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Snubs & Surprises at the 2025 ACM Awards

Here’s a look at some of the snubs and surprises on the 2025 ACM Awards.

Country traditionalist Zach Top took the award for new male artist of the year, beating Shaboozey, whose “A Bar Song (Tipsy)” had spent 19 weeks at No. Who expected Morgan Wallen, Post Malone and Kelsea Ballerini to be completely shut out, despite going into the show with a total of 16 nominations between them? Post Malone, Wallen’s duet partner on the megahit “I Had Some Help,” went 0-for-5, the second biggest shutout of the night.

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