If contemporary country music still has a woman problem — and many observers would strongly avow that it does — you wouldn’t know it from the nominations for the 2025 CMA Awards. The Country Music Association announced this year’s nominees Monday morning, and at the front of the crop were the bold young stars Lainey Wilson, Ella Langley and Megan Moroney, tied with six nominations apiece.
Close behind was the fast-rising star Zach Top, who landed five nods from the CMAs’ voters. The country traditionalist has quickly achieved a high level of success in the genre despite only putting out his second major-label album at the end of August,
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