Lady A, Kelsea Ballerini, Kane Brown and More to Perform During Virtual iHeartCountry Festival

2020 CMT Music Awards — and that means the show will need a super-sized slate of hosts!Kane Brown and Sarah Hyland have been announced as two of four celebrity hosts for this year's awards show, which is set to honor the best videos and performances of the year on Oct. 21.«From our first conversations about this year’s show, we knew we wanted multiple hosts who reflected both our artists and our audience,» said CMT show producers in a statement.

Jem Aswad Senior Music EditorJason Isbell, Kiiara, Jade Bird and many other artists will perform at Sound Mind Live, a virtual music festival in celebration of World Mental Health Day taking place on Thursday beginning at 8 p.m. ET/ 5 p.m.

Blake Shelton will have some major country star power on his side this season on ET exclusively announced on Monday that Kane Brown will be the Battle Round mentor for Team Blake — fulfilling a longtime dream for the «Worldwide Beautiful» singer.«My dream --  and nobody knows this -- was to always try out for and be on Blake Shelton's team,» Brown told ET of the full-circle moment.

Ashley McBryde, Dan + Shay, Kane Brown, Little Big Town, Luke Bryan and Maren Morris will all perform at this year’s show -- and they're all also nominated with some of the year's best music videos and performances.McBryde and Dan + Shay are two of the top nominees at this year's Music Awards — country music’s only entirely fan-voted awards show -- tied with Kelsea Ballerini, Luke Combs, Sam Hunt and Thomas Rhett. All scored three nods apiece and are competing in the coveted «Video of the Year»

Andrew Hampp In the years since his 2018 multi-format smash “Heaven,” breakout country star Kane Brown has filled his dance card with a long line of duet partners across multiple genres, including Swae Lee & Khalid (current single “Be Like That”), John Legend (“Last Time I Say Sorry”), Lauren Alaina (2017’s “What Ifs,” his first country chart-topper) and Thomas Rhett & Ava Max (“SCOOB!” soundtrack single “On Me”).And he considers his year-plus partnership with Dr Pepper to be among those duets,

Kane Brown is here with a moving video for his thought-provoking hit “Worldwide Beautiful”.

Yee-Haw! Canada’s biggest night in country music is almost here and ET Canada has your ticket to the show.

Sarah Paulson‘s thriller Run will premiere as the opening night film of the virtual Nightstream film festival.The event was forged thanks to the partnership of the Boston Underground, Brooklyn Horror, North Bend, Overlook, and Popcorn Frights festivals – all of which had to cancel their annual festivals due to the coronavirus pandemic.Hear the advice Steven Spielberg gave to SarahRun, which stars Sarah and Kiera Allen and is directed by Aneesh Chaganty, will premiere on the opening night on

NASHVILLE, Tenn. -- Ashley McBryde, Dan + Shay, Kelsea Ballerini, Luke Combs, Sam Hunt and Thomas Rhett top the 2020 CMT Music Awards nominations with three each.In nominations announced Wednesday for the pandemic-delayed show, 14 videos are vying for the top prize of video of the year.

CMT on Wednesday unveiled the nominations for the 2020 CMT Music Awards, with Ashley McBryde, Dan + Shay, Kelsea Ballerini, Luke Combs, Sam Hunt and Thomas Rhett leading the nominees with three each. Other artists with multiple nominations include Blanco Brown, Carrie Underwood, Gabby Barrett, Kane Brown, Little Big Town, Miranda Lambert, Old Dominion and The Chicks, who landed their first CMT nomination since 2007.

The nominations for the 2020 CMT Music Awards are in.

South by Southwest has revealed that they’ll be hosting an online 2021 event, following the cancellation of their 2020 event due to coronavirus restrictions.The virtual festival will be taking place from March 16 – March 20 next year, and is set to offer a variety of keynote speeches, conferences, film screenings and more.SXSW’s education conference, SXSW EDU, will take place the week before, commencing on March 9 and going until March 11.

Six months after releasing her third studio album, Kelsea Ballerini is back with a whole new take on her latest collections of songs with her record Ballerini.

Chris Willman Music WriterYet another musical event that was supposed to take place in the spring has finally found a virtual home in the fall, as the iHeartCountry Festival, once set to be recorded in front of a live audience in Austin, will now be taped in Nashville in the coming weeks, to go out on iHeart stations and as a web stream on Oct.

Beyonce, 39, is known for having a very private personal life so its always a blessing when we get to see her outside of her professional world! She gifted fans with something hilarious during a virtual celebration for the WACO Theater Center on September 19. The “Single Ladies” singer actually flexed her comedic chops as opposed to her vocal ones during it as she cracked a corny joke about Snoop Dogg next to her daughter Blue Ivy, 8.