We now know who some of the performers will be for the upcoming 2025 ACM Awards. Alan Jackson and Cody Johnson have been announced as performers, along with several of country music’s biggest stars. In honor of the 60th anniversary of the ACM Awards, artists from the past several decades will take the stage, including Lainey Wilson, Eric Church, Blake Shelton, Brooks & Dunn, Chris Stapleton, Clint Black, Kelsea Ballerini, LeAnn Rimes, Miranda Lambert, Rascal Flatts and Wynonna Judd.
Reba McEntire will return to host the 2025 ACM Awards, for the second year in a row. The 2025 ACM Awards will mark McEntire’s 19th time hosting the live show. And like previous years, McEntire will give the show the best she can.
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“Oh, I hate to telephone it in,” she tells Variety. “I hate to coast through it. It’s preparation. If you’re very prepared, you don’t get nervous, you don’t get anxious. It’s when you don’t know what you’re gonna do is when the nerves start happening. We’ve already been working on all the costumes, the monologue, the script, and so the more we can do that, the more prepared we are. And then when you get there, the night of the show is just going to be fun, and let it rip.”
Ella Langley leads the list of nominees with eight nominations, followed by Johnson, Morgan Wallen and Wilson, with seven nods each. Although it may seem that Wilson is jealous of Langley getting more nominations, no one is prouder of the “Weren’t For the Wind” singer than Wilson.
“I could not be more thrilled,” Wilson shares with Everything Nash and other outlets, at a recent media event. “I could not be more excited to see it happening to a girl that just knows who she is. She shows up, and she rolls her sleeves up, and she is ready to kick down barn doors. You gotta have that spirit in this business. If you don’t have that spirit, there’s somebody behind you that’s going to have that spirt, and they’re going to knock down that barn door for you. So, she’s one of those.
“I would not be surprised if she comes in there with her broom and starts sweeping it up,” she adds. “And I’d be behind her with a dustpan … I was like, ‘Let’s go.’ I’m glad to see the community really taking notice in somebody who’s just got it. That’s a good feeling, especially as a female in the business. It’s good to see.”
See a complete list of nominees here.
The 2025 ACM Awards will air live on Prime Video from Ford Center at The Star in Frisco, Texas on Thursday, May 8 at 8:00 PM ET. A very limited number of tickets are still available at SeatGeek. More information is available at ACMCountry.com.