{"id":2167879,"date":"2025-11-20T03:38:12","date_gmt":"2025-11-20T03:38:12","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/?p=2167879"},"modified":"2025-11-20T03:38:12","modified_gmt":"2025-11-20T03:38:12","slug":"zach-top-wins-new-artist-of-the-year-cma-accepts-with-beer-in-hand","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/zach-top-wins-new-artist-of-the-year-cma-accepts-with-beer-in-hand\/","title":{"rendered":"Zach Top Wins New Artist of the Year CMA, Accepts With Beer in Hand"},"content":{"rendered":"

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\n\tZach Top<\/a> didn\u2019t need anyone to hold his beer when he won big at the Country Music Association Awards<\/a> on Wednesday night (Nov. 19) \u2014 he just took it right on up with him.<\/p>\n

\n\tShortly after performing on stage at Bridgestone Arena in Nashville, the 28-year-old singer-songwriter was crowned new artist of the year, beating out Shaboozey, Ella Langley, Tucker Wetmore and Stephen Wilson Jr. In his excitement, Top \u2014 looking dapper in a blue suit and cowboy hat \u2014 neglected to set down his can of Coors before running up to accept the trophy.<\/p>\n

\n\tConfessing to the crowd that he couldn\u2019t remember if he was supposed to put his beer down or not, he said with a shrug, \u201cHere it is,\u201d before downing a celebratory sip.<\/p>\n

\n\tTop went on to thank numerous people on his team for helping him reach the CMA summit. \u201cIt\u2019s been a hell of a last couple of years,\u201d he concluded. \u201cSo, so thankful.\u201d<\/p>\n

\n\tThe onstage beer moment is certainly on brand for Top. The Washington native\u2019s 2024 debut album is titled Cold Beer & Country Music<\/em>, an LP he followed up this year with Ain\u2019t In It for My Health<\/em>, which reached No. 11 on the Billboard 200<\/a>. The latter full-length produced two Billboard Hot 100<\/a> hits: \u201cSouth of Sanity\u201d and \u201cGood Times & Tan Lines.\u201d<\/p>\n

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Have you played Billboard\u2019s \u201cA Little Bit Country\u201d Crossword?
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\n\tThe new artist victory is also probably quite vindicating for Top, whose absence from the best new artist Grammy category was considered one of the most head-scratching snubs<\/a> of the 2026 nominations, which went live earlier in November. In fact, no country artists were recognized in the category, with Langley and Megan Moroney also getting left out. <\/p>\n

\n\tEven so, Top certainly felt the love from the CMAs this year. The musician earned a total of five nods \u2014 including album of the year for Cold Beer & Country Music <\/em>\u2014 tying him for second-most nominations<\/a> in 2025.<\/p>\n


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Zach Top didn\u2019t need anyone to hold his beer when he won big at the Country Music Association Awards on Wednesday night (Nov. 19) \u2014 he just took it right on up with him. Shortly after performing on stage at Bridgestone Arena in Nashville, the 28-year-old singer-songwriter was crowned new artist of the year, beating […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":2167880,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"om_disable_all_campaigns":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"jnews-multi-image_gallery":[],"jnews_single_post":[],"jnews_primary_category":[],"jnews_social_meta":[],"footnotes":""},"categories":[25179],"tags":[25060,353699,309228,21932],"class_list":["post-2167879","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-music","tag-awards","tag-cma-awards","tag-genre-country","tag-music-news"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/11\/Zach-Top-Wins-New-Artist-of-the-Year-CMA-Accepts.jpg","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2167879","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2167879"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2167879\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2167881,"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2167879\/revisions\/2167881"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/2167880"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2167879"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2167879"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2167879"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}