Chris Stapleton Wins Big At CMA Awards

His winning album of the year, “Traveller” is his first solo album and was released earlier this year. “I don’t have a lot of that presence and I am sure there are a lot of people going, ‘Who in the hell is this guy?’ But thankfully, I guess I have a lot of fans in the industry who are like, ‘Watch this, we’re going to vote for him'”.

“Watching Chris Stapleton have this night is so uplifting”, Bryan said onstage after he won the top award for a second time.

Safe to say Stapleton has already had an illustrious career and is clearly well-liked by big players in the country community, but it looks like his superstar ship may have just come in.

As expected, Florida Georgia Line took home the vocal duo award of the year and Little Big Town won the vocal group of the year award for the fourth time. He wrote – and did backup vocals for – Adele’s “If It Hadn’t Been for Love”, Luke Bryan’s “Drink a Beer,” Kenny Chesney’s “Never Wanted Nothing More”, Blake Shelton’s “100 Miles”, and “Too Fast” for Jason Aldean.

If you’ve been waiting to pick up those Chris Stapleton Wonder Ballroom tickets, there are still a few left-for $119.95.

It was the kind of performance that immediately made every other singer that performed after them feel insecure.

Kacey Musgraves and “Dime Store Cowgirl”.

Kelley wasn’t the only A-lister impressed by the performance, either.

For one music’s fastest-rising stars, Hunt has appeared pretty nervous during his past TV performances. Most sang along and others gazed as if Timberlake was an icon making a comeback. “Just tell me when to show up”.

Luke Bryan played “Garth” Vader.

Blake Shelton is downright blissful! “CMA Awards are a very straight country radio-driven thing”. Later, both Shelton and Lambert had their own performances, and Lambert won for female vocalist of the year.

American country and bluegrass musician signed to Universal Music Group Nashville, Christopher Stapleton’s net worth is estimated to be $1 million.

While this pair is usually pretty flawless hosting the show, their eighth year of opening monologue/song parodies fell a bit flat. (Shelton and Miranda Lambert were divorced over the summer.) The move took the focus off his music again and aimed the spotlight squarely on his personal life during the event dubbed “country music’s biggest night”. That was as controversial as they got, save for a comment about Bruce Jenner being a “babe” now.