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CBS will again ring in the new year with New Year’s Eve Live: Nashville’s Big Bash. The five-hour celebration returns to the network, airing live Sunday, Dec. 31 from downtown Nashville at 7:30-10 PM ET/PT/10:30 PM-1:05 AM ET/PT on CBS and streaming on Paramount+ as part of a multi-year deal.

The Rolling Stones are receiving a “love letter” from famous fans for their 60th anniversary.

Chris Willman Senior Music Writer and Chief Music Critic Whenever country-rock pioneers of the late ‘60s and very early ‘70s come up — whether it’s the Byrds, Burritos, Poco, Michael Nesmith, et al. — the Rolling Stones tend to be left out of the conversation. Maybe that’s fine: It’s not as if there aren’t other reasons to bring them their (dead) flowers. Still, they were experimenting with hybrid genre elements as early as 1968’s “Beggars Banquet” LP. Those latent elements mostly stayed kind of latent: Even though Keith Richards — admirer of Merle Haggard, close pal of Gram Parsons — took it very seriously, Mick Jagger admitted, “I don’t know if I’m able to do it without being tongue-in-cheek.” But if the group could only move so close to country in the end, country was sure able to move closer to them over the years. Think of how many cues the loud and rowdy Southern rock movement took from the Stones before it started crossbreeding with country later in the century.

Brooks & Dunn, Kelsea Ballerini, Little Big Town and Zac Brown Band will be among the country music stars helping to ring in 2023 on CBS with the return of New Year’s Eve Live: Nashville’s Big Bash.

Luke Bryan and Peyton Manning have been tapped to host the 56th Annual CMA Awards.

Billboard Music Awards, NBC and MRC announced Friday. The BBMAs will be held at the MGM Grand Garden Arena in Las Vegas on May 15 and will be broadcast at 8 p.m. ET/5 p.m.

Sean ‘Diddy’ Combs will make his hosting debut at the 2022 Billboard Music Awards, set for May 15 on NBC.

Mary J. Blige will receive the Icon Award at the 2022 Billboard Music Awards on Sunday, May 15. As a part of the recognition, the recent Super Bowl halftime show performer and ten-time BBMA winner and will perform during the broadcast, which will air live from the MGM Grand Garden Arena in Las Vegas at 8 p.m. ET/5 p.m. PT on NBC and will stream live on Peacock.

The Billboard Music Awards are rejoining the fun in Vegas.

Chris Willman Music WriterIt’ll be a New Year’s Countrified Eve on CBS this Dec. 31, as the network has just announced plans to fill the evening with no less than five hours of live country music performances from Nashville, now being plotted by a new production company put together by “CMA Awards” executive producer Robert Deaton and country artist manager Mary Hilliard Harrington.Titled “New Year’s Eve: Nashville’s Big Bash,” the show will air from 8-11 p.m.

Bruce Haring pmc-editorial-managerWalter C. Miller, an award-winning television director and producer who served as an executive producer, producer and consulting producer for the CMA Awards for more than 40 years, died Friday night in Nashville.

2020 Country Music Association Awards are set to be held at the Music City Center in Nashville on Wednesday, November 11.Unlike many other awards shows this year, the CMAs will not be held virtually — and will have a live audience amid the COVID-19 pandemic.“We couldn’t be more excited to bring all of these incredible performances to life next Wednesday night and give our artists the chance to come together, in a big way, on television for the first time in months,” executive producer Robert Deaton said in a statement.“As safety is our top priority, we have worked tirelessly over the past several months to fully transform Music City Center into a breathtaking setup that resembles the very first ‘CMA Awards Banquet and Show’ from 1967, and

The Country Music Association is revealing additional performers for the 2020 CMA Awards!