Morgan Wallen Championed by Billboard Awards With Top Country Award and a Performance Slot for ‘Jesus’ Single

Morgan Wallen will receive the Academy of Country Music Milestone Award and Yellowstone the ACM Film Award at the 15th Annual Academy of Country Music Honors on Wednesday, August 24 in Nashville.

Chris Willman Senior Music Writer and Chief Music CriticThe recipients of the Academy of Country Music’s annual “ACM Honors” for 2022 were announced Wednesday, with the honorees at the ACM’s industry-centric adjunct ceremony in August to include Morgan Wallen, Shania Twain, Miranda Lambert, Chris Stapleton, ASCAP exec Connie Bradley and the television series “Yellowstone.”The ceremony will take place August 14 at the Ryman Auditorium in Nashville. The show is not to be confused with the org’s competitive ACM Awards broadcast, which took place March 7 at Las Vegas’ Allegiant Stadium and went out over Prime Video this year.

Country comeback. Morgan Wallen is opening up about how being a father helped him “grow” in the wake of his N-word scandal.

Morgan Wallen took home the award for top country male artist at the 2022 Billboard Music Awards. "I got the best d--- fans," Wallen said during his acceptance speech. "Thank you to my momma for being my date tonight.

Travis Scott and Morgan Wallen made controversial returns on the Billboard Music Awards stage on Sunday, while Mary J. Blige was honored for her musical excellence.Wallen performed in his first major awards show after he was caught on camera more than a year ago using a racial slur. After not receiving a verbal introduction, the country star sat alongside his four-piece band and performed “Don’t Think Jesus” then his chart-topping “Wasted on You,” a single from his popular project “Dangerous: The Double Album.”Shortly after his performance, rapper Pusha T presented Wallen with the top country artist award.“I want to say, ‘Thank God.’ And thank my fans.

Kylie Jenner and her sisters Kim, Khloe and Kendall were nowhere to be seen at Kourtney’s official wedding to her rocker beau, Travis Barker, in Santa Barbara on Sunday. Instead, 24 year old billionaire Kylie Jenner walked the red carpet at the Billboard music awards in Las Vegas with her rapper boyfriend and father of her two children, Travis Scott, 31.The Kylie Cosmetics founder looked immaculate in a figure-hugging silver dress that had the silhouette of a woman printed on it. She wore her dark hair slicked back from her face and accessorised with chunky gold bracelets and matching heels.

It was a night of redemption at the Billboard Music Awards on Sunday night.First, there was country star Morgan Wallen — who had been banned from performing at the Grammys and the Country Music Association Awards for a video that surfaced in early 2021 of him using the N-word — getting the chance to take the stage at the MGM Grand Arena in Las Vegas. He milked the opportunity by going gospel for maximum sympathy with his song “Don’t Think Jesus.” Then there was Travis Scott performing publicly for the first time since last December’s Astroworld tragedy that killed 10 concertgoers.

Travis Scott and Morgan Wallen returned to the stage at the 2022 Billboard Music Awards. This marks the first major televised appearances these music stars have made since their respective controversies last year.

Morgan Wallen took to the stage to perform at this year’s Billboard Music Awards after previously being cancelled for his use of the N-word.

Morgan Wallen’s performance.The country star was banned from last year’s ceremony – among other awards shows – after footage of him using a racial slur surfaced online.However, it was announced in the days leading up to the event that Wallen would be performing at this year’s ceremony, which is being held tonight (May 15) at Las Vegas’ MGM Grand Garden Arena. In the minutes before he took to the stage, civil rights activist Tamika Mallory was given an award and delivered a message about social justice and anti-racism.The BBMAs 2022 also opened with a message offering condolences to the victims of a mass shooting in Buffalo, New York, which saw 10 people killed in a racially motivated attack, and another shooting in Laguna Words, California in which one person was killed.Wallen performed his tracks ‘Don’t Think Jesus’ and ‘Wasted Alone’ at the ceremony.

Thania Garcia In his first televised performance since the Astroworld disaster last fall, Travis Scott performed his song “Mafia” on the Billboard Music Awards, on a polar-themed set reminiscent of “Game of Thrones.”The camera slowly zoomed in on him inside a cave-like room framed by a polar scene, wearing a fur-and-white outfit as he launched into the song surrounded by similarly garbed dancers. All of them lurched around fake bolders and ice slabs; the scene would suddenly lurch into a surreal, blurry black background like some parallel dimension.He performed a brief segment of a new song — presumably from his forthcoming album, “Utopia” — before the performance ended abruptly, followed, naturally enough, by Morgan Wallen accepting an award presented by Pusha T.

Morgan Wallen took to the stage to perform at this year’s Billboard Music Awards after previously being cancelled for his use of the N-word.

2022 Billboard Music Awards.The previously “canceled” 29-year-old performed not one, but two songs Sunday night a year after a February 2021 video of him surfaced drunkenly calling his friend the N-word and other expletives went viral.“F— Morgan Wallen and this Jim Crow music,” one user wrote. “With what just happened in Buffalo, we coulda cut him from the lineup.

Morgan Wallen is giving props to his son. ET's Cassie DiLaura spoke to the country music singer at the 2022 Billboard Music Awards in Las Vegas Sunday night, where he shared how his son has helped his «grow» over the past year.«I think mostly I can attribute it to being a dad,» Wallen said of his growth over the last year, which he attributes to one-year-old Indigo, who he shares with KT Smith.