Country Radio Broadcasters (CRB) has revealed the rising country music newcomers to be featured as part of the 2025 New Faces of Country Music showcase during next year’s Country Radio Seminar, slated for Feb. 19-21 at the Omni Hotel in downtown Nashville.
Announced Wednesday (Dec. 11), the showcase will highlight Drew Baldridge (Lyric Ridge/BMG/Stoney 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 the top 5 on Billboard‘s Country Airplay chart, while Cooke earned 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 Music, spearheaded by the Country Airplay top 20 hit “Sounds Like the Radio” and his current Hot Country Songs top 10 “I Never Lie.” Lastly, Zeiders earned a Country Airplay No. 1 with “Pretty Little Poison” and followed that with his recent single “Relapse.”
For more than five decades, the New Faces of Country Music Show has been a centerpiece of the annual Country Radio Seminar, highlighting five rising artists who have earned success during the qualification period (which, for the 2025 show, runs from Nov. 1, 2023, to Oct. 31, 2024). Since its launch in 1970, the event has showcased new country music talent, with members of the 2025 class joining past New Faces performers including 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. Jude Children’s Research Hospital.
The annual Country Radio Seminar convention focuses on issues relevant to country music radio and is designed to educate and promote the exchange of ideas and business practices within the country music industry.
