CMT Awards CANCELLED + Chris Stapleton Won't Sing National Anthem EVER Again

Chris Stapleton talks about why he will NEVER perform the National Anthem,  CMT Awards are cancelled for 2025, Megan Moroney new song.

Episode Transcript

Speaker 1 (00:00):
News from Nashville's music role It's Anne Hudson.

Speaker 2 (00:04):
Chris Stapleton opened up about how he oftentimes gets offered
to seeing the national anthem, but that he likes to
turn it down. He said he was waiting for the
super Bowl to call.

Speaker 1 (00:13):
I would have people ask me to sing this National
Life for various things, and not jokingly, always said no,
I'll just do it when it's time to do at
the super Bowl, you know, And I do say now
that I've officially retired from it as well.

Speaker 2 (00:24):
Well as you know, two years ago he did perform
what a lot of people consider with the greatest performances
of the Star Spangled Banner at the Super Bowl, and
so now he says he's done, he doesn't ever need
to do it again. Well, it looks like there will
not be a twenty twenty five CMT Awards show, as
it has been canceled by its parent company, Paramount Global.
They are merging with Guidance Media and the deal's not

(00:45):
going to be complete for another couple of months, so
they said that the show is on pause and they
will reevaluate for next year. Looks like Mega Maroney is
working on some new music. She posted a clip to
TikTok of her dancing seaside to a song that fans
will be unfamiliar with. She captured the video I just
wrote this. The song seems to be titled Heartbreaker. Will

(01:11):
keep you posted when she actually releases it. I'm in
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