Live from the Red Carpet: Cody Johnson among apical nominees astatine ACM Awards successful Frisco
It was her nighttime erstwhile again. Lainey Wilson took location the apical prize astatine the 60th yearly Academy of Country Music Awards — the rubric of entertainer of the twelvemonth — for a 2nd twelvemonth successful a row. And that was aft she cleaned house, taking location trophies for some pistillate creator and medium of the year.
"I truly bash person the champion fans successful the world," she said successful her last acceptance speech, admitting to experiencing impostor syndrome. "I dreamed astir entertaining. ... Country euphony has fixed maine much than I deserve."
Beyond Wilson's dominance, the 2025 ACM Awards were packed with celebration. Earlier, first-time and starring nominee Ella Langley's duet with Riley Green, the ubiquitous "You Look Like You Love Me," was named azygous and euphony lawsuit of the year.

Both Langley and Green utilized their archetypal acceptance code to outcry retired classical state — songs with talking successful them — that inspired their modern hit.
A revisitation of the past mightiness person been a taxable Thursday night, evidenced close astatine the apical of the ceremony: a 14-minute medley of six decades of state classics, performed by giants of the genre.
Host Reba McEntire launched into Merle Haggard's "Okie from Muskogee," followed 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 signifier for her 1997 ballad "Blue." Little Big Town tackled their 2014 way "Girl Crush" and Dan + Shay delivered their "Tequila."
It was an breathtaking mode to footwear disconnected the ACM Awards, unrecorded from the Ford Center astatine The Star successful Frisco, Texas, conscionable northbound of Dallas.
Here is simply a database of each the winners:
Entertainer of the Year
- Kelsea Ballerini
- Luke Combs
- Cody Johnson
- Jelly Roll
- Chris Stapleton
- Morgan Wallen
- Winner: Lainey Wilson
Female Artist of the Year
- Kelsea Ballerini
- Ella Langley
- Megan Moroney
- Kacey Musgraves
- Winner: Lainey Wilson
Male Artist of the Year
- Luke Combs
- Cody Johnson
- Jelly Roll
- Winner: Chris Stapleton
- Morgan Wallen
Duo of the Year
- Winner: Brooks & Dunn
- Brothers Osborne
- Dan + Shay
- Muscadine Bloodline
- The War and Treaty
Group of the Year
- Flatland Cavalry
- Little Big Town
- Winner: Old Dominion
- Rascal Flatts
- The Red Clay Strays
Album of the Year
- Am I Okay? (I'll Be Fine), Megan Moroney
- Beautifully Broken, Jelly Roll
- Cold Beer & Country Music, Zach Top
- F-1 Trillion, Post Malone
- Winner: Whirlwind, Lainey Wilson
Single of the Year
- "A Bar Song (Tipsy)," Shaboozey
- "Dirt Cheap," Cody Johnson
- "I Had Some Help," Post Malone, Morgan Wallen
- "White Horse," Chris Stapleton
- Winner: "You Look Like You Love Me," Ella Langley, Riley Green
Song of the Year
- "4x4xU," Lainey Wilson
- "The Architect," Kacey Musgraves
- Winner: "Dirt Cheap," Cody Johnson
- "I Had Some Help," Post Malone, Morgan Wallen
- "You Look Like You Love Me," Ella Langley, Riley Green
Music Event of the Year
- "Cowboys Cry Too," Kelsea Ballerini, Noah Kahan
- "I Had Some Help," Post Malone, Morgan Wallen
- "I'm Gonna Love You," Cody Johnson, Carrie Underwood
- "We Don't Fight Anymore," Carly Pearce, Chris Stapleton
- Winner: "You Look Like You Love Me," Ella Langley, Riley Green
Songwriter of the Year
- Jessi Alexander
- Winner: Jessie Jo Dillon
- Ashley Gorley
- Chase McGill
- Josh Osborne
Artist-Songwriter of the Year
- Luke Combs
- ERNEST
- HARDY
- Morgan Wallen
- Winner: Lainey Wilson
Visual Media of the Year
- "4x4xU," Lainey Wilson; Producer: Jennifer Ansell; Director: Dano Cerny
- "Dirt Cheap," Cody Johnson; Producer: Dustin Haney; Director: Dustin Haney
- "I'm Gonna Love You," Cody Johnson, Carrie Underwood; Producers: Christen Pinkston, Wesley Stebbins-Perry; Director: Dustin Haney
- "Think I'm In Love With You," Chris Stapleton; Producers: Wes Edwards, Angie Lorenz, Jamie Stratakis; Director: Running Bear (Stephen Kinigopoulos, Alexa Stone)
- Winner: "You Look Like You Love Me," Ella Langley, Riley Green; Producer: Alex Pescosta; Directors: Ella Langley, John Park, Wales Toney
New Female Artist of the Year
- Kassi Ashton
- Ashley Cooke
- Dasha
- Winner: Ella Langley
- Jessie Murph
New Male Artist of the Year
- Gavin Adcock
- Shaboozey
- Winner: Zach Top
- Tucker Wetmore
- Bailey Zimmerman
New Duo oregon Group of the Year
- Restless Road
- Winner: The Red Clay Strays
- Treaty Oak Revival
- In:
- ACM Awards