Blake Shelton, Kane Brown, Zach Top and more have been added to the May 17 awards show in Las Vegas<\/p>\n
\n\tBlake Shelton<\/a>, Carter Faith<\/a>, Ella Langley<\/a>, and the Red Clay Strays<\/a> have all joined the lineup of performers for this year\u2019s Academy of Country Music Awards<\/a>. The ceremony will take place at Las Vegas\u2019 MGM Grand Garden Arena and stream live on Prime Video beginning at 8 p.m. ET on May 17.<\/p>\n \n\tOther new additions to the performance lineup include Dan + Shay, Jordan Davis, Kane Brown, Thomas Rhett, and Zach Top. The show\u2019s producers have also announced that Avery Anna and Tucker Wetmore are the 2026 ACM Award Artists of the Year recipients<\/a>. Previously announced performers<\/a> include Cody Johnson, Lainey Wilson, Riley Green, Kacey Musgraves, Little Big Town, and Miranda Lambert.<\/p>\n \n\tThe host for this year\u2019s awards ceremony will be Shania Twain. It\u2019s her first time hosting the ACMs, but she has practice, having previously emceed the People\u2019s Choice Country Awards in 2024. Tickets for 2026 Academy of Country Music Awards are available now via\u00a0AXS<\/a>.<\/p>\n \t\tTrending Stories<\/p>\n \n\tIn the days ahead of the ceremony, ACM Awards<\/a> producers have booked\u00a0multiple events<\/a>\u00a0in Las Vegas to mark the event. One called ACM Lifting Lives Country on the Green: Riley Green & Friends will feature Lauren Alaina, Randy Houser, and Rodney Atkins playing alongside Green at Topgolf Las Vegas on May 15. Another, ACM Next Wave: Country\u2019s Beach Bash, will feature Ashley Cooke, Braxton Keith, Dasha, Flatland Cavalry, Tucker Wetmore, and others performing at Mandalay Bay Beach on May 16.<\/p>\n \n\tThe ACM Awards are produced by Dick Clark Productions, which is owned by Penske Media Corp., the parent company of\u00a0Rolling Stone.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Blake Shelton, Kane Brown, Zach Top and more have been added to the May 17 awards show in…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":643043,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[28],"tags":[291128,20364,64,63,52931,199078,89857,134,136,311304],"class_list":["post-643042","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-music","tag-academy-of-country-music-awards","tag-acm-awards","tag-au","tag-australia","tag-blake-shelton","tag-carter-faith","tag-ella-langley","tag-entertainment","tag-music","tag-red-clay-strays"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/643042","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=643042"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/643042\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/643043"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=643042"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=643042"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=643042"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}