Taylor Swift returns to the CMA Awards stage for her first performance at the ceremony in 13 years, the CMAs and ABC announced Friday, November 13. The 60th Annual CMA Awards will air live from Nashville on Wednesday, November 18 on ABC and Disney+ (and available the following day on Hulu).
Swift, who has twice won the CMA Entertainer of the Year award, is nominated this year for a CMA award for single of the year for “I Knew It, I Knew You,” marking her 26th career CMA nomination. The pop superstar wrote and recorded “I Knew It, I Knew You” – which topped the Billboard Hot 100 for two weeks – for the animated film. Toy Story 5released earlier this year. Swift also co-produced the track with Jack Antonoff.
Swift has won nine awards in total at the CMA Awards to date. The singer-songwriter, who was just inducted into the Nashville Songwriters Hall of Fame at a ceremony in Music City a few weeks ago, has never won a CMA in the single of the year category, although she was previously nominated in that category in 2013, for her work on “Highway Don’t Care,” recorded with Tim McGraw and Keith Urban.
The 14-time Grammy Award winner first attended the CMAs in 2006 and earned her first win the following year with the Horizon Award. In 2009, she became the youngest CMA Entertainer of the Year in history.
The 2013 CMA Awards saw Swift take home the top prize, which had previously gone to artists including Tim McGraw, George Strait, Faith Hill, Keith Urban, Brad Paisley and Rascal Flatts. That year, she also performed her hit “Red” with Vince Gill and Alison Krauss, marking her most recent performance on the CMA Awards stage.
The 60th Annual CMA Awards is a Country Music Association production, with Robert Deaton serving as executive producer, Alan Carter serving as director and Jon Macks serving as head writer.
Ella Langley leads this year’s CMA Awards with nine nominations, followed by Miranda Lambert with five. Lainey Wilson will host the CMAs for a third consecutive year.
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