61st Annual ACM Awards: Nominations, Performers, and How to Watch
The 61st annual Academy of Country Music Awards are set to take place on Sunday night, with Shania Twain hosting the event for the first time. The awards ceremony will be held at the MGM Grand Garden Arena in Las Vegas. Leading up to the main event, several awards were already given out, including songwriter of the year to Jessie Jo Dillon and visual media of the year to Stephen Wilson Jr. New female and male artists of the year were also recognized.
To watch the ACM Awards, you can stream them on Prime Video, the Amazon Music channel on Twitch, and the Amazon Music app on May 17 at 8 p.m. EDT. This year's nominations are dominated by women, with Megan Moroney leading the pack with nine nods. Miranda Lambert, Ella Langley, and Lainey Wilson follow closely behind with multiple nominations each. The entertainer of the year category includes Moroney, Wilson, Chris Stapleton, Cody Johnson, Luke Combs, Jelly Roll, and Morgan Wallen.
The lineup of performers at the ACM Awards is impressive, featuring artists like Lambert, Langley, Top, Wilson, Johnson, Green, Faith, Anna, Wetmore, McCollum, Musgraves, Little Big Town, Shelton, Dan + Shay, Davis, Brown, The Red Clay Strays, Rhett, and Womack. Some of the presenters at the event include Ashley McBryde, Keith Urban, Lauren Alaina, Michael Bublé, Shaboozey, The War and Treaty, TJ Osborne, as well as non-musician presenters like Andrew Whitworth, Carl Edwards, Corey LaJoie, and Ryan Fitzpatrick.