Country Radio Broadcasters (CRB) has revealed the up-and-coming country music newcomers who will be featured as part of the 2025 New Faces of Country Music showcase during next year's Country Radio Seminar, set for February 19-21 at Omni Hotel in downtown Nashville.
Announced Wednesday (December 11), the showcase will highlight Drew Baldridge (Lyric Ridge/BMG/Stony Creek), Ashley Cooke (Big Loud/Back Blocks), Dasha (Warner Records), Zach Top (Leo33) and Warren Zeiders ( Warner Records).
Earlier this year, Baldridge saw his single “She's Somebody's Daughter” reach his top 5 Bulletin boardon the Country Airplay chart, while Cooke won a breakthrough song with “Your Place” and was nominated for an Academy of Country Music Award for New Female Artist of the Year. Dasha also had a whirlwind year thanks to her hit “Austin,” which reached the top 20 on the Billboard Hot 100 and No. 3 on the Hot Country Songs chart, while Top released his debut country album Cold Beer & Country Musicspearheaded by Country Airplay's Top 20 hit “Sounds Like the Radio” and Hot Country Songs' current Top 10 hit “I Never Lie.” Finally, Zeiders earned a Country Airplay No. 1 with “Pretty Little Poison” and followed it up with his recent single “Relapse.”
For more than five decades, the New Faces of Country Music Show has been the centerpiece of the annual Country Radio Seminar, highlighting five up-and-coming artists who found success during the qualifying period (which, for the 2025 show, begins Nov. 1 , 2023, to 31 October 2024). Since its inception in 1970, the event has showcased new talent in country music, with members of the Class of 2025 joining past New Faces performers such as Tim McGraw, George Strait, Taylor Swift, Faith Hill, Keith Urban, Luke Combs, Miranda Lambert and Jelly Roll. .
Next year's New Faces of Country Music Show is co-sponsored by the Academy of Country Music and St. Mary's Children's Research Hospital. Jude.
The Country Radio Seminar's annual conference focuses on issues related to country music radio and is designed to educate and promote the exchange of ideas and business practices in the country music industry.
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