Alanis Morrissette, Gwen Stefani, Shania Twain added to 2023 CMT Music Awards

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15 Grammy Awards and 200 million worldwide album sales -- via pop icons Alanis Morrissette, Gwen Stefani and Shania Twain -- have been added to the lineup at the 2023 CMT Music Awards.

The event airs live from Austin, Texas’ Moody Center on Sunday, April 2nd from 8-11 p.m., ET/PT on CBS and is available to stream live and on-demand via Paramount+.

Alongside being the awards ceremony's most-nominated artist, Lainey Wilson will join Morissette and fellow CMT Next Women of Country program alumni Ingrid Andress, Madeline Edwards and Morgan Wade -- plus Austin native Jackie Venson on guitar -- to perform Morrissette's 1995-released “You Oughta Know.”

Lainey Wilson performs at Brooklyn Bowl in Nashville , Tenn., Thursday, March 16, 2023.
Lainey Wilson performs at Brooklyn Bowl in Nashville , Tenn., Thursday, March 16, 2023.

Twain will be honored -- as Linda Martell and Jennifer Nettles have in past years -- with CMT's "Equal Play Award,” which, as a press release notes, recognizes an artist who is a visible and vocal advocate for elevating diverse and underrepresented voices in country music.

Also, after just finishing supporting her husband, Blake Shelton, on his Back to the Honky Tonk Tour, recent Grammy winner Carly Pearce will join Gwen Stefani for a duet performance.

These artists will join Shelton, Carrie Underwood, Cody Johnson, Jelly Roll, Kane Brown + Katelyn Brown, Keith Urban, Kelsea Ballerini, The Black Crowes + Darius Rucker, Tyler Hubbard and Wynonna and Ashley McBryde among artists now named as appearing onstage at the CMT Music Awards.

Gwen Stefani will appear alongside Carly Pearce at the 2023 CMT Music Awards
Gwen Stefani will appear alongside Carly Pearce at the 2023 CMT Music Awards

As well, Avery Anna, Chapel Hart, Jackson Dean, Lily Rose, Megan Moroney and Nate Smith will perform from the Ram Trucks Side Stage.

The top six finalists for the“Video of Year” award at the 2023 CMT Music Awards -- with fan voting now open at vote.cmt.com -- are as follows:

  • Blake Shelton - “No Body”

  • Carrie Underwood - “Hate My Heart”

  • Cody Johnson - “Human”

  • HARDY feat. Lainey Wilson - “wait in the truck”

  • Kane Brown & Katelyn Brown - “Thank God”

  • Morgan Wallen - “You Proof”

CMT will additionally air CMT Music Awards Extended Cut with 30 minutes of new performances and bonus content on Thurs., Apr. 6 (8:00-11:30 p.m., ET/PT), in addition to all new programming as part of CMT Music Awards Week. Additional details are to be announced at a later date.

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