Four of the five nominees for entertainer of the year – Luke Combs, Jelly Roll, Chris Stapleton and Lainey Wilson – are set to perform on the 2024 CMA Awards, which will air live from Bridgestone Arena in Nashville on Wednesday (Nov. 20). Of the nominees for entertainer of the year, only Morgan Wallen has not been announced as a performer on the broadcast.
The show will be hosted by Luke Bryan, Peyton Manning and Wilson.
Combs will perform “Ain’t No Love in Oklahoma,” the opening track on Twisters: The Album. The song topped Billboard’s Country Airplay chart for two weeks in September and October. Jelly Roll will join Brooks & Dunn on a performance of their 2006 classic, “Believe.” The hit won both single and song of the year at the 2006 CMAs.
Stapleton will perform twice on the show. He will sing “What Am I Gonna Do,” the opening track from his album Higher. He will also team with Post Malone to perform their “California Sober” collaboration from Posty’s album F-1 Trillion LP. (For his part, Post will also perform “Yours,” the closing track from F-1 Trillion.)
Wilson will perform her single “4x4xU,” which is currently up to 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, a first-time nominee this year with two nods, will perform a medley of his breakthrough smash “A Bar Song (Tipsy)” — which has logged 17 weeks at No. 1 on the Billboard Hot 100 — and his new single, “Highway.”
Performing together for the first time, Thomas Rhett and Teddy Swims will offer a mash-up of Rhett’s “Somethin’ ’Bout a Woman,” from his new album About a Woman, and 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 on this year’s Petty Country: A Country Music Celebration ofTom Petty.
There will also be a star-studded tribute in honor of George Strait, this year’s recipient of the CMA Willie Nelson Lifetime Achievement Award.
This year’s CMAs will include performances of two of this year’s nominees for musical event of the year. Langley and Green will perform “you look like you love me,” which is currently No. 7 on the Country Airplay chart. Ballerini and Kahan will perform “Cowboys Cry Too,” which reached No. 27 on that chart in July.
Other performances set for the show include Moroney’s “Am I Okay?” Musgraves’ “The Architect” and Zimmerman’s “New to Country.”
Presenters on the show include a wide range of artists, actors and athletes. The Oak Ridge Boys will appear, just four months after the death of longtime member Joe Bonsall at age 76. Two nominees for new artist of the year, Nate Smith and Mitchell Tenpenny, are also set to present. Other country artists lined up to present 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 present during the show.
Actors set to take the stage include Jeff Bridges, Mark Collie, Don Johnson, Taylor Frankie Paul, Daniel Sunjata and Billy Bob Thornton. Olympic Gymnast Simone Biles and first baseman for the world champion Los Angeles Dodgers Freddie Freeman will also present.
Country Music’s Biggest Night is set to air live from Bridgestone Arena in Nashville on Wednesday from 8:00-11:00 p.m./ET. It will air on ABC be available for streaming the next day on Hulu.
The 58th Annual CMA Awards is 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.
Check out a complete list of performers and presenters below. If any additional names are announced, they will be added to this report.
Performers
Kelsea Ballerini
Dierks Bentley
Brooks & Dunn
Luke Bryan
Eric Church
Luke Combs
Riley Green
Sierra Hull
Jelly Roll
Cody Johnson
Noah Kahan
Bronwyn Keith-Hynes
Ella Langley
Ashley McBryde
Megan Moroney
Kacey Musgraves
Post Malone
Thomas Rhett
Shaboozey
Chris Stapleton
Teddy Swims
Molly Tuttle
Lainey Wilson
Bailey Zimmerman
Presenters
Simone Biles
Clint Black
Jeff Bridges
Mark Collie
Jordan Davis
Freddie Freeman
Don Johnson
Jackson Laux
Little Big Town
Dustin Lynch
Katharine McPhee
The Oak Ridge Boys
Taylor Frankie Paul
Carly Pearce
Caleb Pressley
Nate Smith
Daniel Sunjata
Mitchell Tenpenny
Billy Bob Thornton
