The nominees for the 2024 CMT Music Awards have been announced, with Cody Johnson, Lainey Wilson, Jelly Roll, Kelsea Ballerini and Megan Moroney among the top nominees, with three nods each. Johnson is nominated for Video of the Year and Male Video of the Year, both for his recent No. 1 hit, “The Painter,” plus CMT Performance of the…
In 2023, country music saw a few records set and broken, a few surprises, a few disappointments, and a lot of new accomplishments and achievements. With that in mind, we are taking a look at who we think will have a big year in 2024, and why. 1. Jelly Roll will win a Grammy Award. Jelly Roll received his…
When Kelsea Ballerini wrote and recorded Rolling Up The Welcome Mat, it was her own way of coping with her divorce from fellow singer, Morgan Evans. At first, Ballerini wasn’t even sure she would release the collection of songs, never imagining that the six-song record would change the entire trajectory of her career. Instead, fans quickly latched onto the…
Talk about a hometown show Kelsea Ballerini will never forget. The East Tennessee native headlined a sold-out show at the Thompson-Boling Arena at Food City Center in Knoxville, Tennessee, where she was joined by Kenny Chesney, to perform their No. 1 single, “half of my hometown.” “I couldn’t wait for the day that I could play in Knoxville, Tennessee,”…
Kelsea Ballerini will headline a show next week at the Thompson-Boling Arena at Food City Center in Knoxville, Tennessee, her hometown. The 30-year-old grew up with the large venue as the backdrop to her childhood, never imagining that one day she would headline a show at the 21,600-seat venue, a show that would sell out in one hour. “It…
When Kelsea Ballerini released Rolling Up The Welcome Mat earlier this year, she had no idea how much the entire project would resonate with her fans. The reaction to the six songs, which Ballerini wrote as a reflection of her divorce from Morgan Evans after five years of marriage, was immediate, and unexpected. Ballerini penned the songs with Alysa…
Kenny Chesney‘s I Go Back Tour, which included Kelsea Ballerini as his opening act, is officially history. The country music superstar ended the tour with two back-to-back shows in Orange Beach, Alabama on May 26 and 27, adding the May 26 date after the tour had already been booked. “We usually close it down with a double,” Chesney says. “You…
Kelsea Ballerini was devastated when the coronavirus pandemic shut the world down in March of 2020, and with good reason. The Tennessee native released her third studio album, Kelsea, on March 20 of that year, with plans of embarking on what was supposed to be her biggest tour to date, when all of those plans, as well as promotion…
Kelsea Ballerini never imagined that people would still be talking about Rolling Up The Welcome Mat more than six weeks after it was released. The Tennessee native wrote all six songs on the EP as a way to cope with her mixed emotions about the end of her marriage to Morgan Evans, unaware that the entire project would gain a…
Kenny Chesney‘s I Go Back Tour kicks off on Thursday, March 23. The tour, which begins in Charlottesville, Virginia, is Chesney’s follow-up to his massive Here and Now Tour, which took place in 2022. “It always feels good when we have our road family back together,” Chesney says. “A lot happens over the winter, so we’re catching up. But…
