Lainey Wilson To Perform At The 2024 ‘People’s Choice Awards’

Author Lauren Hoffman

February 13th 2:24 PM

LOS ANGELES, CALIFORNIA - FEBRUARY 03: Lainey Wilson attends the Pre-GRAMMY Gala & GRAMMY Salute to Industry Icons Honoring Jon Platt at The Beverly Hilton on February 03, 2024 in Los Angeles, California. (Photo by Leon Bennett/Getty Images for The Recording Academy)

Lainey Wilson is headed to California to perform live at the 2024 People’s Choice Awards on Sunday, February 18. The show will take place at The Barker Hangar in Santa Monica and will be hosted by actor Simu Liu.

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Not only is Wilson hitting the stage during the People’s Choice Awards, but she’s also a nominee. Wilson has been nominated in The Female Artist category and The Female Country Artist category alongside Ashley McBryde, Carly Pearce, Carrie Underwood, Gabby Barrett, Kelsea Ballerini, Megan Moroney, and Shania Twain.

Wilson and Kylie Minogue have since been the only two performers announced at the upcoming 2024 People’s Choice Awards. In addition, singer, songwriter, and actor Lenny Kravitz will be honored with the Music Icon Award while Golden Globe and Emmy award-nominated actor Adam Sandler will receive the People’s Icon Award.

Wilson, who won Entertainer of the Year, Album of the Year (Bellbottom Country), and Female Vocalist of the Year at the 2023 CMA Awards is on top of the world. Most recently, the 31-year-old won her first-ever GRAMMY for Best Country Album.

“Leaving LA feeling extremely blessed…not just for the win but also for the friends that came out there with me and the new ones I met along the way. This ride and family just got 10x wilder and bigger and that right there is the win. I’m proud of what we’ve done and what’s to come, and it’s comin’ soon. Y’all buckle up,” Wilson posted on Instagram.

Wilson has also been very busy in the studio working on new music following the success of Bellbottom Country and her hit singles “Heart Like A Truck,” “Watermelon Moonshine,” and “Wildflowers And Wild Horses.” She has announced that her next track, “Country’s Cool Again,” will be released later this month.

“Country isn’t just a genre for me or for any of us that live and breathe it every single day. It’s a way of life. It’s always been cool and I think I speak for everyone when I say, we’re just glad it’s gettin’ a lil more recognition and love these days. Welcome to the party, cowgirls and cowboys,” Wilson shared to social media.

Click here for more information on the 2024 People’s Choice Awards.

5 Lainey Wilson Music Videos Everyone Should Watch

"Things A Man Oughta Know" (2020)
This music video is quite personal as it was filmed in Lainey’s own home and filled with personal elements and close friends. It was released on April 2, 2021.

Wilson told us at the time of release, “I hoped that people would connect to this song, and it’s been so incredible to see just how strong the reaction has been. For the music video, we wanted to create a piece of art where people could watch it and feel something all over again.”
"Heart Like A Truck" (2022)
This cinematic video stars Lainey as a stable hand who is brought in to earn the trust of a free-spirited pony that no one else has been able to tame. Through time, care, and patience, she can get through the difficult period and eventually rides the horse around the farm, designed to mirror her own approach to relationships.

Wilson recently celebrated the song going to number one on the country charts with a party on Music Row, where she and the song’s co-writers sang it from their own separate truck beds in a parking lot.
"Grease" (2023)
This song was never released as a single, but they did make a music video of it, and it’s kind of personal to this journalist as my buddy, a budding country singer named Presley, is a dancing extra in it, dancing right beside Lainey. The video features a bunch of breakdancers all dancing to the song in front of Wilson’s tour buses.
"Watermelon Moonshine" (2023)
It’s another number-one country song. Lainey told us about it, “This song embodies what country music means to me, creating a timeless story that will resonate with people for generations to come. This song is about the crazy, young, nostalgic love we all hope to experience.” The video has been watched almost 10 million times on YouTube.

Even though Wilson is an actress herself, she actually has actors Rachel Lynn Matthews and Sam Sherrod play in the video, acting out the storyline of the song and depicting the unfolding of a young love. Wilson performs the song in a field as she narrates the story.
"Wait In The Truck" (2022)
This fantastic video from a duet with Lainey and HARDY is an award winner. It won the CMA for Music Video of the Year and the Musical Event of the Year award. “Wait In The Truck” also won the Visual Media of the Year (basically Video of the Year) at the 2023 ACM Awards. The music video also won Collaborative Music Video of the Year at the 2023 CMT Music Awards and was nominated for Video of the Year.

In this journalist’s opinion, the murder ballad and video is one of country music’s most prolific videos in the last decade. The video has been watched 69 million times on YouTube.