As the 2024 celebrates the best in this year's , fans are in for an exciting surprise as chart-topping artists Bailey Zimmerman and Sam Hunt are set to release brand . During the highly anticipated award show, a number of star-studded artists are slated to take the stage including singers Bailey Zimmerman, , Keith Urban, Lainey Wilson and Sam Hunt. And during the show, Bailey and Sam have a special performance for viewers as they both announced they will be dropping two new songs during the ceremony. Both artists have been recognized with nominations at the award show with Sam previously up for a whopping nine nominations at the CMT's and bringing home the win for Breakthrough Video of the Year in 2023. As for Bailey, the talented rising star has been nominated for this year's Male Video of the Year and has announced he will be performing his new debut song Where It Ends. Bailey has made impressive strides in his
music career within the past year, making monumental strides in his own career and
BREAKING country music records. In 2023, Bailey was named one of
New York Times Best Albums of 2023 for his album release Religiously which dropped in May of last year. This marked the biggest streaming debut album of the year across all genres and became the biggest streaming country debut of all time. Bailey's release also landed Top 3 on the Top Country Albums chart and No. 7 on the all-genre Billboard 200. After Bailey takes the stage for the upcoming awards, he will continue on his completely sold-out Religiously: The Tour across the country in 2024. And while he will be performing to packed crowds, he is also going to be taking the stage to join Morgan Wallen as a guest star on his One Night At A Time World Tour. As for his fellow performer, Sam, he has just announced this week that he will be releasing an all-new release titled Locked Up EP. The short release will include only four songs - Locked Up, Country House, Last Hurrah, and his newly released single Outskirts. The 39-year-old
Singer recently debuted an all-new Johnny Cash-inspired music video for the song Locked Up. The new release was a loving tribute to his wife Hannah during which he thanks her for sticking by his side through the hardest of times including after he was arrested for a DUI in 2019. As the star gears up to share his newest release with fans, his new song has already been flooded with rave reviews and has listeners looking forward to what else he has in store. Under his newly released music video on , which has already reeled in 200k views, one fan commented: "WOW Sam Hunt another hit song!! I love love his voice!! When he comes on the radio you know who is singing, he doesn't sound like anyone else." Another added: "Sam never disappoints. This song give that bittersweet feeling that tore my soul apart." And a third wrote: "I LOVE it. Sam Hunt is the new star poised to be number one. He's getting better all the time. Another Georgia boy doing good. Sooo proud of you." The Country Music Television Awards will air live from the Moody Center in Austin,
Texas, on April 7 from 8-11 p.m. ET/PT on CBS and stream on Paramount+.