The nominations are out for the 2025 Stellar Gospel Music Awards with Jason Nelson, Pastor Mike Jr., and CeCe Winans leading the competition.
Pastor Mike and Jason Nelson picked up a leading nine nods each, including Artist of the Year, Song of the Year, Male Artist of the Year and Album of the Year for Nelson’s You Belong: Live in Durham and Mike Jr.’s I Got Away – EP.
They are followed by Winans with eight nominations, including Artist of the Year, Song of the Year, Albertina Walker Female Artist of the Year, and Album of the Year for More Than This.
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Other artists picking up multiple nominations include the Mississippi Mass Choir, Adia, Deitrick Haddon, Dorinda Clark-Cole, Karen Clark-Sheard, Kenny Lewis & One Voice, Micah Lee, Tamela Mann, Chandler Moore and FK&M (Fred Hammond, Keith Staten, and Marcus Cole).
Central City Productions announced the nominations this week in a press release and said the ceremony will be taped live at the Schermerhorn Symphony Center in Nashville on Saturday, Aug. 16, 2025.
Stellar Awards founder and Central City Productions Chairman Don Jackson commented, “For 40 remarkable years, the Stellar Awards have been a beacon of excellence, celebrating the voices, vision, and victories of gospel music. We honor not just the genre of gospel music, but the legacy of our history, our faith, our culture, and our community that has inspired Black & African American generations for four decades with our Stellar Gospel Music Awards.”
Tickets to the ceremony are available at stellarawards.com. Fans can vote in two categories this year — Urban Single or Performance of the Year and Praise and Worship Song of the Year.
Air dates for the show will be announced later.
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