Country music singer and songwriter Kelsea Ballerini. On April 11, 2022, she will be hosting the CMT Music Awards for the second year in a row. What is Ballerini’s net worth, considering she has won awards and has released multiple successful albums?
Kelsea Ballerini is co-hosting the 2022 CMT Music Awards
Kelsea Ballerini will co-host the CMT (Country Music Television) Awards on Monday, April 11 at the MGM Grand Garden Arena in Las Vegas. Variety reports that the awards event will make its CBS debut in 2022 after previously airing exclusively on cable. Ballerini will be hosting for the second year in a row; in 2020, she shared hosting duties with fellow country music artist Kane Brown (Brown was hosting for his second year at the time).
This year, Ballerini is presenting alongside the actor Anthony Mackie, who is probably best known for his roles in the Marvel Avengers films. Margaret Comeaux, Leslie Fram, and John Hamlin, the show’s executive producers, said in a statement, “We couldn’t pass up the opportunity to match one of the biggest names in country music with one of the world’s most thrilling superheroes to host our biggest CMT Music Awards ever.”
When put together, “Kelsea and Anthony deliver huge star power that transcends the fields of music, movies, and pop culture with a supersized fan following,” as one critic put it. Mackie isn’t the first actor to host the CMT Music Awards; normally, it’s a country music star. In addition to Sarah Hyland and Kristen Bell, other actresses who have presented the awards show include Pamela Anderson and Brittany Snow.
“We know this dynamic team is the perfect pairing to elevate our show to the next level as we reach our largest global audience ever live on CBS,” the executive producers said.
Kelsea Ballerini net worth: $6 million
Kelsea Ballerini’s net worth is reported to be $6 million by Celebrity Net Worth. The country music singer’s first studio album, The First Time, was released in 2015. The album reached the top spot on the Billboard 200 and the top spot on the US Country album chart. Ballerini’s second album, Unapologetically, came out in November 2017 and was nominated for a Grammy for Best Country Album.
She became the fifth coach on the 15th season of The Voice in 2018. The Comeback Stage was a digital spinoff series where Ballerini mentored a group of contestants who did not receive a chair turn during blind auditions. In season 20 of The Voice (2021), she returned as a coach to temporarily replace Kelly Clarkson. They both happened in the same year she won the CMT Performance of the Year award and she co-hosted the CMT Music Awards with Kane Brown.
Career
In 2012, at the age of 19, Kelsea Ballerini inked a recording contract with Black River Entertainment. Her first single, “Love Me Like You Mean It,” was released in the fall of 2014 and quickly rose to the top of the Country Airplay chart in October of that same year. In November, she dropped an EP with the same name for the label. In 2014, she was recognised as a Next Women of Country by CMT. On February 14, 2015, she made her debut at the Grand Ole Opry, performing “Love Me Like You Mean It.”
Ballerini’s first studio album, titled The First Time, was released via Black River on May 19, 2015. In the chart dated July 4, 2015, the first single from the album, “Love Me Like You Mean It,” debuted at number one on Billboard Country Airplay, making Ballerini the first solo female country music artist to score a number one hit with her debut single since Carrie Underwood did so with “Jesus, Take the Wheel” in 2006.
With the success of “Dibs,” Ballerini topped the Country Airplay chart for the second time, joining the ranks of Jamie O’Neal as the only solo female country artists to accomplish this feat in consecutive singles. On March 21, 2016, “Peter Pan” was released as the album’s third single to country radio. By the end of September, Ballerini had made history as the first female country artist to have a single at the top of both the Country Airplay and Hot Country Songs charts.
Also, since Wynonna Judd in 1992, no other female artist has debuted with three consecutive number-one singles. On October 10, 2016, the album’s fourth song, “Yeah Boy,” was released to country radio. Second on Forbes’ 30 Under 30 – Music list is country music’s Kelsea Ballerini. Both Kelsea Ballerini and the “Peter Pan” music video and Kelsea Ballerini as Female Vocalist of the Year were nominated for 2017 Academy of Country Music Awards.
✨o n e m o n t h ✨ until subject to change is ours…how we feelin?
i’m 🤠🫠🫣😍🥹 pic.twitter.com/jUIQ1JisYA— Kelsea Ballerini (@KelseaBallerini) August 26, 2022
Ballerini’s second album, Legends, included the lead single, “Legends,” which was released in June 2017. Unapologetically, her second studio album, was released on November 3. As her highest-charting album to date, it opened at #3 on the Billboard Top Country Albums chart and #7 on the Billboard 200 Albums chart. “I Hate Love Songs” is the album’s second single, and it was released to the public in March.
A deluxe edition of the album, featuring four more tracks, was revealed in September of 2018. The Chainsmokers, a popular electronic dance music (EDM) duo, featured Ballerini on their single “This Feeling,” which was released on September 18, 2018. Released in October of 2018, “Miss Me More” was Unapologetically’s third and final single.
The country music star is nominated for multiple CMT Music Awards
Multiple award categories at the 2022 CMT Music Awards have been submitted for Kelsea Ballerini’s consideration. She may win Video of the Year and Collaborative Video of the Year for “half of my hometown” featuring Kenny Chesney, as well as CMT Performance of the Year for “I Quit Drinking” featuring Paul Klein of LANY, as reported by Rolling Stone.
Ballerini will be hosting the CMT Music Awards, which will air live on CBS at 8:00 p.m. ET on April 1. Paramount+ will also be streaming the ceremony live at the same time. Fans who are unable to watch the show live will be able to catch a “Extended Cut” broadcast on CMT on April 15.
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