Jason Aldean
Rock-heavy country radio staple — big guitars, small towns, and one of the format's most reliable arena draws.
CMA Fest 2026 Lineup
CMA Fest 2026 has already wrapped — but you can still dig through the lineup and find the acts you would have loved.
Country music's four-night Nashville homecoming — the Nissan Stadium bill stacked with Tim McGraw, Keith Urban, Luke Bryan and the format's whole current bench.
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CMA Fest full lineup
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Keith Urban
Country's resident guitar hero — a Nashville A-lister by way of Australia who plays like a rock headliner with a Telecaster.
Luke Bryan
Georgia's stadium-country showman — spring-break energy, farm-tour roots and a decade of number ones.
Tim McGraw
Three decades of country superstardom — 'Live Like You Were Dying' and a catalog that soundtracked half the format's modern history.
Blake Shelton
Oklahoma's TV-famous country everyman — 'God's Country' grit under a talk-show grin, with twenty years of radio hits behind it.
Cody Johnson
Texas rodeo-cowboy-turned-arena-headliner — neotraditional country sung like every night is the last night of the season.
Ella Langley
Alabama sass with outlaw leanings — 'you look like you love me' turned a duet into a career.
HARDY
Nashville's heaviest hitmaker — a hit songwriter for others who saves the loudest, most metallic material for himself.
Lainey Wilson
Bell-bottoms, Louisiana drawl and a run of CMA hardware — the hardest-working woman in mainstream country right now, with the catalog to back the swagger.
Riley Green
Small-town Alabama traditionalist — hunting-camp country with a college-quarterback charm.
Shaboozey
'A Bar Song (Tipsy)' made him the crossover story of the decade — country hooks over hip-hop bones.
Zach Top
The 90s-country revival in one pompadour — pure Keith Whitley-school neotraditionalism that made retro the hottest sound in Nashville.
Bailey Zimmerman
Carly Pearce
Clay Walker
90s Texas neotraditionalist with a stack of chart-toppers and a honky-tonk tenor that hasn't aged.
Deana Carter
Gretchen Wilson
'Redneck Woman' incarnate — mid-2000s country's loudest, proudest barroom voice.
Jo Dee Messina
Jordan Davis
Rhett Akins
Russell Dickerson
Feel-good pop-country with a preacher's-kid energy — wedding-playlist hits delivered like a headline set.
Sara Evans
Stephen Wilson Jr.
Former boxer and biochemist turned country songwriter — grunge-shaded Americana about grief and Indiana, delivered with a scientist's precision and a fighter's heart.
The Band Perry
The Red Clay Strays
Gulf Coast southern rock with a frontman who sounds like he learned to sing in a revival tent — 'Wondering Why' the slow-burn breakout.
