{"id":51028,"date":"2025-11-06T16:12:25","date_gmt":"2025-11-06T16:12:25","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/musicianvoice.com\/index.php\/2025\/11\/06\/ella-langley-bigxthaplug-luke-combs\/"},"modified":"2025-11-06T16:12:25","modified_gmt":"2025-11-06T16:12:25","slug":"ella-langley-bigxthaplug-luke-combs","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/musicianvoice.com\/index.php\/2025\/11\/06\/ella-langley-bigxthaplug-luke-combs\/","title":{"rendered":"Ella Langley, BigXthaPlug, Luke Combs"},"content":{"rendered":"<p> <br \/>\n<\/p>\n<div id=\"\">\n<p>Stephen Wilson Jr., Megan Moroney, Ella Langley, Zach Top, and more are also slated to sing at the Nov. 19 country music awards<\/p>\n<\/p><\/div>\n<div>\n\t\t<!-- do not apply CSS styles to this element! --><\/p>\n<div class=\"pmc-paywall\">\n<p class=\"paragraph larva \/\/ lrv-u-line-height-copy  lrv-a-font-body-l   \">\n\tThe 2025 <a href=\"https:\/\/www.rollingstone.com\/t\/cma-awards\/\" id=\"auto-tag_cma-awards\" data-tag=\"cma-awards\">CMA Awards<\/a> will showcase new talent in country music when the ceremony gets underway on Nov. 19 in Nashville. <a href=\"https:\/\/www.rollingstone.com\/t\/bigxthaplug\/\" id=\"auto-tag_bigxthaplug\" data-tag=\"bigxthaplug\">BigXthaPlug<\/a>, <a href=\"https:\/\/www.rollingstone.com\/t\/ella-langley\/\" id=\"auto-tag_ella-langley\" data-tag=\"ella-langley\">Ella Langley<\/a>, <a href=\"https:\/\/www.rollingstone.com\/t\/zach-top\/\" id=\"auto-tag_zach-top\" data-tag=\"zach-top\">Zach Top<\/a>, Tucker Wetmore, and Stephen Wilson Jr. are all slated to perform.<\/p>\n<p class=\"paragraph larva \/\/ lrv-u-line-height-copy  lrv-a-font-body-l   \">\n\tBigXthaPlug, the Dallas rapper who released the country crossover album <em><a href=\"https:\/\/www.rollingstone.com\/music\/music-album-reviews\/bigxthaplug-i-hope-youre-happy-now-1235413119\/\">I Hope You\u2019re Happy<\/a><\/em> in August, is scheduled to perform \u201cPray Hard\u201d off that LP, with the song\u2019s collaborator <a href=\"https:\/\/www.rollingstone.com\/t\/luke-combs\/\" id=\"auto-tag_luke-combs\" data-tag=\"luke-combs\">Luke Combs<\/a>. Combs is set to do double duty: He\u2019ll sing his latest single \u201cBack in the Saddle\u201d too. Like BigXthaPlug, <a href=\"https:\/\/www.rollingstone.com\/music\/music-features\/stephen-wilson-jr-country-son-of-dad-interview-1235288611\/\">Stephen Wilson Jr. <\/a>will also make his CMA Awards performing debut, delivering his viral cover of Ben E. King\u2019s \u201cStand by Me\u201d and teaming up with <a href=\"https:\/\/www.rollingstone.com\/t\/shaboozey\/\" id=\"auto-tag_shaboozey\" data-tag=\"shaboozey\">Shaboozey<\/a> for their collab \u201cTook a Walk.\u201d<\/p>\n<p class=\"paragraph larva \/\/ lrv-u-line-height-copy  lrv-a-font-body-l   \">\n\tWetmore and Top, also in their CMA Awards debuts, will sing \u201cWind Up Missin\u2019 You\u201d and \u201cGuitar,\u201d respectively.<\/p>\n<p class=\"paragraph larva \/\/ lrv-u-line-height-copy  lrv-a-font-body-l   \">\n\tLangley, <a href=\"https:\/\/www.rollingstone.com\/t\/megan-moroney\/\" id=\"auto-tag_megan-moroney\" data-tag=\"megan-moroney\">Megan Moroney<\/a>, and the CMA Awards\u2019 host Lainey Wilson represent the three women in the first round of announced CMA performers. Langley will sing \u201cChoosin\u2019 Texas\u201d with Moroney offering \u201c6 Months Later\u201d; Wilson\u2019s song has yet to be announced.<\/p>\n<section class=\"brands-most-popular \/\/ recirculation-modules trending-in-article lrv-u-margin-tb-2 lrv-u-border-a-2 u-box-shadow-5-5 lrv-u-padding-lr-1 a-span1 u-padding-b-1@tablet u-overflow-hidden\">\n<h2 id=\"section-heading\" class=\"c-heading larva  lrv-u-text-align-center u-border-color-black a-font-theme-primary-xxs lrv-u-color-black lrv-u-text-transform-uppercase u-letter-spacing-0063 lrv-u-padding-t-050 u-padding-b-0375@tablet lrv-u-padding-b-050@mobile-max lrv-u-border-b-2\">\n<p>\t\tTrending Stories<\/p>\n<\/h2>\n<\/section>\n<p class=\"paragraph larva \/\/ lrv-u-line-height-copy  lrv-a-font-body-l   \">\n\tAs host of the CMA Awards, Wilson becomes the first woman to emcee the show solo in 34 years: The last was Reba McEntire in 1991. \u201cI looked it up too and I was like, there\u2019s no way. I let Reba know I was doing this and she was so excited,\u201d Wilson told <a href=\"https:\/\/www.rollingstone.com\/music\/music-features\/lainey-wilson-hosting-cma-awards-without-luke-bryan-1235442560\/\"><em>Rolling Stone<\/em>\u2019s <em>Nashville Now<\/em> podcast<\/a>. \u201cIt\u2019s been a long time since a woman has done it solo. I\u2019m glad they trust me. I like to run my mouth and I love country music.\u201d<\/p>\n<p class=\"paragraph larva \/\/ lrv-u-line-height-copy  lrv-a-font-body-l   \">\n\tWilson, Moroney, and Langley are all tied with the <a href=\"https:\/\/www.rollingstone.com\/music\/music-country\/country-awards-2025-nominees-list-1235423147\/\">most nominations<\/a> \u2014\u00a0six each \u2014 at this year\u2019s 59th CMA Awards. The show airs live from Nashville on Wednesday, Nov. 19, at 8 p.m. ET on ABC and streams the following day on Hulu.<\/p>\n<\/div><\/div>\n<p><br \/>\n<br \/><a href=\"https:\/\/www.rollingstone.com\/music\/music-country\/2025-cma-awards-performers-1235460548\/\">Source link <\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Stephen Wilson Jr., Megan Moroney, Ella Langley, Zach Top, and more are also slated to sing at the Nov. 19 country music awards The&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":5,"featured_media":51029,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[36],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-51028","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-pop","article","has-excerpt","has-avatar","has-author","has-date","has-comment-count","has-category-meta","has-read-more","thumbnail-"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/musicianvoice.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/51028","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/musicianvoice.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/musicianvoice.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/musicianvoice.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/5"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/musicianvoice.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=51028"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/musicianvoice.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/51028\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/musicianvoice.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/51029"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/musicianvoice.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=51028"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/musicianvoice.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=51028"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/musicianvoice.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=51028"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}