How to ensure your award show sells out: Hannah Montana
The 2008 CMT Music Awards are embracing their pop side, tapping teen sensation Miley Cyrus/Hannah Montana as co-host. She'll be joined by dad, Billy "Achy Breaky Heart" Ray (see, there is a country connection after all), and the two are said to be performing at the April 14 awards.
Tickets for the awards, to be held at the Curb Event Center in Nashville, went on sale Feb. 23, from $25 to $100. But like anything the young Cyrus touches, tickets are already sold out, according to the Ticketmaster website. Not saying it's all because of Cyrus, but CMA tickets were available up to two weeks before the November awards.
Other performers at the CMT Awards include Alan Jackson, Brad Paisley, Carrie Underwood, Sugarland, Taylor Swift and Toby Keith, but with Cyrus guaranteed plenty of stage time, expect the CMT Awards to be the most in-demand award ticket of 2008. Needless to say, we will be monitoring this site.
The CMT appearance will give the teen Cyrus four consecutive award show appearances, dating back to the American Music Awards in November, the Grammys and the Oscars (pictured) this month. Will she top Beyonce as the artist with the most award show appearances in 2008?
Final nominees for the fan-voted CMTs will be announced on March 6.
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Miley Cyrus is supposed to be the saving grace of all awards shows?...Well, her appearance at the Oscars didn't do miracles obviously...again, it was a cheap ratings ploy ABC and it back-fired...she's sooooo yesterday!
Posted by: Frankie R. | February 26, 2008 at 11:29 AM
I like Miley's level-headed attitude. It's refreshing for someone her age and I think she's a very positive influence. Kudos to Miley and her family!
Posted by: Rich Gordon | February 26, 2008 at 02:58 PM
This show always sells out regardless of who the host is. Miley had absolutely nothing to do with it. The venue holds only 5,000 without production. Once you take out at least 25-30% of the seating capacity for the set, then take out another chunk of seating for the industry people, what do you have left to sell? Not much.
Posted by: Rita | February 28, 2008 at 02:11 PM