Rock-heavy country radio staple — big guitars, small towns, and one of the format's most reliable arena draws.
CMA Fest 2026 Lineup
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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About CMA Fest 2026
CMA Fest is country music's annual Nashville homecoming: four June nights at Nissan Stadium stacked with the format's biggest names, on top of free daytime stages running across downtown. The 2026 stadium bill put Tim McGraw, Keith Urban, Luke Bryan and Jason Aldean up top, with Blake Shelton, Cody Johnson and Lainey Wilson directly behind them.
The spread underneath was the interesting part: the '90s showed up in force (Clay Walker, Deana Carter, Jo Dee Messina, Sara Evans and Gretchen Wilson) against the new class of Zach Top, Ella Langley, Shaboozey and Tucker Wetmore, plus outliers like grunge-shaded songwriter Stephen Wilson Jr. Twenty-six stadium acts in all.
Expect country, country-rock, rock and hip-hop across 26 acts.
CMA Fest 2026 lineup: all 26 acts
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Country's resident guitar hero — a Nashville A-lister by way of Australia who plays like a rock headliner with a Telecaster.
Georgia's stadium-country showman — spring-break energy, farm-tour roots and a decade of number ones.
Three decades of country superstardom — 'Live Like You Were Dying' and a catalog that soundtracked half the format's modern history.
Oklahoma's TV-famous country everyman — 'God's Country' grit under a talk-show grin, with twenty years of radio hits behind it.
Texas rodeo-cowboy-turned-arena-headliner — neotraditional country sung like every night is the last night of the season.
Alabama sass with outlaw leanings — 'you look like you love me' turned a duet into a career.
Nashville's heaviest hitmaker — a hit songwriter for others who saves the loudest, most metallic material for himself.
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.
Small-town Alabama traditionalist — hunting-camp country with a college-quarterback charm.
'A Bar Song (Tipsy)' made him the crossover story of the decade — country hooks over hip-hop bones.
The 90s-country revival in one pompadour — pure Keith Whitley-school neotraditionalism that made retro the hottest sound in Nashville.
Illinois-raised country singer who broke through on TikTok before radio caught up — big, raw-throated heartbreak songs built for stadium singalongs.
Traditional-leaning country with a '90s heart — heartbreak records written with a razor.
90s Texas neotraditionalist with a stack of chart-toppers and a honky-tonk tenor that hasn't aged.
'Strawberry Wine' — a 1996 debut that sold five million copies and still stops a field cold.
'Redneck Woman' incarnate — mid-2000s country's loudest, proudest barroom voice.
Massachusetts-raised country singer behind a run of late-nineties radio staples — 'Bye, Bye' and 'Heads Carolina, Tails California' sung with unfussy force.
Louisiana-born, beard-and-baritone Nashville songwriter whose easygoing hits — 'Singles You Up,' 'Buy Dirt' — hide a serious craftsman's touch.
Georgia singer who charted in the mid-'90s with "That Ain't My Truck" and then became one of Nashville's most-cut songwriters — a hit factory in his own right.
Feel-good pop-country with a preacher's-kid energy — wedding-playlist hits delivered like a headline set.
Missouri-raised country singer who turned a late-'90s breakthrough into a long run of radio staples — 'Born to Fly,' 'Suds in the Bucket,' 'A Little Bit Stronger.'
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 sibling trio behind "If I Die Young" — harmony-forward country pop with a gothic streak.
Gulf Coast southern rock with a frontman who sounds like he learned to sing in a revival tent — 'Wondering Why' the slow-burn breakout.
Washington-state football player turned country hitmaker — 'Wine Into Whiskey' and a run of streaming smashes behind it.
The headliners
Tim McGraw — Three decades of country superstardom — 'Live Like You Were Dying' and a catalog that soundtracked half the format's modern history.
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.
Jason Aldean — Rock-heavy country radio staple — big guitars, small towns, and one of the format's most reliable arena draws.
Up-and-comers to catch early
Ella Langley — Alabama's newest star, playing the format's biggest stage barely two years into a career.
Tucker Wetmore — The 'Wind Up Missin' You' breakout, a Washington-state kid writing straight down the middle of country radio.
Stephen Wilson Jr. — The most distinctive new writer on the bill: grunge dynamics in a country song, and it lands.Zach Top — The retro movement's flag-bearer proving the '90s revival is a career, not a costume.
Other acts worth planning around
Shaboozey — The crossover story of the decade, playing country's flagship stadium.
The Red Clay Strays — A revival-tent live show that has long since outgrown club billing.
Carly Pearce — The truest '90s-country heart among the current hitmakers.
Deana Carter — 'Strawberry Wine' in a stadium: nostalgia done exactly right.Gretchen Wilson — Still the loudest, proudest barroom voice of her country generation.
CMA Fest 2026 lineup FAQ
Who headlined CMA Fest 2026?
Tim McGraw, Keith Urban, Luke Bryan and Jason Aldean topped the nightly Nissan Stadium bills, with Blake Shelton, Cody Johnson, Lainey Wilson, HARDY and Shaboozey among the top billing.
When was CMA Fest 2026?
June 4–7, 2026, Thursday through Sunday in Nashville.
Where does CMA Fest take place?
The nightly headline shows run at Nissan Stadium; free stages run across downtown Nashville during the day, all four days.
Is CMA Fest only the stadium shows?
No. The ticketed stadium concerts are the centerpiece, but CMA Fest fills downtown Nashville with free daytime stages. The lineup tracked here is the 26-act stadium bill.
How many acts played the CMA Fest 2026 stadium shows?
26 acts across the four nights at Nissan Stadium.
How do I find the acts I'd have liked?
Type a few artists you love into the finder at the top of this page. It matches them against this lineup and explains each pick.
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