The 59th Annual Country Music Association Awards is officially in the books, and “Country Music’s Biggest Night” did not disappoint.<\/p>\n
Lainey Wilson hosted and took home three awards, including Entertainer of the Year.<\/p>\n
Ella Langeley and Riley Green also won three CMA’s for their duet “You Look Like You Love Me.”<\/p>\n
Here’s who won in every category:<\/p>\n
Entertainer of the Year: Lainey Wilson<\/p>\n
Female Vocalist of the Year: Lainey Wilson<\/p>\n
Male Vocalist of the Year: Cody Johnson<\/p>\n
New Artist of the Year: Zach Top<\/p>\n
Vocal Group of the Year:\u00a0 The Red Clay Strays<\/p>\n
Vocal Duo of the Year: Brooks & Dunn. That now brings their CMA total to 20. They have the most in history.<\/p>\n
Album of the Year: “Whirlwind” by Lainey Wilson<\/p>\n
Single of the Year: “You Look Like You Love Me” by Ella Langley and Riley Green<\/p>\n
Song of the Year: “You Look Like You Love Me” written by Ella Langley, Riley Green, and Aaron Raitiere<\/p>\n
Music Video of the Year: “You Look Like You Love Me” by Ella Langley and Riley Green<\/p>\n
Musical Event of the Year: “Pour Me a Drink” by Post Malone featuring Blake Shelton<\/p>\n
Willie Nelson Lifetime Achievement Award: Vince Gill<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"The 59th Annual Country Music Association Awards is officially in the books, and “Country Music’s Biggest Night” did not disappoint.","protected":false},"author":16,"featured_media":45610,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"featured_img_display":"Yes","footnotes":""},"categories":[16],"tags":[305,2965],"class_list":["post-46468","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-country-music-news","tag-cma-awards","tag-lainey-wilson"],"publishpress_future_action":{"enabled":false,"date":"2026-04-10 23:51:52","action":"change-status","newStatus":"draft","terms":[],"taxonomy":"category","extraData":[]},"publishpress_future_workflow_manual_trigger":{"enabledWorkflows":[]},"react_link":"https:\/\/country929.com\/blogs\/country-music-news\/2025\/11\/big-night-for-lainey-wilson-at-the-cma-awards\/","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/briwebapp.net\/cfcofm\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/46468","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/briwebapp.net\/cfcofm\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/briwebapp.net\/cfcofm\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/briwebapp.net\/cfcofm\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/16"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/briwebapp.net\/cfcofm\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=46468"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/briwebapp.net\/cfcofm\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/46468\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":46471,"href":"https:\/\/briwebapp.net\/cfcofm\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/46468\/revisions\/46471"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/briwebapp.net\/cfcofm\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/45610"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/briwebapp.net\/cfcofm\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=46468"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/briwebapp.net\/cfcofm\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=46468"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/briwebapp.net\/cfcofm\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=46468"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}