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Lauren Daigle, Anne Wilson, Brandon Lake, Elevation Worship and Matthew West are among the artists set to perform at the 11th annual K-LOVE Fan Awards, which will be held at the iconic OPRY House in Nashville on May 26. The show, which bills itself as a celebration of faith, music and community, will air five nights later, on May 31 at 8 p.m. ET and 10 p.m. ET exclusively on TBN.
Lake and Sadie Robertson Huff will co-host this year’s show. The annual show is a John Landers LLC production.
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Nominees for the 2024 K-LOVE Fan Awards were announced last week. Lake leads with four nominations, followed by Wilson, Elevation Worship, West, Phil Wickham and TobyMac, with three nods each. Fans can visit klovefanawards.com to vote for their favorite artists through May 24 at 6 p.m. CT.
The K-LOVE Fan Awards offers additional weekend events such as the annual Friday night kick-off concert, Saturday morning’s Worship in the Round, the Emerging Artist Showcase, Songwriter’s Showcase and Sunday morning Worship Service. Details can be found at klovefanawards.com.
K-LOVE is listener-supported and delivers Christian music through its almost 600 signals across 50 states, the K-LOVE App, smart devices, klove.com, and K-LOVE On-Demand.
Matthew Slater is this year’s recipient of the Sports Impact Award. Slater, who was a special teams player for the New England Patriots, wrapped his 16-year NFL career earlier this year. The award will be presented by fellow Patriot Benjamin Watson.
Here are the performers and presenters set to appear at the 2024 K-Love Fan Awards.
Performers
Anne Wilson
Brandon Lake
CAIN
Crowder
Elevation Worship
Housefires
Jeremy Camp
Josh Baldwin
Katy Nichole
Lauren Daigle
Matthew West
Rachael Lampa
Tauren Wells
Terrian
Presenters
Benjamin & Kirsten Watson
Dallas Jenkins (The Chosen)
Elizabeth Tabish (The Chosen)
Jonathan Roumie (The Chosen)
Willie Robertson
Annie F. Downs
Granger Smith
Lisa Harper
Bart Millard (Mercy Me)
Brandon Heath
Colton Dixon
Danny Gokey
David Leonard
Ellie Holcomb
Jon Reddick
Josiah Queen
Matt Maher
Matthew West
Rebecca St. James
Riley Clemmons
Seph Schlueter
Taylor & Madison Cain
Tasha Layton
When the Recording Academy put the Grammy Hall of Fame on hiatus for one year, they said they were rethinking the entire process. They weren’t kidding. The first fruits of the retooling will be seen on Tuesday (May 21) when the inaugural Grammy Hall of Fame Induction Gala is held at the Novo Theater at L.A. Live in Los Angeles.
Michael Sticka, president/CEO of the Grammy Museum, says his hope for the induction event is to “build it to ultimately be the Museum’s version of MusiCares’ Person of the Year, to raise money for our programming.”
There are also plans to “build a permanent interactive exhibit to celebrate the Hall of Fame and educate our visitors. That will open early next year.”
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The first five inductions into the Grammy Hall of Fame were announced on the Grammy telecast in March 1974, and the Grammy Museum opened in December 2008, but this is the first time the Museum has partnered with the Recording Academy in a major way to celebrate the Hall of Fame.
“The Hall of Fame and the Museum pretty much go hand-in-hand,” Sticka says. “When we first started talking about what this thing really could be, we talked about how the Hall of Fame should live in the Museum. It makes perfect sense.”
These changes are the result of Sticka’s meeting with Recording Academy CEO Harvey Mason Jr. and Ruby Marchand, the Academy’s chief awards and industry officer, to brainstorm ways to build the Grammy Hall of Fame into a higher-profile entity. “The whole idea was ‘let’s get away from simply doing a press release,’” Sticka says of the upcoming gala.
They also made several major changes in the way the Grammy HOF operates. In recent decades, 25 or more inductees have been inducted each year. Starting this year, there will be just 10. “We wanted to whittle it down to a manageable number. If we had 25-30 recordings, it’s really hard to properly recognize each of them during an event.”
This year’s 10 new inductees bring the total number of recordings in the Grammy Hall of Fame to 1,162.
There will be live performances to honor six of this year’s honorees at Tuesday’s event, and interstitial video presentations for the other four. R&B singer William Bell will perform his own inducted recording, “You Don’t Miss Your Water.” Andra Day will perform a song from Lauryn Hill’s The Miseducation of Lauryn Hill, The War and Treaty will sing Charley Pride’s “Kiss an Angel Good Morning,” Elle King will perform Wanda Jackson’s “Let’s Have a Party” and Hanson will take on the Doobie Brothers’ “What a Fool Believes.”
“We really focused on the tribute performance [format], but William wanted to do [his own song] and we weren’t going to say no to that opportunity,” Sticka says.
This year’s Induction Gala will be produced by Ken Ehrlich, who has amassed nine Primetime Emmy nominations across four decades, along with Chantel Sausedo and Ron Basile. Greg Phillinganes will serve as musical director.
This year’s gala will be filmed but not televised. The plan is to cut together this first induction gala and send it to the Academy’s partners, CBS, which has aired the Grammy telecast every year since 1973, and PBS, which aired the Academy’s Special Merit Awards under the title Grammy Salute to Music Legends for about five years under its Great Performances banner.
“It’s tough to pull off a first-time event,” Sticka says. “There’s no proof-of-concept. [We’re] filming it so we can show what it’s going to look like and show what’s possible and hopefully somebody picks it up in the future to televise.”
Clips from the show will be housed on COLLECTION:live, the Grammy Museum’s streaming site.
A second change in the Grammy Hall of Fame process is that the Academy no longer sets aside a certain number of spots for pre-1950 recordings. The one pre-1950 recording being inducted this year, Kid Ory’s Creole Orchestra’s “Ory’s Creole Trombone” (1922) impressively made the cut without a spot being set aside for very old recordings. Now, the only requirement is that all recordings must be at least 25 years old.
The choices were made by a special member committee of about 20 people who had several Zoom meetings. Sticka says he sat in with the committee but didn’t vote. “There was a lot of conversation around a lot of the recordings,” he reports.
A third change is that the Grammy Hall of Fame will honor a record company each year. Atlantic Records, which was celebrating its 75th anniversary when these discussions got underway, is the first label to be honored. (The label was founded in October 1947 and released its first recordings in January 1948.) Even though the 75th anniversary has passed, it will be honored. 76th anniversary just doesn’t have same ring.
Atlantic doesn’t have any recordings being inducted this year, but it has 38 past Hall of Fame inductions.
As part of the salute to Atlantic, two current Atlantic artists are performing Grammy Hall of Fame classics by legendary Atlantic artists. Shinedown is performing Led Zeppelin’s “Stairway to Heaven.” Ravyn Lenae is singing Roberta Flack’s “Killing Me Softly With His Song.” Atlantic had a great deal of input into their segment. “They know themselves best, so we left it up to them,” Sticka says. “We had a lot of conversations with them.”
Starting this year, all artist(s), producer(s), songwriter(s) and engineer(s) who work on a Grammy Hall of Fame inductee will receive a certificate, provided they worked on 51% or more of the recording and had primary participation in those capacities. No statuettes, though. You have to win a Grammy in competition to get one of those.
From the red carpet fashion to the emotional acceptance speeches, this year’s ACM Awards were full of memorable moments. But the highlight of the show was arguably the star-studded lineup of performances, from Dua Lipa‘s surprise cameo with Chris Stapleton to host Reba McEntire‘s blazing closing number. Lainey Wilson opened the show — which was […]
As a dad of three, Shay Mooney has had well over 10,000 hours of practice at fatherhood. And in an interview with Billboard on the Winner’s Walk carpet at the 2024 ACM Awards Thursday (May 16), the Dan + Shay band member passed on a little bit of sage advice to one of the duo’s past collaborators: Justin Bieber, who recently announced that he and Hailey Bieber are expecting their first child.
“You gotta learn as you go, you obviously pick things up as you go,” said Mooney, who shares sons Asher, Ames and Abram with wife Hannah Billingsley. “Justin, if you’re watching this, you’re gonna do just fine. You’re a good man.”
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“It’s gonna be awesome, I’m excited for them,” the singer added of his and bandmate Dan Smyers’ “10,000 Hours” duet partner. “It’s a new journey, and they have a lot of great people around them. I’m proud of him.”
The awards show — where Dan + Shay won the prize for duo of the year — comes just over a week after the Biebers revealed that they’re expanding their family. Hailey debuted her baby bump with the “Peaches” singer in photos taken at what appeared to be a vow renewal ceremony, posted by the Rhode founder on Instagram May 9.
Since then, the model has shared more photos of her bump and revealed her biggest pregnancy craving so far: pickles topped with egg salad and hot sauce. “No, you’re not allowed to judge!!” she wrote on Instagram Stories earlier this week, sharing a photo of the concoction.
Mooney and Smyers are currently closing out their first season on The Voice. They pair make up the first-ever coaching duo on the show, where they serve on the panel alongside Reba McEntire, John Legend and Chance the Rapper.
“I’ve enjoyed genuinely getting to work with the artists, really digging in,” Smyers told Billboard of their time on the series. “There’s so much thought that goes into the songs. Trying to give those artists their best shot, ’cause that’s an amazing moment for them.”
Chris Stapleton took home four awards at the 2024 ACM Awards Thursday night (May 16), but he may as well have won a fifth: best-kept secret, which he unofficially earned for his surprise duet with Dua Lipa during the ceremony.
Viewers were shocked to see the pop star take the stage with the country crooner at the Ford Center in Frisco, Texas, with the pair teaming up for a reimagined version of his “Think I’m in Love With You” midway through the show. (Sources onsite told Billboard that the pair is planning to release a collaboration together in the future, but neither musician has publicly confirmed the news.)
After the performance, Stapleton revealed on the Winner’s Walk carpet that he was almost equally surprised to see the duet materialize, telling Billboard‘s Melinda Newman that it came together in as little as two days.
“[Lipa] contacted the ACMs, and the ACMs contacted us,” he said, noting the “Houdini” singer’s dedication to making the partnership happen. “She’s very busy promoting her own record [Radical Optimism] right now. We kind of created this thing together in the last two days.”
Lipa also opened up to Billboard about the performance after the show, which was produced by Dick Clark Productions. “Lots of zip-up hoodies and running in and out of the arena [were involved],” she told reporter Lyndsey Havens of how she kept her appearance under wraps. “We were all so in on making sure that this stays a surprise to make the moment even more special. I don’t know how we did it, I’m glad we did it because it’s really special when it happened tonight on stage.”
In addition to performing, Stapleton also won male artist of the year, artist-songwriter of the year and album of the year for his 2023 record Higher at the ACMs. When Billboard asked him and his wife/collaborator Morgane which pop artist the country star would like to work with next, he replied, “I’d always say someone like Paul McCartney.”
He then added, “Harry Styles. [Morgane has] mentioned [him] a few times.”
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The 59th annual Academy of Country Music Awards, held Thursday night (May 16) and streamed live on Amazon’s Prime Video, handed out awards to many artists whose music has had an undeniable impact over the past year, but they also deftly crammed more than a dozen performances into the space of two hours — including […]
Many of the awards at the 2024 Academy of Country Music Awards, which were presented on Thursday (May 16) at Ford Center at The Star in Frisco, Texas, went as expected. Lainey Wilson’s second consecutive win as female artist of the year was a foregone conclusion. Old Dominion’s seventh consecutive win as group of the […]
Lainey Wilson and Chris Stapleton were the top winners at the 2024 Academy of Country Music Awards, which were presented on Thursday (May 16) at Ford Center at The Star in Frisco, Texas.
Stapleton won four awards, more than anyone else, but Wilson won the top prize, entertainer of the year. Luke Combs and Jordan Davis each won two awards. (Under ACM rules, artists can win two awards in a few categories – one as an artist and one as producer or songwriter.)
Morgan Wallen was shut out, despite receiving six nods.
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Wilson won entertainer of the year two years after winning the ACM Award for new female artist of the year. That’s the fastest climb from a new artist award to entertainer of the year at the ACMs since The Chicks, then called Dixie Chicks, also made the advance in just two years. That female trio was named new group or duo in 1999 and won entertainer of the year in 2001.
Wilson thus achieves what the ACM calls the Triple Crown. She won new female artist of the year two years ago and female artist of the year last year. Wilson repeated in the latter category this year. She’s the first artist to win back-to-back awards in this category since Maren Morris in 2020-21.
Wilson also won music event of the year for the second year in a row. She won this year as a featured artist on Jelly Roll’s “Save Me.” She won last year as a featured artist on Hardy’s “Wait in the Truck.”
Stapleton won album of the year for the fourth time, a total equaled or exceeded only by Miranda Lambert, who has won five times in the category. Lambert won with five consecutive studio albums. Stapleton has won with four of his five solo studio albums. He missed only when From a Room, Vol. 2 lost to Kacey Musgraves’ Golden Hour. (He won two awards in this category, one as artist and one as co-producer.)
Stapleton won male artist of the year for the fourth time, just one shy of the all-time record of five wins shared by Merle Haggard, Brad Paisley and George Strait. Stapleton also won artist-songwriter of the year in the second year it was presented. Hardy was the inaugural winner last year. These awards up Stapleton’s ACM Awards trophy count to 20.
Combs’ “Fast Car” won single of the year. The crossover smash reached No. 2 on the Billboard Hot 100. It’s the fourth winner in that category to reach No. 1 on No. 2 on Billboard’s flagship singles chart, following Glen Campbell’s “Rhinestone Cowboy” (the 1976 winner; No. 1); Kenny Rogers and Dolly Parton’s “Islands in the Stream” (the 1984 winner; No. 1) and Lady A’s “Need You Now” (the 2010 winner, No. 2). Combs won two awards for the single, as artist and co-producer.
But Tracy Chapman did not win song of the year for writing “Fast Car,” as was expected. The Jordan Davis hit “Next Thing You Know” won instead in that category. Davis co-wrote the song with Chase McGill, Greylan James and Josh Osborne. It’s the second win in this category for Osborne, who co-wrote the Old Dominion hit “One Man Band,” which won four years ago. (Davis won two awards in this category – one as artist and one as a cowriter.)
Old Dominion won group of the year for the seventh year in a row. That equals Rascal Flatts’ run of seven consecutive wins from 2003-09.
Dan + Shay won duo of the year for the fourth time, equaling Brothers Osborne’s four-year reign for the recent ACM record. The all-time record is held by Brooks & Dunn and The Judds, with 16 wins.
Megan Moroney won new female artist of the year, while Nate Smith won new male artist of the year. Both were also nominated in those categories last year, but lost to Hailey Whitters and Zach Bryan, respectively. ACM rules give artists two attempts to take home the award.
Tigirlily Gold won in the revived category of new duo or group of the year. The award was last presented five years ago to LANCO. Tigirlily Gold, which consists of sisters Kendra and Krista Slaubaugh, is the second sister duo to win in this category. The first was The Kinleys, which consisted of Heather and Jennifer Kinley. They won in 1998. (The Kinleys were identical twins. The sisters of Tigirlily Gold are about 2-1/2 years apart in age.)
Jessie Jo Dillon won songwriter of the year. She’s the third woman to win in that category, following Hillary Lindsey (a three-time winner) and Lori McKenna.” Dillon’s win was no surprise. She was nominated for songwriter of the year, non-classical at the Grammy Awards earlier this year.
Parker McCollum’s “Burn It Down” won visual media of the year. Two years ago, McCollum won ACM new male artist of the year.
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Reba McEntire brought the house down — and almost burnt it down, too — with the final performance of the night at the 2024 ACM Awards Thursday night (May 16), singing a blazing rendition of her new single “I Can’t.” Joined by a stunning choir of gospel singers, the 69-year-old singer — who also served […]
Nate Smith brought his latest hit, “Bulletproof,” the 2024 ACM Awards stage on Thursday night (May 16), calling on Avril Lavigne to join him on the live debut of their remix. “Been takin’ these shots, shots, shots/ 80, 90, everything they’ve got/ But the whiskey don’t kill like it’s supposed to do/ Baby, your memory […]