And for all of those investments into Jimmie Allen to mint him as one of mainstream country’s top rising performers, there will be no returns. Allen regularly appeared on the Grand Ole Opry, and was rumored to be in line for Opry membership in the coming years. Jimmie Allen was also given big opening opportunities on tour with Brad Paisley and Carrie Underwood, along important festival appearances. Allen even co-hosted the 2022 ACM Awards with Dolly Parton. So are other opportunities such as awards show appearances, which Jimmie Allen was afforded on numerous occasions. New Artist of the Year awards are an investment in the career of these individuals. Other recent CMA New Artist of the Year winners include Luke Combs and Morgan Wallen-arguably the genre’s two biggest stars. These awards are a major achievement, and often a harbinger for success in the coming years. Darius Rucker received the distinction back in 2009. The CMA Awards also named Allen Artist of the Year in 2021. This is the reason the ACM Awards named him the 2021 New Male Artist of the Year-the first ever Black man to win the award. The country music industry saw Allen as one of the genre’s brightest stars heading into the future. Jimmie Allen was not a major headliner, but he was a serious player in country music that the industry had invested in heavily and cultivated over the last few years. Even though Jimmie Allen was very much part of the gaggle of major label-signed male performers that no matter what song they released to country radio it ultimately went #1, Jimmie Allen was unique because he was Black, and gave country music a jolt of diversity that some have been clamoring for in country music. This has major implications on country music as it continues to face criticism for a lack of diversity. Irrespective of the legal outcomes, Jimmie Allen will no longer be a participant in the mainstream country industry, or at least not at the level that he was before. Interestingly though, no counter-suit has taken shape yet against the plaintiff, which commonly proceeds pleads of innocence by the accused.
There are only the implications of a civil suit. And so far, there haven’t been any criminal charges brought against him, at least that have been made public. Jimmie Allen is still innocent until he’s proven guilty. It’s not just the severity of the accusations against him from his day-to-day manager of prolonged sexual assault, rape, and harassment that were detailed in a Variety exposé, it is the specificity and details of the accusations that feel so damming, including a verified trip to the hospital by the victim, along with text messages, tour itineraries, and other information that corroborates her claims. Aside from an unequivocal exoneration that feels very unlikely at this point, the mainstream country music career of Jimmie Allen is over.
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