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Dan + Shay are once again up for CMA Vocal Duo of the Year—a category they know well. Over the course of their career, the pair has been nominated in this category a dozen times and have taken home the trophy twice. Even with their longstanding recognition, they admit the excitement never fades and each nomination still feels just as meaningful as the first.

“We’ve been doing this for so long. We’re grateful to, truly, just grateful to be involved and included in the conversation,” Shay told Country Now. “It’s been amazing over the years to be able to even be included with so many amazing artists. And the fact that we’ve been doing this since 2012 is unbelievable.”

Along with celebrating another nomination, the three-time GRAMMY-winning duo has also been navigating some big career and life changes behind the scenes. They recently reemerged on social media after a lengthy hiatus that allowed them to recharge and prepare for new music and more in 2026.

“This year has been a bit of a change for us. We took a year off the road to reset. It was necessary after 10 years of doing the thing, and we just wanted to spend more time writing. Shay’s got a new baby at home…We’ve been locked in the studio. We didn’t post on social media. People were like, ‘oh my gosh, did they break up?’ We just literally forgot to post on social media,” Dan explained.

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Now, they’ve revealed that while they weren’t active online, they were still hard at work behind the scenes. One highlight that came from this time away from the screens was their brand-new holiday tune, “Long Live Christmas.”

“I feel like we’ve been on such a good stretch of creativity with writing and that’s how these Christmas songs came about. We were just in the studio nonstop, hanging, enjoying being home. We hadn’t taken a break from the road since 2013, so it was…it felt good,” they added. “It was our first kind of real break, even though it wasn’t a break. We were in the studio. But no, it’s been really good.”

They also recently dropped a highly-requested cover of Taylor Swift’s “Back To December,” and joked that if Taylor or her fiancé Travis Kelce ever called about performing at their upcoming wedding, they’d clear their schedules instantly.

“We can put it out in the world. We are open for business. We will do it for free…Even if we’re not open, we’ll just clear whatever we’re doing. We’ll be free, I’ll tell you that.”

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Looking ahead to 2026, Dan and Shay are fired up about more music and more shows. In the midst of all the excitement, they are also hoping to take more time to appreciate all the special moments coming their way.

“Life goes fast. Those 10 years went by really, really fast. And just looking around and being like, this moment’s amazing. Just trying to enjoy every step of it.”

The duo is set to appear at this year’s CMA Awards in Nashville on Wednesday, November 17. While the country stars tend to spend a lot of time together, they are looking forward to sharing the celebration of this coveted evening with their wives by their sides for what’s poised to be a memorable date night.

“Our wive are coming with us. It’s going to be awesome. We’re fired up. It’s just awesome to get out on the town like that,” they noted.

Dan and Shay are nominated for vocal group of the year alongside Brooks & Dunn, Brothers Osborne,  Maddie & Tae, andThe War And Treaty.

Hosted by Lainey Wilson, the 59^th CMA Awards will broadcast live from Bridgestone Arena on Wednesday, Nov. 19 (8:00-11:00 PM/ET) on ABC and is available next day on Hulu.

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Ella Langley is preparing to take the stage at the upcoming CMA Awards to perform her latest single, “Choosin’ Texas.” Ahead of the highly-anticipated event, she hinted at what fans can expect from her time on stage.

The songstress has built a reputation for showcasing her powerful music through high-energy performances that put her signature country sound on full display. While speaking with Country Now backstage of the CMA Awards, she revealed that this special performance will be no different.

While she kept most of the details under wraps, she promised it would be “country” through and through.

“It’s true to the song. I mean, it’s two stepping. Country boys, I love ‘em,” she teased.

The highly anticipated track, co-written by Langley alongside Miranda Lambert, Luke Dick, and Joybeth Taylor, finds the award-winning artist exploring the bittersweet moment she discovers her love interest has fallen for her and Tennessee, only to realize his heart actually still belongs to Texas and someone else.

Fans are likely very eager to see the track come to life live at the CMA Awards, as it’s expected to capture all the emotion and storytelling of the song that has been stirring up so much buzz already.

When asked what she put in the song to make listeners fall in love with it so fast, she joked, “that’s a special sauce I can’t tell everybody about.”

This is slated to be a major night for Ella Langley. Along with her performance, she’s heading into the event tied as the most nominated alongside Megan Moroney and Lainey Wilson, each racking up six nods this year. Langley is up for an award in the categories of Single of the Year (“you look like you love me”), Song of the Year (“you look like you love me”), Female Vocalist of the Year, Musical Event of the Year (“Don’t Mind If I Do”), Music Video of the Year (“you look like you love me”), and New Artist of the Year.

Reflecting on this accomplishment, she noted that it’s truly “nuts” to think about the fact that she’s come this far in her career and is now getting to see her years of hard work and dedication be recognized in front of her peers.

“People will keep asking me this question and it’s just like, yeah, I think at some point this job, so many cool things happen to you in a row and you’re just on a cloud nine type of thing. So usually, stuff like that sinks in a couple days after it happens.”

This performance will follow Ella Langley’s sold-out, two-night run at Nashville’s iconic Ryman Auditorium to wrap up her Still Hungover Tour. Both nights were packed with star-studded surprise guests including ERNEST, Jo Dee Messina, Gretchen Wilson, HARDY, Morgan Wallen and more.

“Jo Dee Messina and Gretchen Wilson both have texted me before and said just the most encouraging things and we’ve done ‘Here For The Party’ for forever so I knew I wanted to see if Gretchen could do it. And then Jo Dee Messina is, I did this cover of ‘A Lesson In Leavin’ just randomly and I see it all the time. So I was like, that would be so sick. And she ended up texting me saying, ‘congrats on the Ryman.’ I’m like, ‘well, do you want to come and sing?’”

“I don’t think he gets to go out and see shows very often,” Langley said of Wallen. “And then I was like, you want to do ‘Cover Me Up’?”

This epic Ryman show marked the end of one chapter and the beginning of another. “Choosin’ Texas” set the tone for the next era which Langley described as being “fun,” “groovy” and “more mature.”

“It’s womanly, sexy. It’s windows down,” she shared. “My point for this whole record is when I listen to music, even though I’m a songwriter and I love to write songs, I really listened to the music first. And so a lot of these songs, I really wanted to be able to turn it down and still kind of vibe on the record. And when you’re in the car and you’re talking to your friends, one of those records just put on. But it’s also, if you do love lyrics and you get to learn a lot about me as an artist and as a human being and kind of what got me here.”

The Alabama native will appear on the CMA Awards this Wednesday when the show broadcasts live from Nashville’s Bridgestone Arena. Fans can tune into the event hosted by Lainey Wilson on at 8:00-11:00 PM/ET on ABC. It will also be available next day on Hulu.

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