Fans have been left in shock by Post Malone‘s ‘awful’ performance at the 2024 Country Music Association Awards on Wednesday.
While many of the country stars wowed the audience at the Music City Center in Nashville that night, Post was savaged on social media.
The 29-year-old took the stage that evening to perform the award show’s opening number California Sober with Chris Stapleton.
He then delivered a solo rendition of his ballad Yours, dedicated to his daughter, whom he welcomed with his fiancée in May 2022.
Many viewers were appalled by the quality of his voice, and quickly shared their unfiltered reactions on X, formerly Twitter.
‘The dogs in my neighborhood just stopped howling after that god awful performance by @postmalone,’ joked one.
‘Post Malone’s daughter is going to get emancipated and then elope after hearing her father’s awful performance on the #CMAawards,’ wrote another.
‘This Post Malone song is… awful,’ wrote another. ‘Know your range man. You’re a party song guy. You can’t sing good enough for slow, sad songs.’
‘Post Malone sounds terrible lmao,’ giggled one X user as another said: ‘I love Post Malone but he needs to stick with pop or whatever it was he was singing before’.
‘That performance was awful. Can we stop inviting him to ruin the awards shows? He butchered a Joe Diffie song last year. It’s enough,’ opined one viewer.
‘Listening to Post Malone was torture! #bad #realbad is it just me? Off key and just terrible as a whole,’ exclaimed another observer.
‘Post Malone’s performance sounded like the final hour of a terrible karaoke night,’ joked one X user as another said: ‘Post Malone on CMA is terrible!!!’
‘Post Malone hang it up ,you sound like crap I can sing better than you can !!! Sorry for being a troll, but some of this is just terrible,’ groaned one watcher.
‘What the hell?? Post Malone sounds like crap!!’ wrote one astonished X user. ‘He’s so off key! This wouldn’t get one turn on voice! He’s terrible tonight.’
The 2024 CMA Awards were hosted by country stars Lainey Wilson and Luke Bryan, accompanied by football legend Peyton Manning.
A formidable array of performers was assembled, including Chris Stapleton, Post Malone, Kelsea Ballerini, Jelly Roll, Keith Urban Kacey Musgraves and Shaboozey.
Iconic singer-songwriter George Strait, 72, has been designated the recipient of this year’s Willie Nelson Lifetime Achievement Award.
Morgan Wallen leads the nominations this year with seven, while Cody Johnson and Chris Stapleton nabbed five nods apiece.
The CMA Awards ignited a controversy this year by not giving any nominations to Beyoncé, who released her first country album Cowboy Carter this year.
It has emerged Beyoncé plans to submit Cowboy Carter to the country categories at the Grammys, igniting a debate among country fans over its eligibility.
Luke Bryan has stated that he hopes Beyonce can ‘get in the family’ of country music, during an appearance on Andy Cohen Live on SiriusXM.
2024 CMA Award Nominations
Entertainer of the Year
Luke Combs
Jelly Roll
Chris Stapleton
Morgan Wallen (WINNER)
Lainey Wilson
Album of the Year
Deeper Well – Kacey Musgraves; Producers: Ian Fitchuk, Kacey Musgraves, Daniel Tashian; Mix engineers: Shawn Everett, Konrad Snyder
Fathers & Sons – Luke Combs; Producers: Luke Combs, Chase Matthews, Jonathan Singleton; Mix engineer: Chip Matthews
Higher – Chris Stapleton; Producers: Dave Cobb, Chris Stapleton, Morgane Stapleton; Mix engineer: Vance Powell
Leather – Cody Johnson; Producer: Trent Willmon; Mix engineer: Jack Clarke (WINNER)
Whitsitt Chapel – Jelly Roll; Producers: Andrew Baylis, Brock Berryhill, Zach Crowell, Jesse Frasure, David Garcia, Kevin “Thrasher” Gruft, Austin Nivarel, David Ray Stevens; Mix engineers: Jeff Braun, Jim Cooley
Female Vocalist of the Year
Kelsea Ballerini
Ashley McBryde
Megan Moroney
Kacey Musgraves
Lainey Wilson (WINNER)
Male Vocalist of the Year
Luke Combs
Jelly Roll
Cody Johnson
Chris Stapleton (WINNER)
Morgan Wallen
Vocal Group of the Year
Lady A
Little Big Town
Old Dominion (WINNER)
The Red Clay Strays
Zac Brown Band
Vocal Duo of the Year
Brooks & Dunn (WINNER)
Brothers Osborne
Dan + Shay
Maddie & Tae
The War And Treaty
New Artist of the Year
Megan Moroney (WINNER)
Shaboozey
Nate Smith
Mitchell Tenpenny
Zach Top
Bailey Zimmerman
Single of the Year
A Bar Song (Tipsy) – Shaboozey; Producers: Sean Cook, Nevin Sastry; Mix engineer: Raul Lopez
Dirt Cheap – Cody Johnson; Producer: Trent Willmon; Mix engineer: Jack Clarke
I Had Some Help – Post Malone (Feat. Morgan Wallen); Producers: Louis Bell, Charlie Handsome, Hoskins; Mix engineer: Ryan Gore
Watermelon Moonshine – Lainey Wilson; Producer: Jay Joyce; Mix engineers: Jason Hall, Jay Joyce
White Horse – Chris Stapleton; Producers: Dave Cobb, Chris Stapleton, Morgane Stapleton; Mix engineer: Vance Powell (WINNER)
Song of the Year
Burn It Down – Hillary Lindsey, Parker McCollum, Lori McKenna, Liz Rose
Dirt Cheap – Josh Phillips
I Had Some Help – Louis Bell, Ashley Gorley, Charlie Handsome, Hoskins, Austin Post, Ernest Keith Smith, Morgan Wallen, Chandler Paul Walters
The Painter – Benjy Davis, Kat Higgins, Ryan Larkins
White Horse – Chris Stapleton, Dan Wilson (WINNER)
Musical Event of the Year
Cowboys Cry Too – Kelsea Ballerini (with Noah Kahan); Producers: Kelsea Ballerini, Alysa Vanderheym
I Had Some Help – Post Malone (Feat. Morgan Wallen); Producers: Louis Bell, Charlie Handsome, Hoskins
I Remember Everything – Zach Bryan (ft. Kacey Musgraves); Producer: Zach Bryan
Man Made A Bar – Zach Bryan (ft. Kacey Musgraves); Producer: Joey Moi
you look like you love me – Ella Langley (feat. Riley Green); Producer: Will Bundy (WINNER)
Music Video of the Year
Dirt Cheap – Cody Johnson, directed by Dustin Haney
I Had Some Help – Post Malone (Feat. Morgan Wallen), directed by Chris Villa
I’m Not Pretty – Megan Moroney, directed by Jeff Johnson and Megan Moroney
The Painter – Cody Johnson, directed by Dustin Haney
Wildflowers and Wild Horses – Lainey Wilson, directed by Patrick Tracy (WINNER)
Musician of the Year
Tom Bukovac
Jenee Fleenor
Paul Franklin
Rob McNelley
Charlie Worsham (WINNER)
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