54th Annual Country Music Association Awards

The 54th Annual Country Music Association Awards will be held in November 2020.[1]

54th Annual Country Music Association Awards
DateNovember 2020
LocationTBA
Hosted byTBA
Television/radio coverage
NetworkABC

Garth Brooks

On July 30, 2020, Garth Brooks announced that he wants his name to be permanently out of contention for Entertainer of the Year.[2] After he won the 2019 Entertainer of the Year award, it caused a social media firestorm; many fans and artists believed Carrie Underwood or Eric Church deserved to win the award over Brooks. Brooks stated that after the last win, that it was "not that fun, to tell you the truth." As he absorbed the backlash after the November awards show, Brooks said, he couldn't shake the sentiment expressed in one of the tweets he read: "It said, 'Hey man, this guy, why doesn't he step down and just [leave] the entertainer for the next generation?'" He said he realized that taking his name out of the running was his only way forward. The timing of his announcement came just two days before the second round of voting begins for the annual awards, "I'm very grateful for the time that I've got to go [win]," he said, but now, "somebody else needs to hold that."

According to a statement released July 30, 2020 by the Country Music Association, "The long-standing CMA Awards rules do not allow individuals to remove themselves from the balloting process at any point."

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References
  1. "CMA Announces 2020 CMA Awards Ballot Schedule | CMA Awards". 2019 CMA Awards | Wednesday, November 13 on ABC. 2020-05-26. Retrieved 2020-07-31.
  2. "Garth Brooks Pulls His Name from Consideration for CMA Entertainer of the Year". PEOPLE.com. Retrieved 2020-07-31.
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