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CMT Artists Of The Year

Sep 17, 2021 | 8:12 AM

Kelsea Ballerini, Gabby Barrett, Kane Brown, Luke Combs and Chris Stapleton are the 2021 CMT Artists of the Year. The five artists will be honored during a ceremony in Nashville in mid-October.

 

Ballerini, Barrett, Brown, Combs and Stapleton were selected as 2021 CMT Artists of the Year because they “collectively dominated the last 12 months in country music, leading across all CMT platforms, scoring chart-topping albums and singles, while simultaneously finding creative ways to connect with fans and meet the personal and professional challenges posed by the [COVID-19] pandemic,” per a press release. Ballerini and Brown even co-hosted the 2021 CMT Music Awards in early June.

All five artists have released new music in recent months: Barrett released her debut in June of 2020, while Stapleton put out his fourth studio album in November. Brown dropped a new EP that August, and Ballerini debuted two albums: Kelsea and its acoustic accompaniment, Ballerini. Combs, meanwhile, expanded his sophomore album from 2019 into What You See Ain’t Always What You Get, which includes his 11th-straight No. 1 single (as well as his current single, “Cold as You,” currently just outside the Top 10 at country radio).

Barrett is the 2021 ACM New Female Artist of the Year, Stapleton’s Starting Over was named the 2021 ACM Album of the Year, and Brown’s “Worldwide Beautiful” music video earned Music Video of the Year at the 2021 ACM Awards. Between the five of them, they have more than a dozen 2021 CMA Awards nominations.

 

 

 

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