2025 ACM Awards dominated by Lainey Wilson once more. Listed here are all of the winners.

2025 ACM Awards dominated by Lainey Wilson once more. Listed here are all of the winners.

Stay from the Purple Carpet: Cody Johnson amongst high nominees at ACM Awards in Frisco



Stay from the Purple Carpet: Cody Johnson amongst high nominees at ACM Awards in Frisco

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It was her evening as soon as once more. Lainey Wilson took residence the highest prize on the sixtieth annual Academy of Nation Music Awards — the title of entertainer of the yr — for a second yr in a row. And that was after she cleaned home, taking residence trophies for each feminine artist and album of the yr.

“I actually do have the perfect followers on this planet,” she mentioned in her closing acceptance speech, admitting to experiencing impostor syndrome. “I dreamed about entertaining. … Nation music has given me greater than I deserve.”

Past Wilson’s dominance, the 2025 ACM Awards had been filled with celebration. Earlier, first-time and main nominee Ella Langley’s duet with Riley Inexperienced, the ever present “You Look Like You Love Me,” was named single and music occasion of the yr.

Lainey Wilson attends the 2025 Academy of Nation Music Awards at The Ford Heart at The Star on Could 8, 2025 in Frisco, Texas. 

Picture by Taylor Hill/WireImage through Getty


Each Langley and Inexperienced used their first acceptance speech to shout out basic nation — songs with speaking in them — that impressed their fashionable hit.

A revisitation of the previous may need been a theme Thursday evening, evidenced proper on the high of the ceremony: a 14-minute medley of six many years of nation classics, carried out by giants of the style.

Host Reba McEntire launched into Merle Haggard’s “Okie from Muskogee,” adopted by Clint Black with Glen Campbell’s “Rhinestone Cowboy” and Wynonna Judd with The Judds’ “Why Not Me.” LeAnn Rimes returned to the ACM Awards stage for her 1997 ballad “Blue.” Little Massive City tackled their 2014 observe “Woman Crush” and Dan + Shay delivered their “Tequila.”

It was an thrilling option to kick off the ACM Awards, stay from the Ford Heart at The Star in Frisco, Texas, simply north of Dallas.

Here’s a record of all of the winners:

Entertainer of the 12 months

  • Kelsea Ballerini
  • Luke Combs
  • Cody Johnson
  • Jelly Roll
  • Chris Stapleton
  • Morgan Wallen
  • Winner: Lainey Wilson

Feminine Artist of the 12 months

  • Kelsea Ballerini
  • Ella Langley
  • Megan Moroney
  • Kacey Musgraves
  • Winner: Lainey Wilson

Male Artist of the 12 months

  • Luke Combs
  • Cody Johnson
  • Jelly Roll
  • Winner: Chris Stapleton
  • Morgan Wallen 

Duo of the 12 months

  • Winner: Brooks & Dunn
  • Brothers Osborne
  • Dan + Shay
  • Muscadine Bloodline
  • The Conflict and Treaty

Group of the 12 months

  • Flatland Cavalry
  • Little Massive City
  • Winner: Previous Dominion
  • Rascal Flatts
  • The Purple Clay Strays

Album of the 12 months

  • Am I Okay? (I will Be High quality), Megan Moroney
  • Fantastically Damaged, Jelly Roll
  • Chilly Beer & Nation Music, Zach Prime
  • F-1 Trillion, Publish Malone
  • Winner: Whirlwind, Lainey Wilson

Single of the 12 months

  • “A Bar Track (Tipsy),” Shaboozey
  • “Filth Low-cost,” Cody Johnson
  • “I Had Some Assist,” Publish Malone, Morgan Wallen
  • “White Horse,” Chris Stapleton
  • Winner: “You Look Like You Love Me,” Ella Langley, Riley Inexperienced

Track of the 12 months

  • “4x4xU,” Lainey Wilson
  • “The Architect,” Kacey Musgraves
  • Winner: “Filth Low-cost,” Cody Johnson
  • “I Had Some Assist,” Publish Malone, Morgan Wallen
  • “You Look Like You Love Me,” Ella Langley, Riley Inexperienced

Music Occasion of the 12 months

  • “Cowboys Cry Too,” Kelsea Ballerini, Noah Kahan
  • “I Had Some Assist,” Publish Malone, Morgan Wallen
  • “I am Gonna Love You,” Cody Johnson, Carrie Underwood
  • “We Do not Struggle Anymore,” Carly Pearce, Chris Stapleton
  • Winner: “You Look Like You Love Me,” Ella Langley, Riley Inexperienced

Songwriter of the 12 months

  • Jessi Alexander
  • Winner: Jessie Jo Dillon
  • Ashley Gorley
  • Chase McGill
  • Josh Osborne

Artist-Songwriter of the 12 months

  • Luke Combs
  • ERNEST
  • HARDY
  • Morgan Wallen
  • Winner: Lainey Wilson

Visible Media of the 12 months

  • “4x4xU,” Lainey Wilson; Producer: Jennifer Ansell; Director: Dano Cerny
  • “Filth Low-cost,” Cody Johnson; Producer: Dustin Haney; Director: Dustin Haney
  • “I am Gonna Love You,” Cody Johnson, Carrie Underwood; Producers: Christen Pinkston, Wesley Stebbins-Perry; Director: Dustin Haney
  • “Assume I am In Love With You,” Chris Stapleton; Producers: Wes Edwards, Angie Lorenz, Jamie Stratakis; Director: Operating Bear (Stephen Kinigopoulos, Alexa Stone)
  • Winner: “You Look Like You Love Me,” Ella Langley, Riley Inexperienced; Producer: Alex Pescosta; Administrators: Ella Langley, John Park, Wales Toney

New Feminine Artist of the 12 months

  • Kassi Ashton
  • Ashley Cooke
  • Dasha
  • Winner: Ella Langley
  • Jessie Murph

New Male Artist of the 12 months

  • Gavin Adcock
  • Shaboozey
  • Winner: Zach Prime
  • Tucker Wetmore
  • Bailey Zimmerman

New Duo or Group of the 12 months

  • Stressed Highway
  • Winner: The Purple Clay Strays
  • Treaty Oak Revival

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