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All the 2024 CMT Music Awards Performances, Ranked


Billboard counts down the top performances at the CMT Music Awards from worst to best.

Over the past several weeks, Dasha earned billions of views on TikTok for her breakthrough hit “Austin,” a sharp-witted skewering of a wayward ex, set to an irresistibly danceable groove that has taken social media and streaming by storm. Clad in a vintage George Jones T-shirt and black jeans, Urban offered up a bubbly, energetic track and positive perspective that proved a perfect fit for the CMTs, and he heightened the performance by welcoming two female entertainers — guitarists/vocalists Maggie Baugh and Anna Vaus — to join him to close out the song. Moroney’s signature voice, slightly husky, cracks in all the right places, drawing out the song’s dramatic, emotional edges, as she sings of wrestling with a post-breakup heart that’s almost healed, when in comes that inevitable call from an ex-lover.

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