Her song I Knew It, I Knew You is up for Single of the Year, and the show airs live on Wednesday, Nov. 18.
Taylor Swift will perform at the 60th Annual CMA Awards, the CMAs and ABC announced on Friday, Nov. 13. It will be her first performance at the ceremony in 13 years.
Swift has a nod in the Single of the Year category for I Knew It, I Knew You, her 26th career CMA nomination. She wrote and recorded the song for the animated film Toy Story 5 and co-produced it with Jack Antonoff. It topped the Billboard Hot 100 for two weeks, and it is the first brand new song in more than a decade marketed as a country song to reach No. 1 on country radio. Ella Langley leads this year's CMA Awards with nine nominations, and two of her tracks, Be Her and Choosin' Texas, are up against Swift. Lainey Wilson's Somewhere Over Laredo and Cody Johnson's The Fall are also in the category.
Swift last performed at the show in 2013, when she played Red alongside Vince Gill and Alison Krauss and received the Pinnacle Award. Her most recent appearance at the ceremony before this year came in 2016, when she unexpectedly walked out in the show's final minutes to hand Garth Brooks the Entertainer of the Year prize.
Swift has been spending more time in Nashville lately. Brad Paisley inducted her into the Nashville Songwriters Hall of Fame during a ceremony in the city last month. In her acceptance speech, Swift said her range as a creator comes from the city: "the only reason that I've been able to have that kind of dexterity in my creative process is because of the fundamentals and the foundation that I learned here in Nashville."
Swift also said what the city means to her:
"I will cherish it forever because Nashville is the place that honed and polished the thing about myself and the thing about my life that I am the most proud of and the most passionate about."
Halestorm, Marcus King, Luke Bryan, Hardy and Brothers Osborne are slated to perform in the Brooks and Dunn segment, which celebrates Brooks and Dunn as this year's Lifetime Achievement Award honourees. The lineup for the Dolly Parton tribute has not yet been unveiled. Rumours suggested Swift might appear in that set, but Rolling Stone has confirmed she is not part of it.
Swift confirmed in an Instagram Stories post in September that she would attend. The announcement gave no details on what she will perform.
The 60th Annual CMA Awards, hosted by Lainey Wilson for a third consecutive year, airs live from Nashville's Bridgestone Arena on Wednesday, Nov. 18, on ABC and Disney+, and is available the next day on Hulu.
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