The 2024 CMA Awards telecast will be filled with performers who’ve had crossover success on different charts this year, including Post Malone, Shaboozey and Teddy Swims, as well as stalwarts of the genre like Lainey Wilson, Chris Stapleton and Luke Bryan, all announced Thursday as part of the first round of talent revealed for the Nov. 20 show.
Wilson and Bryan were shoo-ins to perform on this year’s CMAs, as they were already announced as co-hosts, along with Peyton Manning. Other big country names to come up in the first round of performers included Dierks Bentley, Thomas Rhett and Ashley McBryde.
The CMAs have already announced what these performers will be doing when they take to the Bridgestone Arena stage in just under two weeks, including some star-powered duets or medleys. Among these collaborations, Post Malone and Stapleton will be performing “California Sober” together.
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Rhett and Swims will do what is described as a mashup of “Something ‘Bout a Woman” and “Lose Control,” their recent respective hits. And Bentley will be joined by some top roots performers — Molly Tuttle, Sierra Hull and Bronwyn Keith-Hynes — to bring Tom Petty’s “American Girl” to countrified life.
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Among the solo performances slated, Shaboozey will do a medley of his still-Hot-100-topping “A Bar Song (Tipsy)” and the new single “Highway.” Wilson will sing her current single, “4x4xU,” and her co-host Bryan will perform “Love You, Miss You, Mean It.” Malone and Stapleton will both get solo turns in the spotlight as well as their duet, with Malone singing “Yours” from his recent all-country album and Stapleton performing “What Am I Gonna Do.”
The CMA Awards telecast airs at 8 p.m. ET/PT on ABC Nov. 20, with next-day availability on Hulu.
