Four of the five Entertainer of the Year nominees – Luke Combs, Jelly Roll, Chris Stapleton and Lainey Wilson – are set to perform at the 2024 CMA Awards, which will air live from the Bridgestone Arena in Nashville on Wednesday (November 20). Of the Entertainer of the Year nominees, only Morgan Wallen has not been announced as a performer on the show.
The show will be hosted by Luke Bryan, Peyton Manning and Wilson.
Combs will perform “Ain't No Love in Oklahoma,” the opening track Twisters: The album. The song reached the top Bulletin boardof the Country Airplay chart for two weeks in September and October. Jelly Roll will join Brooks & Dunn for a performance of their 2006 classic “Believe.” The hit won both single and song of the year at the 2006 CMAs.
Stapleton will appear twice in the show. He will sing 'What Am I Gonna Do', the opening track from his album Higher up. He will also team up with Post Malone to perform their collaboration “California Sober” from the Posty album F-1 Tris LP. (For his part, Post will also perform “Yous,” the latest track from F-1 Tris.)
Wilson will perform her single '4x4xU', which is currently at No. 21 on Billboard's Country Airplay chart. Her co-host Bryan will take the stage for “Love You, Miss You, Mean It,” which reached No. 2 on Country Airplay last month, becoming his 36th top 10 hit on that chart.
Shaboozey, nominated for the first time this year with two nods, will perform a medley of his breakthrough song “A Bar Song (Tipsy)” – which has spent 17 weeks at No. 1 on the Billboard Hot 100 – and his new single, “Freeway.”
Performing together for the first time, Thomas Rhett and Teddy Swims will deliver a mash-up of Rhett's 'Somethin' 'Bout a Woman, from his new album. About a womanand Swims' “Lose Control,” a recent No. 1 hit on the Hot 100.
Dierks Bentley will be joined by Molly Tuttle, Sierra Hull and Bronwyn Keith-Hynes for a performance of Tom Petty's 1976 classic “American Girl.” Bentley performed the rock classic at this year's Petty Country: A Country Music Celebration ofTom Petty.
There will also be a star-studded tribute to George Strait, this year's recipient of the CMA Willie Nelson Lifetime Achievement Award.
This year's CMAs will feature performances by two of this year's Music Event of the Year nominees. Langley and Green will perform “you look like you love me”, which is currently at No. 7 on the Country Airplay chart. Ballerini and Kahan will perform “Cowboys Cry Too,” which reached No. 27 on this chart in July.
Other acts set for the show include 'Am I Okay?' of Moroney? Musgraves' “The Architect” and Zimmerman's “New to Country.”
The show's presenters include a wide range of artists, actors and athletes. The Oak Ridge Boys will perform, just four months after longtime member Joe Bonsall died aged 76. Two nominees for New Artist of the Year, Nate Smith and Mitchell Tenpenny, are also set to perform. Other country artists to perform include Clint Black, Jordan Davis, Little Big Town, Dustin Lynch and Carly Pearce. Pop singer and entertainer Katharine McPhee will also be on hand to perform during the show.
Actors scheduled to take the stage include Jeff Bridges, Mark Collie, Don Johnson, Taylor Frankie Paul, Daniel Sunjata and Billy Bob Thornton. Also featured will be Olympic champion Simone Biles and world champion Los Angeles Dodgers first baseman Freddie Freeman.
Country Music's Biggest Night is set to air live from the Bridgestone Arena in Nashville on Wednesday from 8:00-11:00 PM/ET. It will air on ABC and be available to stream the next day on Hulu.
The 58th Annual CMA Awards are a production of the Country Music Association. Robert Deaton is the executive producer. Alan Carter is the director and Jon Macks is the head writer.
See the full list of performers and presenters below. If additional names are announced, they will be added to this report.
Interpreters
Kelsea Ballerini
Dierks Bentley
Brooks & Dunn
Luke Bryan
Eric Church
Luke Combs
Riley Green
Sierra Hal
Jelly roll
Cody Johnson
Noah Kahan
Bronwyn Keith-Hynes
Come on Langley
Ashley McBryde
Megan Moroney
Kacey Musgraves
Post Malone
Thomas Ret
Shaboozey
Chris Stapleton
Teddy Swims
Molly Tuttle
Laney Wilson
Bailey Zimmerman
Presenters
Simon Biles
Clint Black
Jeff Bridges
Mark Colley
Jordan Davis
Freddie Freeman
Don Johnson
Jackson Lox
Little Big City
Dustin Lynch
Katharine McPhee
The Oak Ridge Boys
Taylor Frankie Paul
Carly Pierce
Caleb Pressley
Nate Smith
Daniel Sunjata
Mitchell Tenpenny
Billy Bob Thornton
from our partners at https://www.billboard.com/music/awards/2024-cma-awards-presenters-performers-full-list-1235831597/
