Watch Lainey Wilson Gear Up to Host the 2025 CMA Awards: ‘Looks Like I’m Running the Show!’

The CMA Awards are little than a period away, and Lainey Wilson is getting ready.

After cohosting past twelvemonth with Luke Bryan and Peyton Manning, the nine-time CMA Awards victor volition beryllium the sole big for the 59th yearly CMA Awards, slated for Nov. 19 connected ABC.

In a clip exclusive to Billboard — which you tin ticker supra — Wilson shows however she’s getting acceptable for the awards, declaring, “All right! Looks similar I’m moving the show!” She past reveals however she’s putting her ain rotation connected the proceedings, from supersizing the speakers to making definite her wardrobe is connected point.

Wilson is lone the 3rd pistillate to solo big the awards — which bills itself arsenic “Country Music’s Biggest Night” — following Dolly Parton successful 1988 and Reba McEntire successful 1991.

She is not lone the host, but she is 1 of the starring nominees, tying with Ella Langley and Megan Moroney with six nominations each. Zach Top follows with 5 nominations, and Riley Green and Cody Johnson person 4 each. Performers and presenters volition beryllium announced shortly.

“I grew up watching the CMA Awards similar it was the Super Bowl, truthful to beryllium hosting for a 2nd twelvemonth is simply a existent honor,” Wilson said successful a connection successful September. “I’m humbled that CMA has trusted maine with this role, and I can’t hold to emotion connected this genre that has fixed maine truthful much.”

CMA Awards nominees and winners are determined by much than 7,000 nonrecreational voting members of the Country Music Association, representing each assemblage of the industry.

The CMA Awards, which volition aerial connected unrecorded from Nashville’s Bridgestone Arena, are the longest moving yearly euphony awards amusement connected web television, having archetypal aired successful 1967. Robert Deaton serves arsenic enforcement producers.