Reba McEntire is celebrating another career first. The 70-year-old had the biggest streaming debut of her career with “Trailblazer,” a song she released with Lainey Wilson and Miranda Lambert. The three debuted the song during the recent 2025 ACM Awards, which McEntire also hosted.

Wilson and Lambert penned “Trailblazer” with McEntire, inspired in part by her own legendary career.

“We were like, ‘Okay, we’re going to do a song with Reba — what kind of song do we write?” Lambert tells Billboard. “We were calling her on the set [of Happy’s Place] and trying to figure out, ‘What’s the right message for this trio? What do we really want to say in three minutes?’”

Fortunately, the three writers perfectly encapsulated McEntire, who was thrilled with the finished product.

“I remember listening to it in the dressing room. I couldn’t find a flaw in it, not a word,” McEntire recalls. “It was that great. I was very emotional when I heard it.”

McEntire might have been the muse for “Trailblazer,” but the song also references other iconic female artists, including including Dolly Parton, Loretta Lynn, Pasty Cline and Tammy Wynette.

“We were just having a conversation about how both [Lambert and McEntire] have influenced me and [about] passing the torch and blazing trails for each other,” Wilson says. “Generation after generation, it’s going to continue, but we got to keep blazing those trails for the next one.”

“We wanted to lean in pretty hard to paying tribute to each person,” Lambert adds. “We had to do it strategically, though, because we didn’t want it to be so blatant — but more like a secret thing that you would have to listen to it twice.”

McEntire not only loved the finished product of “Trailblazer,” but she also loves that she was able to sing it with Wilson and Lambert, both artists who came after her, and looked to her for inspiration.

“There’s something different totally in these generations than the earlier generations, mainly because of the social aspect,” McEntire says. “We’ve got texting, we’ve got emails, communication at our fingertips, and we didn’t have that starting out. And I like it that things are more approachable. When I was getting started, I wouldn’t have even thought about talking to Dolly when she walked by me in 1977. I was brand new. She was a huge, mega, beautiful star.

“And I don’t know if it’s confidence that’s totally different,” she adds. “But I had [my musical heroes] all up on this pedestal where you can’t touch, you can’t talk. Now, we’re more friends and it’s a family. It’s totally different, and I like it this way.”

In addition to starring in Happy’s Place, McEntire is also returning to The Voice for Season 28 this fall, for her fourth turn as a coach.

“I was really dreading it at first, because I don’t want to tell anybody they suck,” McEntire reveals on Late Night with Seth Meyer, recalling when she first joined the show, taking the place of Blake Shelton. “I passed on it years ago, when it first came over from Holland. And I said, ‘I can’t tell somebody, don’t give up your day job.’  I’m not gonna do that. But the way we did it, on the first time I was on The Voice, it was more helpful and encouraging. And everybody that’s coming back now, Snoop, Michael, myself and Niall, we’re nice people. We encourage. We lift up.”

Find “Trailblazer,” and all of McEntire’s music and upcoming shows, at Reba.com.