{"id":33866,"date":"2025-11-20T07:50:23","date_gmt":"2025-11-20T12:50:23","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/briwebapp.net\/cjwffm\/uncategorized\/2025\/11\/highlights-from-the-cma-awards\/"},"modified":"2025-11-20T07:50:23","modified_gmt":"2025-11-20T12:50:23","slug":"highlights-from-the-cma-awards","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/briwebapp.net\/cjwffm\/blogs\/country-music-news\/2025\/11\/highlights-from-the-cma-awards\/","title":{"rendered":"Highlights From The CMA Awards"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The 59th annual CMA Awards took place in Nashville on Wednesday, November 19.<\/p>\n<p>Luke Combs kicked off the night with a\u00a0raucous performance of \u201cBack in the Saddle.<\/p>\n<div class=\"video-shortcode embed-container\"><iframe loading=\"lazy\" title=\"YouTube video player\" width=\"610\" height=\"355\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/zbMdN2OwcYk\" frameborder=\"0\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe><\/div>\n<p>Host Lainey\u00a0Wilson then sang a medley of the year\u2019s biggest country hits to start her hosting duties, dancing and singing in the aisles with Ella Langley, Miranda Lambert, Shaboozey, and Little Big Town.<\/p>\n<iframe loading=\"lazy\" class=\"insta-iframe\" src=\"https:\/\/www.instagram.com\/p\/DRQuTzzjK4L\/embed\/captioned\" width=\"auto\" height=\"auto\" frameborder=\"0\" scrolling=\"no\"><span data-mce-type=\"bookmark\" style=\"display:inline-block; width: 0px; overflow: hidden; line-height:0;\"  class=\"mce_SELRES_start\"><\/span><\/iframe>\n<p>The ceremony was filled with a series of memorable performances, as Chris Stapleton delivered a rousing rendition of his F1 single, \u201cBad as I Used to Be.\u201d<\/p>\n<div class=\"video-shortcode embed-container\"><iframe loading=\"lazy\" title=\"YouTube video player\" width=\"610\" height=\"355\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/KjoFB6Jmvpg\" frameborder=\"0\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe><\/div>\n<p>Stapleton later joined with Miranda Lambert for their recent duet, \u201cA Song to Sing.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Zach Top won his very first CMA award for Best New Artist, after a spirited rendition of his current hit song, \u201cGuitar.\u201d<\/p>\n<div class=\"video-shortcode embed-container\"><iframe loading=\"lazy\" title=\"YouTube video player\" width=\"610\" height=\"355\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/rFbb8mct5pg\" frameborder=\"0\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe><\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"The 59th annual CMA Awards took place in Nashville on Wednesday, November 19.","protected":false},"author":16,"featured_media":32147,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"featured_img_display":"Yes","footnotes":""},"categories":[14],"tags":[6770,887,268,2991,5597],"class_list":["post-33866","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-country-music-news","tag-bad-as-i-used-to-be","tag-ccma-awards","tag-chris-stapleton","tag-lainey-wilson","tag-zach-top"],"publishpress_future_action":{"enabled":false,"date":"2026-04-12 12:00:35","action":"change-status","newStatus":"draft","terms":[],"taxonomy":"category","extraData":[]},"publishpress_future_workflow_manual_trigger":{"enabledWorkflows":[]},"react_link":"https:\/\/country959.com\/blogs\/country-music-news\/2025\/11\/highlights-from-the-cma-awards\/","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/briwebapp.net\/cjwffm\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/33866","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/briwebapp.net\/cjwffm\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/briwebapp.net\/cjwffm\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/briwebapp.net\/cjwffm\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/16"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/briwebapp.net\/cjwffm\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=33866"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/briwebapp.net\/cjwffm\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/33866\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/briwebapp.net\/cjwffm\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/32147"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/briwebapp.net\/cjwffm\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=33866"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/briwebapp.net\/cjwffm\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=33866"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/briwebapp.net\/cjwffm\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=33866"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}