Post Malone, Lainey Willson To Perform On CMA Awards
The Country Music Association and ABC have announced the initial lineup of performers for The 58th Annual CMA Awards.
The lineup includes a mix of first-time nominees and performers, along with country music favorites and reigning CMA Awards winners, including Post Malone, Luke Bryan, Ashley McBryde, Shaboozey, Chris Stapleton, Thomas Rhett, and Lainey Wilson.
Hosted by Luke Bryan, Peyton Manning and Lainey Wilson, the CMA Awards airs live from Bridgestone Arena in Nashville, Wednesday, Nov. 20 (8:00-11:00 PM/ET) on ABC and is available next day on Hulu.
Performances:
Luke Bryan will take the stage to perform his 31st No. 1 hit “Love You, Miss You, Mean It.”
First-time CMA Awards host, reigning CMA Entertainer of the Year, and four-time nominee this year, Lainey Wilson will perform her current single “4x4xU.”
First-time nominee this year with four nods, Post Malone is set to perform “Yours,” his song inspired by his daughter.
Shaboozey, a first-time nominee this year with two nods, performs a medley of his multi-Platinum breakthrough, “A Bar Song (Tipsy)” and new single “Highway.”
Reigning CMA Male Vocalist and five-time nominee this year, Chris Stapleton will take the stage to perform his song “What Am I Gonna Do.”
Additional performers and presenters for The 58th Annual CMA Awards will be announced in the weeks ahead.
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A couple of years ago, when Malone started to talk about his love of country music, he posted a video of himself covering a Brad Paisley song. At the time, Brad joked on social media that he was Post Malone’s songwriter.
Flash forward to today and Brad is just one of the many country stars on Malone’s new album F-1 Trillion.
We interviewed Brad recently, and he told us his thoughts on Post Malone and his love of the country genre. He said, “He deserves to be welcomed because of his love for it and his immersion to it. I know how many hours of sleep I’m never gonna get back from working with him and the amount of dedication, and hours, and blood sweat, and tears, and liver damage that he has been doing (laughs).”
He added of his friend, “He’s been working really hard on becoming a country artist and it’s not some whim and sometimes over the years. We’ve all seen the foray into country music by people that are like, ‘I’ll try this for a moment.’ That’s not what he’s doing. I get the feeling this was his goal all along; he’s just that serious about it. He did it great and with his record, nobody has any complaints. It’s just really cool, and it’s been really eye-opening to see the creative process that he does so different than mine.”
Paisley concluded, “He will work all the time on music and he just will not stop. I’m thrilled for him.”
