The 2025 Academy of Country Music Awards will air live tonight (May 8). The event will see some of the biggest names in country music take the stage to perform and accept hard-won awards. However, the festivities start well before the show. To get a preview of what the genre’s biggest stars will be wearing during the award show and get some exclusive behind-the-scenes info, tune in for the ACM red carpet.
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Like the ACM Awards, the red carpet show will broadcast live from the Ford Center in Frisco, Texas. The fashion-forward pre-show kicks off at 7 PM Eastern Time, an hour before the main event. It will air live on Amazon Prime Video. You can also stream it on YouTube below.
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The 2025 ACM Awards will kick off at 8 PM Eastern and will give viewers two options to stream. The main event will stream on Amazon Prime Video and the Amazon Music Twitch channel. The awards show is free to watch and viewers don’t need an active Amazon Prime account to tune in.
2025 ACM Awards Performers
Those who watch the pre-show will get to see some of the genre’s biggest names walk the red carpet before they take the stage to deliver country music to a worldwide audience. See a full list of performers below.
- Sugarland
- Reba McEntire
- Wynonna Judd
- Clint Black
- Dan + Shay
- LeAnn Rimes
- Blake Shelton
- Brothers Osborne
- Chris Stapleton
- Ella Langley
- Eric Church
- Kelsea Ballerini
- Lainey Wilson
- Megan Moroney
- Zach Top
- Miranda Lambert
- Alan Jackson
- Rascal Flatts with Backstreet Boys
- Brooks & Dunn with Cody Johnson
- Jelly Roll and Shaboozey
The show will open with a 12-minute medley of songs that won Song of the Year, performed by the artists who made them famous. That performance will feature Clint Black, Reba McEntire, Wynonna Judd, Sugarland, LeAnn Rimes, and Dan + Shay.
The Backstreet Boys, while a nostalgic boy band, may seem like an odd choice for a country music awards show. However, they recently shared the stage with Luke Combs during this year’s Stagecoach Festival. Their appearance on the ACM Awards may be a sign that they’re the next pop act looking to enter the genre.
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