Taylor Swift to Perform at 2026 CMA Awards

Taylor Swift is set to perform at the 60th Country Music Association Awards on November 18, her first time on the CMA stage as a performer since 2013. The Country Music Association announced her appearance, which comes as she is nominated for Single of the Year for “I Knew It, I Knew You.”

Swift last performed at the ceremony in 2013, singing “Red” with Vince Gill and Alison Krauss and receiving the Pinnacle Award. She returned to the show in 2016 to present Garth Brooks with the Entertainer of the Year award, but has not performed there since. Her first CMA Awards appearance was in 2006.

The nomination for “I Knew It, I Knew You” is Swift’s 26th career CMA nomination. The song, written for “Toy Story 5,” was her first new release in more than a decade to be marketed as a country song, and it reached No. 1 on U.S. country radio, according to reports. Organizers have not announced what she will perform at the ceremony.

Swift won the CMA Horizon Award in 2007 and became the youngest artist to win Entertainer of the Year in 2009. She received that award twice. Her move toward pop music became prominent with the 2014 album “1989,” although her latest song has brought her back to...