Morgan Wallen Fans Are NOT Happy That He Was Completely Snubbed At This Year’s CMA Awards: “A Total Joke”
Another year empty handed after the CMA Awards for Morgan Wallen.
Tonight, host Lainey Wilson took home the coveted Entertainer of the Year award trophy, after being up against a stacked group in Cody Johnson, Chris Stapleton, Luke Combs, and of course, Morgan Wallen.
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We knew going into it that Morgan was highly unlikely to attend, because he won Entertainer of the Year last year and didn’t show up, and he never even really addressed the award or even acknowledged it, other than posting a picture of the trophy in a slideshow on Instagram.
He recently drove his point him during a surprise appearance with Ella Langley at the Ryman Auditorium when he took another shot at the CMA Awards, which take place just steps from the Ryman at Bridgestone Arena:
“It takes a lot more than an awards show to get me out to Broadway these days, I’ll tell you that.”
So yeah, I don’t think anyone really expected him to be there in person, but I think some fans were a little surprised that he didn’t win one award, despite being nominated for the aforementioned Entertainer of the Year award, as well as Album of the Year for I’m the Problem and Male Vocalist of the Year.
But despite consistently topping both the country and all-genre charts, selling out stadiums all over the world and having unprecedented success with each album release worldwide, that hasn’t been enough to secure the biggest trophy at the CMA Awards, or even any of the other ones for the categories he was nominated in.
I love Lainey, I have nothing against her winning or any of the other nominees had they taken home the EOTY this year, because it was a stacked category and they were all very deserving, but there’s no question who is at the top right now in country music, and even music in general, and it’s Morgan Wallen. These shows do themselves no favors by making these kinds of calls and only validate the criticisms and issues so many fans already have with them.
Personally, I don’t think these awards prove anything one way or the other about how good or bad any artist or band is, so I really don’t care that much about who wins what either way, but of course, fans certainly had a lot to say about it online:
At this rate, I don’t know if Morgan will ever attend another CMA Awards show, and he seems to be more than okay with that.
