This isn't the first time real life has intruded on this special. In 2017, it dealt with Hurricane Harvey and the Route 91 Harvest music festival.
The annual "CMT Artists of the Year" special, now in its 11th year, will turn its focus outward this year to honor heroes who have done so much to help during the COVID-19 pandemic.
Brothers Osborne, Florida Georgia Line, Kane Brown, Kelsea Ballerini, Lady Antebellum, Little Big Town, Miranda Lambert, Thomas Rhett and more artists to be announced will appear on "CMT Celebrates Our Heroes: An Artists of the Year Special," which is set for June 3.
The artists will contribute tributes, callouts and performances. All artists will be filmed from their own homes. "The ‘CMT Artists of the Year’
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