The ACM Awards have introduced the primary spherical of performers set for the Might 17 present, with Lainey Wilson, Cody Johnson and Riley Green main the preliminary cost.
All three performers are on a sizzling streak, chart-wise and/or awards-wise. Wilson is the ACMs’ reigning entertainer of the 12 months, and he or she shall be bringing the present the dwell premiere of her new single, “Can’t Sit Nonetheless,” which is included in her forthcoming Netflix documentary. Johnson received tune of the 12 months on the ACMs final 12 months and can sing a thus-far undisclosed quantity. Inexperienced will carry out his hit “Change My Thoughts.”
(The Academy of Nation Music additionally has Inexperienced on faucet to headline an affiliated charity occasion, the 2026 ACM Lifting Lives Nation on the Inexperienced profit, being held at Topgolf Las Vegas Might 15.)
As soon as once more, the Academy of Nation Music’s awards shall be seen solely on Prime Video, with a change this 12 months from the earlier Texas base for the webcast to a return to the ACMs’ outdated dwelling in Las Vegas. The present will air dwell from the MGM Grand Backyard Area at 8 p.m. ET/5 PT on Might 17.
A number, nominees, presenters and different particulars in regards to the present have but to be unveiled.
The Academy additionally introduced that Patrick Menton has been upped to the position of govt producer of the ACMs; he beforehand serverd as expertise producer from 2018-2019, co-producer from 2020-2022, and co-executive producer within the years 2023-2025). He’ll companion as govt producer with longtime showrunner Raj Kapoor.
The present is produced by Dick Clark Productions. Different producers on board in addition to Menton and Kapoor are Damon Whiteside as govt producer for the Academy of Nation Music; Jay Penske and Barry Adelman as govt producers for DCP; and John Saade as consulting producer for Amazon MGM Studios.
Whiteside broke the information on March 3 that he’ll step down as head of the Academy of Country Music in June, saying on the time that he was keen to remain on lengthy sufficient to see this 12 months’s awards program via.
