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  Chris Stapleton wins big at the 2021 CMA Awards

  Chris Stapleton won big at the 55th annual Country Music Association (CMA) Awards on Wednesday, dominating the major categories. The award ceremony was presented by first-time host Luke Bryan at the Bridgestone Arena in Nashville, Tennessee. Country music's biggest night featured performances by Miranda Lambert, Thomas Rhett, Zac Brown Band, Gabby Barrett, and Stapleton, who went on to win a majority of the awards handed out. Ahead of the ceremony, Kelsea Ballerini and Kenny Chesney won two awar

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  List of winners at CMA Awards, led by Stapleton, Combs

  Chris Stapleton emerged from Wednesday's Country Music Association Awards with six trophies, but lost out the night's top honor to Luke Combs

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  Kelsea Ballerini embarrassed about Kenny Chesney texting mix-up

  Kelsea Ballerini was left red-faced after realising she was asking a real estate agent to sing with her via text.The singer thought she was inviting pal Kenny Chesney to sing on Half of My Hometown, and when he stopped responding she thought she'd overstepped the mark. "I was wondering why he'd stopped responding," Ballerini told Taste of Country. "I was like, 'Oh my God, maybe I misread the situation. Maybe he's like, 'We're not friends'," she admitted.However, Ballerini discovered the mishap o

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  Kelsea Ballerini, Maren Morris, and Thomas Rhett lead performers at 2021 ACM Awards

  Kelsea Ballerini, Maren Morris, Thomas Rhett, Luke Bryan are among the list of performers set to appear at the 2021 Academy of Country Music Awards (ACM) this month.The country music superstars will be among the 25 artists invited to take the stage at the 56th Annual ACM Awards set to take place in Nashville, Tennessee, on 18 April.The star-studded slate of performers includes Dierks Bentley, Lee Brice, Brothers Osborne, Kane Brown, and Kenny Chesney. Also joining them as performers are Eric Chu

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  Country singer pays tribute to helicopter pilot to the stars among four dead in Virgin Islands helicopter crash

  Ms Rodriguez, who was well-known on islands, owned helicopter company and piloted aircraft carrying Barack and Michelle Obama in 2017

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  Album reviews: Chris Stapleton, Benee, McFly and Sophie Ellis-Bextor

  Chris Stapleton releases a new country masterpiece while rising star Benee makes a promising pop debut. McFly are stuck in the past, while Sophie Ellis-Bexter is more successful in her nostalgia for disco

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  CMA Awards to feature Carrie Underwood, Chris Stapleton

  Carrie Underwood will be working triple-duty at the 2018 Country Music Association Awards as co-host, performer and nominee. The show may also pay tribute to the 12 people who were killed at a Southern California country music bar last week.

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  After tragedy, country music returns to Vegas with ACMs

  Country music is making a major return to Las Vegas with the 2018 ACM Awards, six months after a lone gunman killed 58 people at a country music festival in Sin City in the deadliest mass shooting in modern U.S. history. Sunday night's show at the MGM Grand Garden Arena will mark an emotional night, though the awards show is known as the genre's biggest party of the year. Jason Aldean, who was onstage when the shooting started at the Route 91 Harvest Festival last October, will perform Sunday.

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  Kenny Chesney's live album scores No.1 on Billboard 200 chart

  LOS ANGELES (Reuters) - Country star Kenny Chesney took the top spot on the Billboard 200 album chart on Monday with his new live album, while releases by pop singer Kelly Clarkson and rapper Chris Brown debuted in the top three.

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