Kane Brown was the only multiple winner at the 2021 CMT Music Awards, which were held Wednesday (June 9) at Bridgestone Arena in Nashville. He took two awards: male video of the year for “Worship You” and collaborative video of the year for “Famous Friends,” a collab with Chris Young.

These are Brown’s second wins in both categories. He shared the collaborative video award three years ago with Lauren Alaina for “What Ifs” and won the male video award two years ago for “Lose It.”

Brown co-hosted the show for the second year in a row, this time with Kelsea Ballerini. Ballerini also went home a winner. She and Halsey won CMT performance of the year for “The Other Girl,” which they performed on last year’s CMT Music Awards.

Here are some of the records set by this year’s CMT Music Awards winners.

Carrie Underwoodwon video of the year for the ninth time for “Hallelujah,” on which she teamed with John Legend. Underwood has more wins in this category than any other artist. (Taylor Swift and Keith Urban are tied for second place with three each.) This is the first time a collab video has won for video of the year. Legend is the first Black artist, and in fact the first non-country artist, to win in this category. (Oddly, the Underwood/Legend video didn’t win for collaborative video of the year. It was nominated, but lost to the Young/Brown video.)

Gabby Barrett won her first female video of the year award for “The Good Ones,” a song from her first studio album, Goldmine. Barrett won breakthrough video of the year last year for “I Hope.” She’s the first artist to climb from breakthrough video of the year to female video of the year since Swift, who won the breakthrough award in 2007 for “Tim McGraw” and the female video award the following year for “Our Song.”

Little Big Town won duo/group of the year for “Wine, Beer, Whiskey,” following three wins for group video of the year (for “Girl Crush,” “Better Man” and “When Someone Stops Loving You”). Just two groups have won more awards in this category: Rascal Flatts (seven) and Lady A (five, back when they were known as Lady Antebellum). “Wine, Beer, Whiskey” is from LBT’s ninth studio album, Nightfall.

Dylan Scott’s “Nobody” took breakthrough video of the year. Scott is the first male artist to win in this category since Chris Stapleton took it five years ago for “Fire Away.” The award went in the last four years to a succession of female artists: Alaina, Carly Pearce, Ashley McBryde and Barrett. This breakthrough is a long time coming for Scott, who released his only full-length album to date nearly five years ago. The music video for “Nobody” includes Scott’s wife Blair Robinson and their two kids, Beckett Scott and Finley Gray.

As noted above, Ballerini and Halsey won CMT performance of the year for “The Other Girl.” The collab was the second single from Ballerini’s third studio album, Kelsea, which reached No. 2 on the Billboard 200. This category honors the best performance on a CMT program. Previous winners have been from CMT Crossroads and CMT Artists of the Year, among other CMT shows.

Linda Martell, the first Black female singer to play the Grand Ole Opry, was the second winner of the CMT Equal Play Award, following Jennifer Nettles last year. In 1969, Martell had two top 40 hits on Billboard’s Hot Country Singles chart (as it was called then) – a cover version of The Winstons’ “Color Him Father” (which was a top 10 hit on both the Hot 100 and Best Selling Rhythm & Blues Singles) and an early version of “Before the Next Teardrop Falls,” which went on to become a No. 1 hit on the Hot 100 and Hot Country Singles charts in 1975 for Freddy Fender.

The lyrics may be bleak, but Gladys Knight and Mickey Guyton delivered a rousing performance of “Friendship Train” at the 2021 CMT Music Awards on Wednesday (June 9).

The set came after Guyton and Breland wrapped up their collab, “Cross Country.” Guyton then declared excitedly, “The legendary Gladys Knight, ya’ll!” as the soul singer came out on stage clapping before taking the “Black Like Me” singer’s hand to kick off the song about social issues.

As they gave a lively performance of the song, which Gladys Knight and the Pips took to No. 17 on the Billboard Hot 100 in December 1969, the live audience got up on their feet to dance along. Toward the end of the song, Breland came back on stage to help wrap up the set, which earned a standing ovation from those in the audience.

This is the second time in a week that Knight has performed. She took the stage at the Kennedy Center Honors, which aired June 6, to perform in honor of Garth Brooks, taking on his 1992 song “We Shall Be Free.” Brooks was one of the honorees of the evening, alongside Dick Van Dyck, Joan Baez, Debbie Allen and Midori.

Guyton was nominated for two awards this year, breakthrough video for “Black Like Me” and female video of the year for “Heaven Down Here.”

Kane Brown and Kelsea Ballerini co-hosted the awards, which were broadcast live from the Bridgestone Arena in Nashville.

H.E.R. and Chris Stapleton combined for a showstopping performance at Wednesday’s (June 9) CMT Music Awards of the R&B star’s song “Hold On.”

In a genre-blending moment that was reminiscent of Stapleton’s breakthrough performance at the CMA Awards with Justin Timberlake back in 2015, the duo absolutely shredded on their respective guitars and blended their powerhouse vocals impeccably, with Chris’ rasp perfectly complementing H.E.R.’s smooth tone.

After absolutely crushing the song, the critically acclaimed pair bowed down to each other in a sweet “we’re not worthy” moment. CMT Awards hosts Kelsea Ballerini and Kane Brown even seemed flummoxed by how good the performance was, remaining speechless for a moment before introducing the next act.

H.E.R. debuted “Hold On” late last year, performing the song for the first time on Saturday Night Live in October.

Watch the full performance below:

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T.I. responds to multiple sexual abuse allegations against him and his wife Tiny in his music video for “What It’s Come To.”

The 40-year-old rapper (real name Clifford Joseph Harris Jr.) and his wife (Tameka Dianne Harris) have been at the center of serious sexual assault allegations from more than a dozen women. Now he’s taking aim in the visual, which depicts T.I. and Tiny at the center of a grand scheme to publicly take them down by their accusers, whom he labels “The Parasite” and accuses of lying.

“The object of the game is kill the king/ So till the blade meet my neck on the guillotine/ But I’ma be standin’ tall like a statue/ N—a f— that, ‘He say, she say’/ If the receipts, say that shit ain’t factual/ I was built for all this sh–, God sent me here with a mission/ That’s somethin’ can’t let no human or no demon interfere with,” he raps.

While Tiny makes a cameo, T.I. enlists characters to mock Sabrina Peterson, who accused him of putting a gun to her head, and attorney Tyrone A. Blackburn, whom the The New York Times reported is seeking a criminal investigation and approached law enforcement authorities in Georgia and California on behalf of 11 people claiming they were victimized by the couple or their entourage.

At the end of the music video, T.I. announces that his 12th and final studio album, Kill the King, will be “coming soon.”

Peterson responded to the video in a since-deleted Instagram Story, writing, “I have been in federal trouble before, no matter how the public feels about they can’t save you. Since your million dollar team won’t tell you I will. You aren’t taunting me you are taunting your investigators. You aren’t taunting me you are igniting more women that have stayed quiet that you victimized. Dummy.”

Stories about sexual assault allegations can be traumatizing for survivors of sexual assault. If you or anyone you know needs support, you can reach out to the Rape, Abuse & Incest National Network (RAINN). The organization provides free, confidential support to sexual assault victims. Call RAINN’s National Sexual Assault Hotline (800.656.HOPE) or visit the anti-sexual violence organization’s website for more information.

If you haven’t heard, Broadway is almost back — and The Tonight Show Starring Jimmy Fallon is ready to celebrate.

New York Gov. Andrew Cuomo announced last month that Broadway could return to business as usual in September, and many major shows — including Hamilton, Lion King and Wicked — already have tickets on sale for the fall. On Tuesday night’s (June 8) Tonight Show, Lin-Manuel Miranda and Jimmy Fallon will welcome back the Great White Way by re-creating  some of Broadway’s most iconic moments in a musical number.

And they won’t be alone: As you can see from the photo above, Billboard can exclusively reveal that Kristin Chenoweth (Wicked), Christopher Jackson (Hamilton), Phylicia Rashad (August: Osage County), Laura Benanti (Gypsy) and In the Heights film stars Jimmy Smits and Olga Merediz will also be part of the segment.

The Broadway celebration will include music from The Phantom of the Opera, Chicago, Dear Evan Hansen, West Side Story, The Lion King, The Book of Mormon, Wicked and many more classic shows — including, of course, Miranda’s blockbuster hit Hamilton.

Also along for the ride for the first time this week is a packed studio audience inside 30 Rock, after a year-plus of remote shows followed by audience-free tapings in the studio.

Another Miranda production, In the Heights, is hitting the big screen this weekend, starring Anthony Ramos as Usnavi de la Vega, the role originated by Miranda himself on Broadway in 2008.

The Tonight Show Starring Jimmy Fallon airs at 11:35 p.m. ET on NBC.

Watch “Broadway’s Back!” below.