The 2025 CMA Awards will showcase new talent in country music when the ceremony gets underway on Nov. 19 in Nashville. BigXthaPlug , Ella Langley , Zach Top , Tucker Wetmore, and Stephen Wilson Jr. are all slated to perform.

BigXthaPlug, the Dallas rapper who released the country crossover album I Hope You’re Happy in August, is scheduled to perform “Pray Hard” off that LP, with the song’s collaborator Luke Combs . Combs is set to do double duty: He’ll sing his latest single “Back in the Saddle” too. Like BigXthaPlug, Stephen Wilson Jr. will also make his CMA Awards performing debut, delivering his viral cover of Ben E. King’s “Stand by Me” and teaming up with Shaboozey for their collab “Took a Walk.”

Wetmore and Top, also in their CMA Awards debuts, will sing “Wind Up

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