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Get ready for the performance of a lifetime at the 2022 CMA Awards. Kelsea Ballerini, Kelly Clarkson, and Carly Pearce are set to team up for the performance of a…

Kelsea Ballerini hugging Carly Pearce
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Get ready for the performance of a lifetime at the 2022 CMA Awards. Kelsea Ballerini, Kelly Clarkson, and Carly Pearce are set to team up for the performance of a lifetime that will surely go down in CMA history. This powerful trio will be performing their new hit song "You're Drunk, Go Home" for the first time ever, all together!

The song was featured on Kelsea Ballerini's latest album "Subject To Change" and has become a fan favorite. The song is sassy and fun and features three of the most talented female vocalists in the music industry.

Kelsea's popular duet with Kenny Chesney "Half  Of My Hometown" won her two awards last year and is up for single of the year in 2022.  At last year's CMA awards, Carly won female vocalist of the year and is nominated in five categories this current season. Kelly Clarkson is no stranger to the CMA stage and has been nominated for five CMA awards across her career.

The 2022 CMA Awards will air live from Nashville’s Bridgestone Arena on November 9 on ABC at 8pm ET time. This is sure to be an epic performance that will inspire ya'll to tell that boy to walk away!

You’re Drunk, Go Home

The Best Collaborations In CMA History

The CMA Award stage has always been a place of legendary collaborations and unique performances. This year will be no different! With the CMA's just around the corner, we are taking a look back at some of the best collaborations in CMA history.

Starting from the most recent CMA Awards, we remember epic moments like Carly Pearce and Ashley McBryde performing their award-winning song, "Never Wanted To Be That Girl" and Jennifer Hudson and Chris Stapleton's moving tribute to Aretha Franklin in 2021.

Take a walk through collaborations of the past with unlikely combinations ranging from Beyoncé with the Dixie chicks in 2016, to N' Sync and Alabama in 1999!

2021: Carly Pearce + Ashley McBryde: Never Wanted to Be That Girl

2021: Jennifer Hudson + Chris Stapleton,: Aretha Franklin Tribute

2021: Jason Aldean + Carrie Underwood: If I Didn't Love You

2021: Mickey Guyton + Brittney Spencer + Madeline Edwards: Love My Hair

2020: Dan + Shay and Justin Bieber : 10,000 Hours

2019: Women of Country Medley

2019: Lady Antebellum + Halsey: What If I Never Get Over You + Graveyard

2019: Kacey Musgraves + Willie Nelson: Rainbow Connection

2019: Girl Crush Tribute

featuring: Kelsea Ballerini, Lindsay Ell, Runaway June, Maddie & Tae, Ashley McBryde, Carly Pearce, Little Big Town, and more!

2019: Brooks & Dunn Brothers Osborne: Hard Working Man

2017: Maren Morris + Niall Horan: Seeing Blind

2017: CMA tribute to Vegas Victims

Eric Church, Lady Antebellum, Darius Rucker, Keith Urban perform Amazing Grace" / "Hold My Hand as a tribute to Vegas victims.

2016: 50th Anniversary Performance

Performers:: Dwight Yoakam, Clint Black, Ricky Skaggs, Alan Jackson, Brad Paisley, Carrie Underwood

2016: The Chicks + Beyoncé

2016: Garth Brooks + Trisha Yearwood tribute to Johnny Cash & June Carter

2016: Dolly Parton Tribute

In honor of receiving her Willie Nelson Lifetime Achievement Award. Dolly received a legendary tribute from Jennifer Nettles and Pentatonix for “Jolene,” Reba McEntire for “9 to 5,” Kacey Musgraves for “Here You Come Again,” and Carrie Underwood, Martina McBride with “I Will Always Love You."

2015: Chris Stapleton + Justin Timberlake

2014: Miranda Lambert + Meghan Trainor: All About That Bass

2013: Taylor Swift + Alison Krauss + Vince Gill: Red

2013: Zac Brown Band + Dave Grohl: Day for the day

2012: Willie Nelson tribute

2011: blake shelton + kenny loggins: footloose

2010: Woman of Country pay tribute to Loretta Lynn: Coal Miner's Daughter

2010: Jason Aldean + Kelly Clarkson: Don't You Wanna Stay

2005: Dolly Parton + Elton John: Turn Out The Lights When You Leave

2000: Faith Hill + Tim McGraw tribute to willie Nelson

1999: N' Sync + Alabama: God Must Have Spent a Little More Time on You

1984: Lionel Richie Joins Kenny Rogers: Lady

1983: Kenny Rogers + Dolly Parton: Islands In The Stream

Unclear if this was the CMA Awards performance, but this video is from the same year.