NEED TO KNOW
- More 2025 CMA Awards performers have been announced
- Kelsea Ballerini, Kenny Chesney, Miranda Lambert and more artists will take the stage at the ceremony
- The 59th Annual CMA Awards will air live from Nashville’s Bridgestone Arena on Wednesday, Nov. 19 on ABC and stream the next day on Hulu
The 2025 CMA Awards will be jam-packed with performances.
On Thursday, Nov. 13, the Country Music Association and ABC announced another batch of performers set to take the stage at the 59th Annual CMA Awards, including Kelsea Ballerini, Kenny Chesney, Miranda Lambert and more.
Brandi Carlile, Riley Green, Patty Loveless, Old Dominion, The Red Clay Strays and Chris Stapleton will also perform at the upcoming ceremony.
Brandi Carlile in New York City in October 2025.
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Ballerini, 32, will debut her new song “I Sit in Parks” during the show, while Chesney’s performance will mark the 57-year-old artist’s induction in to the Country Music Hall of Fame.
Green, 37, is slated to perform “Worst Way,” and Old Dominion will stage a medley of “Break Up with Him,” “Memory Lane,” “One Man Band,” “Hotel Key” and “Snapback.”
The Red Clay Strays will perform “People Hatin’,” while Stapleton, 47, is set to sing F1: The Movie single “Bad as I Used to Be.”
Lambert, 42, and Stapleton will also join forces for a duet performance of “A Song to Sing.”
Vince Gill in Nashville in March 2025.
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Earlier this week, Vince Gill was announced as this year’s Willie Nelson Lifetime Achievement Award honoree. He will be celebrated with a tribute performance at the awards show.
Previously announced 2025 CMA Awards performers include BigXthaPlug, Luke Combs, Ella Langley, Megan Moroney, Shaboozey, Zach Top, Tucker Wetmore, Lainey Wilson and Stephen Wilson Jr.
Wilson, 33, will also serve as the show’s host — after she shared the duty with Luke Bryan and Peyton Manning in 2024. “I grew up watching the CMA Awards like it was the Super Bowl, so to be hosting for a second year is a true honor,” she said in a statement.
Lainey Wilson.
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The Grammy winner added, “I’m humbled that CMA has trusted me with this role, and I can’t wait to love on this genre that has given me so much.”
This year’s CMA Awards nominations were led by Langley and Moroney, 28, with six each, while Zach Top earned five nods. Green and Cody Johnson each scored four.
The 59th Annual CMA Awards will air live from Nashville’s Bridgestone Arena on Wednesday, Nov. 19 on ABC and stream the next day on Hulu.
