Jelly Roll is really on a roll. The powerful singer and colorful personality took home three top awards at the 2024 CMT Music Awards for the second year in a row. The awards, hosted by Kelsea Ballerini, were presented at the Moody Center in Austin, Texas on Sunday (April 7) and aired on CBS.
Jelly Roll took home Video of the Year, Male Video of the Year, and CMT Performance of the Year, all for “Need a Favor.” Last year, he won Male Video of the Year, Male Breakthrough Video of the Year and CMT Digital First Performance of the Year, all for “Son of a Sinner.”
“Need a Favor” peaked at No. 13 on the Billboard Hot 100. This is the third year in a row that the Music Video of the Year winner has had a top 15 hit Advertising signthe top song chart of all genres. “Thank God” by Kane Brown and Katelyn Brown, last year's winner, also reached No. 13. “If I Didn't Love You” by Jason Aldean and Carrie Underwood, the 2022 winner, reached No. 15 .
Jelly Roll is the first artist to win back-to-back Male Video of the Year awards since Blake Shelton won in 2013 and 2014 for “Sure Be Cool If You Did” and “Doin' What She Likes “, respectively.
Jelly Roll's award for CMT Performance of the Year was for his cover of “Need a Favor” at last year's CMT Music Awards. This year, he closed the show with a performance of 'Halfway to Hell'.
Lainey Wilson won Female Video of the Year for the second year in a row. He took the award for 'Watermelon Moonshine', having won last year for 'Heart Like a Truck'. She is the first woman to win in this major category two years in a row since Carrie Underwood won six years in a row from 2015-20. Wilson's win here was no surprise. It has collected seven awards at the CMA Awards in the past two years.
In addition to her win, Wilson performed two songs on the show — her own “Country's Cool Again” and a cover of Toby Keith's 1999 hit “How Do You Like Me Now?!” in a tribute to the late singer.
Dan + Shay won Duo/Group Video of the Year for “Save Me the Trouble.” The duo previously won video duo of the year three years running for 'Tequila' (2018), 'Speechless' (2019) and 'I Should Probably Go to Bed' (2020). (The CMT Awards' separate duet and group categories were combined in 2021. Now that they have three hours to fill, they'll have to make them separate awards again to comply with the CMA Awards and ACM Awards.)
Carly Pearce's 'We Don't Fight Anymore' featuring Chris Stapleton won collaborative video of the year. Both artists are past winners of the award for breakthrough video of the year. Pearce won in 2018 for “Every Little Thing.” Stapleton in 2016 for “Fire Away.”
Ashley Cooke and Warren Zeiders won the awards for Breakthrough Female and Male Video of the Year, respectively. Many previous winners in the CMT New Artist category have gone on to have very significant careers, including Dierks Bentley, Carrie Underwood, Taylor Swift, Zac Brown Band, Luke Bryan, Florida Georgia Line, Sam Hunt and Ashley McBryde, in addition to the previous ones, Stapleton said. Pearce and Jelly Roll.
Trisha Yearwood received the June Carter Cash Humanitarian Award. “June Carter Cash was a force, and she was also married to a force – and I know a little about that,” he said while accepting the award. She added that she and her husband, Garth Brooks, try to live by the saying, “To whom much is given, much is expected.” Yearwood also performed the tender ballad “Put It in a Song.”
Host Ballerini was nominated for three awards – video of the year, female video of the year and CMT performance of the year – but did not win. But she scored with a performance of “Love Me Like You Mean It.”
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