{"id":392472,"date":"2025-11-20T15:14:10","date_gmt":"2025-11-20T15:14:10","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/392472\/"},"modified":"2025-11-20T15:14:10","modified_gmt":"2025-11-20T15:14:10","slug":"cma-awards-2025-winners-list-ella-langley-lainey-wilson-notch-wins","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/392472\/","title":{"rendered":"CMA Awards 2025 winners list \u2013 Ella Langley, Lainey Wilson notch wins"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Lainey Wilson made history, Zach Top was named new artist of the year and rising duo Ella Langley and Riley Green took top honors for their hit track &#8220;You Look Like You Love Me.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>We have the full list of the 59th annual <a href=\"https:\/\/www.usatoday.com\/story\/entertainment\/music\/2025\/09\/10\/cma-awards-nominations-2025-snubs-surprises\/86073316007\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">CMA Award nominees<\/a> and winners.<\/p>\n<p>The biggest names in country music touched down in Nashville for the 59th annual Country Music Association Awards on Wednesday, Nov. 19, where <a href=\"https:\/\/www.usatoday.com\/story\/entertainment\/music\/2025\/08\/15\/lainey-wilson-whirlwind-deluxe-tour\/85672569007\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">Lainey Wilson<\/a>\u00a0would go on to make history as the third woman to win a second entertainer of the year award. Wilson also won female vocalist of the year, and crooner <a href=\"https:\/\/www.usatoday.com\/story\/entertainment\/music\/2025\/10\/07\/cody-johnson-tour-canceled-eardrum-leather-deluxe\/86568288007\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">Cody Johnson<\/a> took home male vocalist of the year at the CMAs, which aired live on ABC.<\/p>\n<p>The duo behind &#8220;You Look Like You Love Me,&#8221; <a href=\"https:\/\/www.usatoday.com\/story\/entertainment\/music\/2025\/08\/11\/ella-langley-concert-cancellations-illness\/85617401007\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">Ella Langley<\/a> and <a href=\"https:\/\/www.usatoday.com\/story\/entertainment\/music\/2025\/01\/22\/riley-green-nashville-ella-langley-thomas-rhett\/77845250007\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">Riley Green<\/a>, also took home three awards for the single, song and music video of the year award categories.<\/p>\n<p>Two awards, musical event of the year and music video of the year, were revealed on &#8220;Good Morning America&#8221; on Wednesday morning ahead of the awards.<\/p>\n<p>Each award category below has all the nominees listed, with the winners <strong>in bold<\/strong>. Read on for the winners.<\/p>\n<p>Entertainer of the YearSingle of the Year (Award goes to Artist(s), Producer(s) &amp; Mix Engineer(s))<\/p>\n<ul class=\"wp-block-list\">\n<li>\u201c4x4xU\u201d \u2013 Lainey Wilson (Producer: Jay Joyce, Mix Engineers: Jason Hall, Jay Joyce)<\/li>\n<li>\u201cAin\u2019t No Love In Oklahoma\u201d \u2013 Luke Combs (Producers: Luke Combs, Chip Matthews, Jonathan Singleton, Mix Engineer: Chip Matthews)<\/li>\n<li>\u201cAm I Okay?\u201d \u2013 Megan Moroney (Producer: Kristian Bush, Mix Engineer: Justin Niebank)<\/li>\n<li>\u201cI Never Lie\u201d \u2013 Zach Top (Producer: Carson Chamberlain, Mix Engineer: Matt Rovey)<\/li>\n<li><strong><strong><strong><strong><strong><strong>\u201cYou Look Like You Love Me<\/strong>\u201d<\/strong><\/strong><\/strong><\/strong> \u2013 Ella Langley &amp; Riley Green (Producer: Will Bundy, Mix Engineer: Jim Cooley)<\/strong><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>Album of the Year (Award goes to Artist, Producer(s) and Mix Engineer(s))<\/p>\n<ul class=\"wp-block-list\">\n<li>&#8220;Am I Okay?&#8221; \u2013 Megan Moroney (Producer: Kristian Bush, Mix Engineer: Justin Niebank)<\/li>\n<li>&#8220;Cold Beer &amp; Country Music&#8221; \u2013 Zach Top (Producer: Carson Chamberlain, Mix Engineer: Matt Rovey<\/li>\n<li>&#8220;F-1 Trillion&#8221; \u2013 Post Malone (Producers: Louis Bell, Charlie Handsome, Hoskins, Mix Engineer: Ryan Gore)<\/li>\n<li>&#8220;I\u2019m The Problem&#8221; \u2013 Morgan Wallen (Producers: Jacob Durrett, Charlie Handsome, Joey Moi, Mix Engineers: Charlie Handsome, Joey Moi)<\/li>\n<li><strong>&#8220;Whirlwind&#8221; \u2013 Lainey Wilson (Producer: Jay Joyce, Mix Engineers: Jason Hall, Jay Joyce)<\/strong><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>Song of the Year (Award goes to songwriter(s))<\/p>\n<ul class=\"wp-block-list\">\n<li>\u201c4x4xU\u201d (Songwriters: Jon Decious, Aaron Raitiere, Lainey Wilson)<\/li>\n<li>\u201cAm I Okay?\u201d (Songwriters: Jessie Jo Dillon, Luke Laird, Megan Moroney)<\/li>\n<li>\u201cI Never Lie\u201d (Songwriters: Carson Chamberlain, Tim Nichols, Zach Top)<\/li>\n<li>\u201cTexas\u201d (Songwriters: Johnny Clawson, Josh Dorr, Lalo Guzman, Kyle Sturrock)<\/li>\n<li><strong><strong><strong><strong><strong><strong><strong>\u201cYou Look Like You Love Me<\/strong>\u201d<\/strong><\/strong><\/strong><\/strong><\/strong> (Songwriters: Riley Green, Ella Langley, Aaron Raitiere)<\/strong><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>Female Vocalist of the Year<\/p>\n<ul class=\"wp-block-list\">\n<li>Kelsea Ballerini<\/li>\n<li>Miranda Lambert<\/li>\n<li>Ella Langley<\/li>\n<li>Megan Moroney<\/li>\n<li><strong>Lainey Wilson<\/strong><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>Male Vocalist of the Year<\/p>\n<ul class=\"wp-block-list\">\n<li>Luke Combs<\/li>\n<li><strong>Cody Johnson<\/strong><\/li>\n<li>Chris Stapleton<\/li>\n<li>Zach Top<\/li>\n<li>Morgan Wallen<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>Vocal Group of the Year<\/p>\n<ul class=\"wp-block-list\">\n<li>Lady A<\/li>\n<li>Little Big Town<\/li>\n<li>Old Dominion<\/li>\n<li>Rascal Flatts<\/li>\n<li><strong>The Red Clay Strays<\/strong><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>Vocal Duo of the Year<\/p>\n<ul class=\"wp-block-list\">\n<li><strong>Brooks &amp; Dunn<\/strong><\/li>\n<li>Brothers Osborne<\/li>\n<li>Dan + Shay<\/li>\n<li>Maddie &amp; Tae<\/li>\n<li>The War And Treaty<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>Musical Event of the Year (Award goes to Artists and Producer(s))<\/p>\n<ul class=\"wp-block-list\">\n<li>\u201cDon\u2019t Mind If I Do\u201d \u2013 Riley Green (featuring Ella Langley) (Producers: Scott Borchetta, Jimmy Harnen, Dann Huff)<\/li>\n<li>\u201cHard Fought Hallelujah\u201d \u2013 Brandon Lake with Jelly Roll (Producer: Micah Nichols)<\/li>\n<li>\u201cI\u2019m Gonna Love You\u201d \u2013 Cody Johnson (with Carrie Underwood) (Producer: Trent Willmon)<\/li>\n<li><strong>\u201cPour Me A Drink\u201d \u2013 Post Malone (feat. Blake Shelton) (Producers: Louis Bell, Charlie Handsome)<\/strong><\/li>\n<li>\u201cYou Had To Be There\u201d \u2013 Megan Moroney (feat. Kenny Chesney) (Producer: Kristian Bush)<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>Musician of the Year<\/p>\n<ul class=\"wp-block-list\">\n<li>Jenee Fleenor \u2013 Fiddle<\/li>\n<li><strong>Paul Franklin \u2013 Steel Guitar<\/strong><\/li>\n<li>Brent Mason \u2013 Guitar<\/li>\n<li>Rob McNelley \u2013 Guitar<\/li>\n<li>Derek Wells \u2013 Guitar<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>Music Video of the Year (Award goes to Artist(s) and Director(s))<\/p>\n<ul class=\"wp-block-list\">\n<li>\u201cAm I Okay?\u201d \u2013 Megan Moroney (Directors: Alexandra Gavillet, Megan Moroney)<\/li>\n<li>\u201cI\u2019m Gonna Love You\u201d \u2013 Cody Johnson (with Carrie Underwood) (Director: Dustin Haney)<\/li>\n<li>\u201cSomewhere Over Laredo\u201d \u2013 Lainey Wilson (Director: TK McKamy)<\/li>\n<li>\u201cThink I\u2019m In Love With You\u201d \u2013 Chris Stapleton (Director: Running Bear)<\/li>\n<li><strong><strong><strong><strong><strong>\u201cYou Look Like You Love Me<\/strong>\u201d<\/strong><\/strong> <\/strong>\u2013 Ella Langley &amp; Riley Green (Directors: Ella Langley, John Park, Wales Toney)<\/strong><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>New Artist of the Year<\/p>\n<ul class=\"wp-block-list\">\n<li>Ella Langley<\/li>\n<li>Shaboozey<\/li>\n<li><strong>Zach Top<\/strong><\/li>\n<li>Tucker Wetmore<\/li>\n<li>Stephen Wilson Jr.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>The 59th Annual CMA Awards are voted on by the 7,132 voting-eligible CMA professional members, who represent all aspects of the country music landscape, including industry professionals, recording artists, songwriters, producers and musicians.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Lainey Wilson made history, Zach Top was named new artist of the year and rising duo Ella Langley&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":392473,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[29],"tags":[647,648,179853,60338,99646,185,665,186521,10443,185302,9958,3988,171,17081,3195,3351,186527,179852,122810,134226,160676,11150,425,666,23592,186524,20898,63193,6812,975,50,450,1457,351,186526,1451,464,10093,39043,186525,186523,186520,646,186522,67,132,68,76318],"class_list":{"0":"post-392472","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-music","8":"tag-affiliate","9":"tag-arts","10":"tag-ballerini","11":"tag-carrie","12":"tag-carrie-underwood","13":"tag-celebrities","14":"tag-celebrities-u0026-entertainment-news","15":"tag-chesney","16":"tag-chris","17":"tag-chris-stapleton","18":"tag-country","19":"tag-country-music","20":"tag-entertainment","21":"tag-franklin","22":"tag-industry","23":"tag-jonathan","24":"tag-jonathan-singleton","25":"tag-kelsea","26":"tag-kelsea-ballerini","27":"tag-kenny","28":"tag-kenny-chesney","29":"tag-lambert","30":"tag-local","31":"tag-local-affiliate-arts-u0026-entertainment","32":"tag-malone","33":"tag-miranda","34":"tag-miranda-lambert","35":"tag-morgan","36":"tag-morgan-wallen","37":"tag-music","38":"tag-news","39":"tag-overall","40":"tag-overall-positive","41":"tag-paul","42":"tag-paul-franklin","43":"tag-positive","44":"tag-post","45":"tag-post-malone","46":"tag-recording","47":"tag-recording-industry","48":"tag-singleton","49":"tag-stapleton","50":"tag-u0026","51":"tag-underwood","52":"tag-united-states","53":"tag-unitedstates","54":"tag-us","55":"tag-wallen"},"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"","error":"Validation failed: Text character limit of 500 exceeded"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/392472","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=392472"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/392472\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/392473"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=392472"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=392472"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=392472"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}