridges with King Charles III and the Royal Family, with them even happy to accept an invitation to Sandringham this Christmas, however, it has now been revealed that Meghan Markle has no desire to return to England - ever again.

Morgan Wallen was among the top winners at this year’s Billboard Music Awards despite his racism controversy.The country star won a total of 11 categories including top male artist and album, single of the year, top country artist, top streaming songs artist and top country touring artist. During his acceptance speech, he said: “Last awards show I went to we came home empty-handed and this one I don’t have enough hands for them all.”The country star was banned from 2021’s ceremony – among other awards shows – after footage of him using a racial slur surfaced online.

It was a big night for Taylor Swift and Morgan Wallen at the 2023 Billboard Music Awards as they both took the most trophies.

William Earl Morgan Wallen and Taylor Swift were the big winners at the 2023 Billboard Music Awards, which broadcast live on multiple platforms Sunday night. Wallen led the winners list with 11, Swift was close behind with 10; Drake had five, Zach Bryan and SZA four, and 21 Savage, Bad Bunny, Beyonce and Miley Cyrus all scored three.

The 2023 Billboard Music Awards is being held today, November 19, and it’s not your typical awards show. This year, Billboard is featuring a revamped format.

Chris Willman Senior Music Writer and Chief Music Critic In a time when country music is suddenly flusher with credible newcomers than it has been in a lot of years, Megan Moroney is one of the freshest of the fresh — with a clever debut single, “Tennessee Orange,” that stands as one of the best No. 1 singles the format has wrought recently, from an album, “Lucky,” that bears no skips among its 16 deluxe-edition tracks.

There were so many celebs in attendance at the 2023 GQ Men of the Year party in Los Angeles this year, with Kim Kardashian, Megan Thee Stallion, and Megan Fox among those bringing star power to the event.

" way while simultaneously giving grunge and . The “Havana” singer's “vintage-inspired half moon” mani is the best of both worlds (and, selfishly, a fantastic way to appease both my Libra sun and Aquarius moon.

Country star Morgan Wallen will return for a second consecutive year to perform at the 2023 Billboard Music Awards. Wallen will perform the fan-favorite “98 Braves” at the Atlanta Braves home field Truist Park amid his sold-out tour. Wallen is up for 16 awards with 17 finalist entries, including Top Artist, Top Male Artist, Top Billboard 200 Artist, and Top Hot 100 Artist. He joins previously announced BBMA performers David Guetta and Bebe Rexha, Karol G, NewJeans, andPeso Pluma.

full list of 2024 Grammy nominees here. SURPRISE: Women take all. Well, not all, but you get the idea.

Sam Heughan has wasted no time getting back to work after the long-running Sag-Aftra strike in Hollywood came to an end this week.

Chris Willman Senior Music Writer and Chief Music Critic These weren’t your grandfather’s CMA Awards… or even yours, from, say five years ago. A new generation has been firmly installed, between the big look for Lainey Wilson, who is only on her second major-label album but was named entertainer of the year, and other winners from Luke Combs to Hardy, who were also unknown a decade ago. When Chris Stapleton suddenly nearly seems like the “old guard” after only six years of accruing awards, things have changed.

Tracy Chapman has made country music history at this year’s instalment of the Country Music Association Awards.The milestone comes as her 35-year-old hit song ‘Fast Car’ was named both song and single of the year at the 2023 awards ceremony in Nashville.Despite being released back in 1988 as the lead single from Chapman’s self-titled debut album, the song won the awards due to the recent cover from American singer-songwriter Luke Combs.Released earlier this year, the rendition reached the Number Two spot in the US singles chart and Number 30 on the UK charts.However, the win for Combs also marked a long-overdue milestone for the original songwriter, as it meant that Chapman became the first Black songwriter to win Song of the Year in the award’s 57-year history.“First and foremost, I want to thank Tracy Chapman for writing one of the best songs of all time,” Combs said, accepting the award and calling the prize “an honour”. “I just recorded it because I loved the song.

said in a prewritten speech. “It’s truly an honor for my song to be newly recognized after 35 years of its debut.”“Thank you to the CMAs and a special thanks to Luke and all of the fans of ‘Fast Car,'” the statement concluded.“Fast Car” beat out “Heart of a Truck,” “Next Thing You Know,” “Tennessee Orange,” and “Wait in the Truck.”Song of the Year wasn’t the only award the song won Wednesday night as it also took home Single of the Year, which is awarded to the recording artist, Luke Combs.Combs’ cover of Chapman’s hit quickly shot to No.

Post Malone, Morgan Wallen and Hardy took the stage together at Wednesday’s CMA Awards to pay tribute to the late country legend Joe Diffie. Wallen and Hardy started together, running through Diffie’s 1993 song “John Deere Green,” before welcoming Malone to the stage to sing the 1994 hit “Pickup Man” as a trio. While Post Malone is most strongly associated with hip-hop and pop, he has shown his love of the country genre before with numerous covers of songs in the genre, like “I’m Gonna Miss Her (The Fishin’ Song)” by Brad Paisley, “You Can Have the Crown” by Sturgill Simpson and “There’s a Tear in My Beer” by Hank Williams.

Post Malone carries a red Solo cup while posing on the red carpet with Morgan Allen at the 2023 CMA Awards held at Bridgestone Arena on Wednesday (November 8) in Nashville, Tenn.

Singer and Yellowstone TV star Lainey Wilson came into the 2023 Country Music Assn. Awards as the leading nominee, and she lived up to that advance billing by taking home five trophies Wednesday including the top honor Entertainer of the Year.