13-05-2025
2025's CMA Awards announce date for event at Nashville's Bridgestone Arena
The Country Music Association and broadcast partner ABC have announced the date that the 59th CMA Awards will occur at Lower Broadway's Bridgestone Arena.
"Country Music's Biggest Night" will return to Nashville's Bridgestone Arena on Nov. 19, airing live on ABC at 8 p.m. ET/7 p.n. CT.
Details on the show's host and ticket on-sale will be shared in the coming weeks. The ceremony will also be available to stream on Hulu the next day.
As previously announced, the eligibility period for the 2025 CMA Awards is July 1, 2024 to June 30, 2025.
"The CMA Awards celebrate excellence in Country Music across 12 categories, honoring artists, musicians, songwriters, producers, mix engineers, and music video directors who significantly impacted the genre during the eligibility period," notes the CMA in a press statement.
2024's awards honored multi-platinum-selling pop-crossover country superstar Morgan Wallen as Entertainer of the Year, while Lainey Wilson won for Female Vocalist of the Year, Chris Stapleton won for Male Vocalist of the Year and Cody Johnson won Album of the Year for "Leather."
During the 2025 CMA Awards voting cycle, Jelly Roll, Shaboozey and Morgan Wallen have been the most dominant as far as chart-topping performers are concerned. Jelly Roll and Wallen are essentially in a dead-heat tie for weeks on top of Billboard's country radio charts over the past year. Insofar as sales, the pop dominance of Shaboozey's "A Bar Song (Tipsy)" has extended into 2025, as for more than 80 percent of the 2025 CMA Awards voting cycle to date, he's had Billboard's highest-selling country song.
Insofar as female artists to watch for 2025's CMA Awards, it's chart toppers Ella Langley and Jessie Murph — a pair of Alabama-born breakouts — whose surging acclaim will likely be highlighted.
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