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The Country Music Association Awards wouldn\u2019t be complete without, well, some \u201ccountry dang music,\u201d as entertainer of the year Lainey Wilson phrased it Wednesday night (Nov. 19) while hosting the 2025 ceremony at Bridgestone Arena in Nashville.<\/p>\n
That\u2019s why numerous artists took the stage for a cornucopia of live performances during this year\u2019s program, bringing energy and passion for their craft in between the presentations of awards. Chris Stapleton, as he often does at award shows, performed multiple times throughout the night, jamming out with his band for a bluesy showcase of F1 <\/em>soundtrack hit \u201cBad As I Used to Be\u201d in addition to duetting with Miranda Lambert on \u201cA Song to Sing\u201d and accompanying Wilson for a medley of country hits.<\/p>\n More from Billboard<\/strong><\/p>\n Other standout performances included Shaboozey and Stephen Wilson Jr.\u2019s moving rendition of \u201cTook a Walk\u201d \u2014 their collaboration for this year\u2019s film adaptation of Stephen King\u2019s The Long Walk <\/em>\u2014 as well as Kelsea Ballerini singing \u201cI Sit in Parks\u201d on a swing set in the rain and Brandi Carlile honoring Vince Gill with Patty Loveless. Plus, Zach Top, Ella Langley, Megan Moroney, Luke Combs, Riley Green, Tucker Wetmore and several other stars all showed up and showed out for the occasion, performing some of country music\u2019s biggest smashes of the year for an audience of their peers.<\/p>\n Have you played Billboard\u2019s \u201cA Little Bit Country\u201d Crossword? But while Billboard <\/em>definitely has some thoughts<\/a> on who sounded best Wednesday night, we want to know yours. Tell us which you think was the best performance at the 2025 CMAs by voting in the poll below.<\/p>\n <\/a> Billboard VIP Pass<\/p>\n<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n Best of Billboard<\/strong><\/p>\n Sign up for Billboard’s Newsletter<\/a>. For the latest news, follow us on Facebook<\/a>, Twitter<\/a>, and Instagram<\/a>.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n \u2018 The preceding article may include information circulated by third parties \u2019 <\/em><\/p>\n \u2018 Some details of this article were extracted from the following source www.yahoo.com \u2019 <\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" The Country Music Association Awards wouldn\u2019t be complete without, well, some \u201ccountry dang music,\u201d as entertainer of the year Lainey Wilson phrased it Wednesday night (Nov. 19) while hosting the 2025 ceremony at Bridgestone Arena in Nashville. That\u2019s why numerous artists took the stage for a cornucopia of live performances during this year\u2019s program, bringing […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":2021507,"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":[25172],"tags":[416556,29110,322828,307956,22846,306233,307957,308486,416321,374612],"class_list":["post-2168902","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-entertainment","tag-2025-ceremony","tag-billboard","tag-bridgestone-arena","tag-chris-stapleton","tag-country-music","tag-kelsea-ballerini","tag-lainey-wilson","tag-miranda-lambert","tag-stephen-wilson","tag-wednesday-night"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/09\/Charli-XCX-and-George-Daniel-marry-for-second-time-in.jpeg","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2168902","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=2168902"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2168902\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2168903,"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2168902\/revisions\/2168903"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/2021507"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2168902"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2168902"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2168902"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}\n
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