The Morgan Wallen comeback train is picking up speed.
The 28-year-old country singer will perform on next month’s Billboard Music Awards, event organizers announced Friday, his first television gig since he was caught on tape last year drunkenly using the N-word in a video published by TMZ.
Wallen’s use of the word threatened to derail a fast-moving career: Radio stations pulled his music from the air; his record label “suspended” his contract (without ever quite making clear what that meant); and various industry groups — including the Country Music Association, the Academy of Country Music and the Recording Academy — disqualified or merely ignored him for major awards.
