Lineup Announced For 2025 CRS New Faces Show

The Country Radio Broadcasters have unveiled the lineup for the New Faces of Country Music Show at CRS 2025. Next year’s class includes Drew Baldridge (Lyric Ridge/BMG/Stoney Creek), Ashley Cooke (Big Loud/Back Blocks), Dasha (Warner Records), Zach Top (Leo33) and Warren Zeiders (Warner Records).

For over five decades, the New Faces of Country Music Show has served as a platform to showcase five emerging artists who have achieved notable success on country radio during the qualification period. The period for this class spanned from Nov. 1, 2023 to Oct. 31, 2024.

Co-partnered by the Academy of Country Music and St. Jude Children’s Research Hospital, the New Faces of Country Music Show will take place during CRS 2025, to be held from Feb. 19 to Feb. 21, 2025.

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