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Kane Brown and Jelly Roll made history at the 2023 CMT Music Awards, which were presented on Sunday at Moody Center in Austin, Texas. The show aired on CBS for the second year in a row.
Brown became the first person in 20 years to both host or co-host the show and win the top award, video of the year. He co-hosted with Kelsea Ballerini for the third year in a row. He won video of the year for “Thank God,” his hit duet with his wife Katelyn Brown. The last person to accomplish this double feat was Toby Keith, who co-hosted the 2003 CMT Music Awards with actress Pamela Anderson and took the video of the year award for his post-9/11 song “Courtesy of the Red, White & Blue (The Angry American).”
This is the third year in a row that a collaborative video has won video of the year. “If I Didn’t Love You” by Jason Aldean and Carrie Underwood won last year. “Hallelujah” by Underwood featuring John Legend won two years ago.
Jelly Roll won both male video of the year and breakthrough male video of the year for “Son of a Sinner.” This marks the fourth time in the show’s history that someone has won the award for the year’s top male, female, group or duo video and a breakthrough award in the same year. In 2005, Gretchen Wilson took female video of the year for “When I Think About Cheatin’” and breakthrough video of the year for “Redneck Woman.” The following year, Underwood took both awards for “Jesus, Take the Wheel.” In 2013, Florida Georgia Line took breakthrough video and duo video of the year for “Cruise.”
Underwood didn’t add to her record-setting collection of 25 CMT Music Awards. She was nominated for video of the year for “Hate My Heart,” but lost to the Browns’ smash. She was nominated for female video of the year for “Ghost Story,” but lost to Lainey Wilson’s “Heart Like a Truck.” This marks the first time in 12 years that Underwood hasn’t won in at least one of those marquee categories.
Wilson, who led the pack with four nominations, won two: female video of the year for “Heart Like a Truck” and collaborative video of the year for her featured role on HARDY’s “wait in the truck.” HARDY and Wilson beat the Browns’ “Thank God” in the latter category, though there was a reversal of fortune in the video of the year category where the two videos again competed.
Zac Brown Band took group/duo video of the year for “Out in the Middle.” It’s their second win in the group video category, following a 2019 win for “Someone I Used to Know.” Rascal Flatts is the top winner in the category, with seven wins, followed by Lady A with five and Little Big Town with four.
Cody Johnson’s performance of “Til You Can’t” on last year’s CMT Music Awards won for CMT performance of the year. Johnson won male video of the year for the smash at last year’s show.
Megan Moroney’s “Tennessee Orange” won breakthrough female video of the year.
Leave it to Saweetie and will.i.am to tear up the That’s My Jam stage. The duo teamed up on Tuesday night’s (April 4) episode to play Mega Mix Showdown, in which the players trade off lyrics to songs under a single category.
As if by fate, the category chosen was throwback rap, and the hip-hop superstars stepped up to the plate and performed partial covers of classics like Ice Cube’s “It Was a Good Day,” Outkast’s “Ms. Jackson,” DMX’s “Party Up (Up in Here),” The Notorious B.I.G.’s “Hypnotize,” TLC’s “No Scrubs” and many more.
Their performance was met by a standing ovation from the audience, plus fellow contestants Keke Palmer and Joel McHale, as Fallon ran over to the duo and declared, “That’s how you do it!”
Season two of NBC’s popular variety show premiered in early March. The show, hosted and executive produced by Jimmy Fallon, features challenges inspired by popular Tonight Show segments. In each episode, two teams of two celebrities compete for a charity of their choice in a series of music, dance and trivia-based games and musical performances.
Watch Saweetie and will.i.am’s Mega Mix Showdown below, and catch the full episode of That’s My Jam on Tuesday (April 4) at 10 p.m. ET/PT, before it becomes available to stream next day on Peacock, which you can sign up for here. You can also catch the entire first season and previous episodes on Peacock.
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Chlöe Bailey is celebrating the release of her debut album, In Pieces, with a T-shirts, hoodies and a baseball cap that fans can cop right now. The “Pray It Away” singer rocked platform heels from Jennifer Lopez’s shoe collaboration with Revolve to showcase the album merch on Instagram on Saturday (April 1).
“In Pieces merch looks good on me, don’t ya think?” Chlöe captioned the gallery of photos and videos wearing an In Pieces album cover tee with black stiletto, over-the-knee boots. Another photo shows Chlöe in an album-cover hooded sweatshirt, short shorts and Beverly Platform Heels ($180) from the JLo by Jennifer Lopez x Revolve capsule collection.
The JLo by Jennifer Lopez x Revolve Beverly Platform Heel is available in silver and black in sizes ranging from 6-10. The shimmery shoe features a six-inch heel, two-inch platform, faux patent leather and PVC upper with a manmade sole, ankle buckle closure, faux leather lining with a crystal embellished spool heel and platform. Lopez’s 12-piece collection includes sandals, boots, mules and platforms priced at $150 and up.
The Swarm actress has had a busy past few months leading up to the album release. Chlöe attended the launch of Lopez’s shoe collab with Revolve alongside her sister, Hailey Bailey, in Beverly Hills, Calif., last month and in February, Chlöe debuted in a Beats by Dre commercial featuring new colorways of Beats Fit Pro earbuds now available in tidal blue, stone purple and volt yellow.
On the music front, Chlöe revealed that she produced nearly all of the songs on her album during a Twitter Q&A on Monday (April 3) ahead of the premiere of her new movie, Praise This, debuting on Peacock on April 7.
“I executive produced [the album], produced on 12 out of the 14 songs, wrote the lyrics, engineered my own self at times, just like [I] did [with] the [Chlöe x Halle] group records,” she tweeted in response to a fan asking if she had “complete creative freedom” on the album.
Shop Chlöe’s J Lo by Jennifer Lopez platform heels below.
J Lo by Jennifer Lopez x Revolve
One last ride! The Voice unveiled a hysterical new promo on Monday (April 3) for a fake Blake Shelton biopic starring his fellow coach Niall Horan.
In the clip, the camera pans from the country singer’s signature outfit of boots, jeans and a simple black overshirt only to reveal that the former One Direction-er had stepped into his role as a coach. “This is my last season,” Horan says in a near-perfect imitation of Shelton’s Oklahoma drawl as he re-enacts contestant Grace West’s blind audition. “I’ve got somethin’ to say to Grace: People of America are gon’ love you. I would be honored to have you on the last Team Blake.”
The faux trailer also features coaches Kelly Clarkson and Chance the Rapper and longtime host Carson Daly as themselves, as well as Horan playing double duty — and switching accents — to play himself. (“It all comes down to this,” a narrator states to close out the trailer. “One last ride… Blake Shelton’s final season.”)
Of course, the parody is all in good fun, and Shelton finally appears to give Horan’s impersonation his stamp of approval, saying, “I do think Niall does a great impression of me, I gotta say. He’s got the accent down pretty good, but he’s got the words down perfectly. I’m kind of enjoying having this mini-me here, it’s flattering.”
The coaches are currently in the midst of overseeing the Battles of season 23 — whittling their teams down to groups of just six singers each to advance to the Knockouts.
Watch Horan’s spot-on take on Shelton in the latest promo for The Voice below.
Director James Gunn got fans hyped for Guardians of the Galaxy Vol. 3 on Monday (April 3) when he unveiled the official film soundtrack, which features a variety of classic songs from all-time greats.
The Awesome Mix Vol. 3‘s track listing includes an acoustic version of Radiohead‘s “Creep,” Beastie Boys‘ “No Sleep Til Brooklyn,” Bruce Springsteen‘s “Badlands,” Alice Cooper‘s “I’m Always Chasing Rainbow,” The Mowgli’s‘ “San Francisco” and Florence + the Machine‘s “Dog Days Are Over,” among other hits.
The third installment of the popular Marvel Studios series stars Chris Pratt, Zoe Saldana, Dave Bautista, Karen Gillan and Pom Klementieff, plus features Vin Diesel as Groot and Bradley Cooper as Rocket. In the upcoming movie, the beloved band of misfits are settling into life on Knowhere, before their lives are rattled by Rocket’s turbulent past. Peter Quill rallies his team and heads out on dangerous mission to save Rocket’s life.
See the full Guardians of the Galaxy Vol. 3: Awesome Mix Vol. 3 track list below, and listen to it here before the film hits theaters on May 5.
“Creep” (Acoustic Version) – Performed by Radiohead
“Crazy On You” – Performed by Heart
“Since You Been Gone” – Performed by Rainbow
“In the Meantime” – Performed by Spacehog
“Reasons” – Performed by Earth, Wind and Fire
“Do You Realize??” – Performed by The Flaming Lips
“We Care a Lot” – Performed by Faith No More
“Koinu no Carnival” (From “Minute Waltz”) – Performed by EHAMIC
“I’m Always Chasing Rainbows” – Performed by Alice Cooper
“San Francisco” – Performed by The Mowgli’s
“Poor Girl” – Performed by X
“This Is the Day” – Performed by The The
“No Sleep Till Brooklyn” – Performed by Beastie Boys
“Dog Days Are Over” – Performed by Florence + The Machine
“Badlands” – Performed by Bruce Springsteen
“I Will Dare” – Performed by The Replacements
“Come and Get Your Love” – Performed by Redbone
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Carrie Underwood delivered her highly anticipated CMT Music Awards performance on Sunday night (April 2) when she unleashed her Denim & Rhinestones hit “Hate My Heart” onstage in front of the capitol building in Austin.
Fittingly dressed in a Queen of Hearts-inspired blazer, corset and shorts — and holding a heart-encrusted microphone — the country superstar delivered the track as fireworks blasted off behind her. “Hate My Heart” was up for video of the year at this year’s ceremony, though it ultimately lost to Kane and Katelyn Brown’s “Thank God.”
Underwood’s “Ghost Story” was also nominated for female video of the year.
The singer is no stranger to the CMT Music Awards, as she’s taken home 25 total trophies throughout her career. She also has the most video of the year wins and female video of the year wins of any artist.
“I wanted to have fun from the get-go,” the 40-year-old star previously told Billboard of Denim & Rhinestones, which debuted at No. 2 on Billboard‘s Top Country Albums chart. “That was definitely mission No. 1. With some other albums, it took me writing for a while before I figured out where the album’s gonna go. It’s got a lot of vintage sparkle. It’s not solidly throwback, but we have a couple of songs that are a little more ’70s feel and some that are in the ’80s pop world and some ’90s rock stuff, and obviously country. But we wanted to have music that was fun and felt good.”
