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Lainey Wilson rules the 2025 Academy of Country Music Awards once again
From Lainey Wilson to Alan Jackson's tribute, the ACM Awards celebrated country music's past and present
Megan Moroney covered Keith Urban's “Stupid Boy” and Stapleton did “Blue Ain't Your Color” ahead of the Australian superstar's reception of the coveted ACM Triple Crown Award, marking the first time an artist has received the trophy on stage since Carrie Underwood was honored in 2010. Earlier, first-time and leading nominee Ella Langley's duet with Riley Green, the ubiquitous “You Look Like You Love Me,” was named single and music event of the year.Both Langley and Green used their first acceptance speech to shout out classic country — songs with talking in them — that inspired their modern hit.A revisitation of the past might have been a theme Thursday night, evidenced right at the top of the ceremony: a 14-minute medley of six decades of country 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." It was a moving gesture; in 2024 the Oak Ridge Boys' Joe Bonsall, a Grammy award winner and celebrated tenor, died from complications of the neuromuscular disorder Amyotrophic Lateral Sclerosis.Another tearjerker: McEntire leading the audience in a sing-along of the late Kris Kristofferson's “Me and Bobby McGee.”Male artist of the year went to Stapleton.
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