Morgan Wallen Wins 4 Billboard Music Awards – Watch His Acceptance Speech

Morgan Wallen did not attend Thursday night’s (Dec. 12) Billboard Music Awards.

The show is the one awards show where votes are not tallied. According to People, all the awards are based on “performance metrics on Billboard’s year-end charts. ”

The show, hosted by actress and comedian Michelle Buteau, aired on Thursday, December 12, on Fox and Amazon Fire TV and is now available to stream on Paramount+.

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The show also had incredible performances from Je,lly Roll, Coldplay, Megan Moroney, Shaboozey, Teddy Swims, and many more.

Morgan Wallen won big, taking home four awards.

Morgan Wallen was the third-most nominated artist at the 2024 Billboard Music Awards, with 15 nominations. Zach Bryan led nominations with 18, and Taylor Swift was right behind him with 16.

The “Last Night” singer was nominated in country and all-genre categories and won four awards in total!

He took home the following awards:

Top Male Artist
Top Country Artist
Top Country Male Artist
Top Collaboration (“I Had Some Help” with Post Malone)

Morgan Wallen was absent in person to accept the awards.

After being announced as the winner of his four categories, Wallen thanked his fans and Billboard, but not from the venue where the show was being heldwhere . He sent in a pre-recorded video as his acceptance speech.

Already holding a Billboard Music Award, Wallen said, “I just wanted to say thank you guys, for everyone who’s supported me along my journey. As always, and most importantly, thank you to my fans. You guys have just given me so much freedom to make music that I want to make, whether it’s a song that sounds similar to something I’ve put out in the past, or whether it’s something that’s completely different. You guys have always just at least given me the chance, and that’s all I can ask for. I really just want to say thank you guys for being that way with my music.”

This acceptance speech comes three weeks after he won Entertainer of the Year at the CMAs.

Wallen took home the biggest award of the night, Entertainer of the Year, at the CMA Awards on November 20th, but he did not attend to accept it. In factHet to even make a seven tot about it.

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Following his huge CMA Awards win, Wallen has performed on stage with his friend and collaborator ERNEST. He also appeared in court on Thursday (Dec. 12) to plead guilty to two misdemeanor counts of reckless endangerment.

Fans believe his silence over his CMA Award win is a statement to the Country Music Association over being blacklisted for a year. What do you think?