{"id":658009,"date":"2026-05-08T15:52:09","date_gmt":"2026-05-08T15:52:09","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/658009\/"},"modified":"2026-05-08T15:52:09","modified_gmt":"2026-05-08T15:52:09","slug":"full-list-of-performers-for-2026-acm-awards","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/658009\/","title":{"rendered":"Full List of Performers for 2026 ACM Awards"},"content":{"rendered":"

\n\tThe 61st annual Academy of Country Music Awards will feature 19 performers, including four of the five nominees for album of the year \u2013 Carter Faith<\/a>, Parker McCollum<\/a>, Riley Green<\/a> and Zach Top<\/a>. Of this year\u2019s album of the year nominees, only Morgan Wallen is not scheduled to perform.<\/p>\n

\n\tMcCollum and Lee Ann Womack<\/a> were the last two performers added to the line-up for the show, which is set to stream live on Sunday, May 17 from the MGM Grand Garden Arena in Las Vegas, Nevada. The two Texas natives will team to perform \u201cKillin\u2019 Me,\u201d a song from McCollum\u2019s eponymous album, which is nominated for album of the year.<\/p>\n

\n\tMost of the year\u2019s top nominees will perform on the show. Three of the four artists with the most total nominations \u2013 Miranda Lambert<\/a>, Ella Langley<\/a> and Lainey Wilson<\/a> \u2013 are set to perform. Of the nomination leaders, only Megan Moroney is not scheduled to perform.<\/p>\n

\n\tLikewise, three of the year\u2019s four most-nominated male artists \u2013 Top, Green and Cody Johnson<\/a> \u2013 are set to perform. Of the most-nominated male artists, only Chris Stapleton is not scheduled to perform.<\/p>\n

\n\tTwo groups \u2013 The Red Clay Strays<\/a> and Little Big Town<\/a> \u2013 are set to perform, as is one duo, Dan + Shay<\/a>. The other 16 performers are solo acts, including Tucker Wetmore<\/a> and Avery Anna<\/a>, this year\u2019s already-announced winners of new male artist of the year and new female artist of the year, respectively. This continues an ACM tradition where the winners of the new artist awards are invited to perform on the telecast.<\/p>\n

\n\tShania Twain<\/a> is set to host this year\u2019s show. This will be the second year in a row that both the host and the year\u2019s top nominee are women. Moroney is this year\u2019s top nominee (with nine nods). Last year, when Reba McEntire hosted, Langley was the top nominee (with eight nods).<\/p>\n

\n\tKacey Musgraves<\/a>, who won album of the year in 2019 with Golden Hour, will perform on the ACM Awards for the first time. This will also be the first first ACM Awards performance for both Faith and The Red Clay Strays. (The latter act won new duo\/group of the year last year. That category was shelved this year because there weren\u2019t enough eligible entries.)<\/p>\n

\n\tBlake Shelton<\/a>, who co-hosted the ACM Awards five years running, from 2011-15, will also perform.<\/p>\n

\n\tThe 61st ACM Awards will stream live globally on Prime Video on Sunday, May 17 at 8 p.m. ET \/ 7 p.m. CT \/ 5 p.m. PT. Fans will also be able to watch the broadcast on the Amazon Music channel on Twitch, as well as in the Amazon Music app.<\/p>\n

\n\tEstablished in 1966, the Academy of Country Music Awards is the longest-running country music awards show. It made history in 2022 as the first major awards ceremony to exclusively livestream, in collaboration with Prime Video.<\/p>\n

\n\tRaj Kapoor and Patrick Menton are executive producers of the 61st annual ACM Awards, with Kapoor also serving as showrunner. Damon Whiteside serves as executive producer for the Academy of Country Music. Jay Penske and Barry Adelman serve as executive producers for DCP. John Saade will also continue to serve as consulting producer for Amazon MGM Studios.<\/p>\n

\n\tTickets for the 61st ACM Awards and ACM Awards week events are available for purchase on AXS.com.<\/p>\n

\n\tHere\u2019s the full list of performers on this year\u2019s ACM Awards, followed by a list of this year\u2019s nominees in numerical order. The full list of presenters will be added to this post as soon as it becomes available.<\/p>\n

\n\tThe ACM Awards are produced by Dick Clark Productions, which is owned by Penske Media Eldridge, a joint venture between Eldridge Industries and Billboard parent company Penske Media.<\/p>\n

\tPerformers<\/p>\n

\n\tAvery Anna<\/p>\n

\n\tBlake Shelton<\/p>\n

\n\tCarter Faith<\/p>\n

\n\tCody Johnson<\/p>\n

\n\tDan + Shay<\/p>\n

\n\tElla Langley<\/p>\n

\n\tJordan Davis<\/p>\n

\n\tKacey Musgraves<\/p>\n

\n\tKane Brown<\/p>\n

\n\tLainey Wilson<\/p>\n

\n\tLee Ann Womack<\/p>\n

\n\tLittle Big Town<\/p>\n

\n\tMiranda Lambert<\/p>\n

\n\tParker McCollum\u00a0<\/p>\n

\n\tRiley Green<\/p>\n

\n\tThe Red Clay Strays<\/p>\n

\n\tThomas Rhett<\/p>\n

\n\tTucker Wetmore<\/p>\n

\n\tZach Top<\/p>\n

\tNominees In Numerical Order<\/p>\n

\n\tMegan Moroney (9)<\/p>\n

\n\tMiranda Lambert (8)<\/p>\n

\n\tElla Langley (7)<\/p>\n

\n\tLainey Wilson (7)<\/p>\n

\n\tChris Stapleton (6)<\/p>\n

\n\tZach Top (5)<\/p>\n

\n\tRiley Green (4)<\/p>\n

\n\tCody Johnson (4)<\/p>\n

\n\tLuke Combs (3)<\/p>\n

\n\tMorgan Wallen (3)<\/p>\n

\n\tJelly Roll (2)<\/p>\n

\n\tReba McEntire (2)<\/p>\n

\n\tShaboozey (2)<\/p>\n

\n\t49 Winchester (1)<\/p>\n

\n\tGavin Adcock (1)<\/p>\n

\n\tAvery Anna (1)<\/p>\n

\n\tKelsea Ballerini (1)<\/p>\n

\n\tBrooks & Dunn (1)<\/p>\n

\n\tBrothers Osborne (1)<\/p>\n

\n\tMackenzie Carpenter (1)<\/p>\n

\n\tKenny Chesney (1)<\/p>\n

\n\tDan + Shay (1)<\/p>\n

\n\tDasha (1)<\/p>\n

\n\tCarter Faith (1)<\/p>\n

\n\tFlatland Cavalry (1)<\/p>\n

\n\tCaroline Jones (1)<\/p>\n

\n\tVincent Mason (1)<\/p>\n

\n\tParker McCollum (1)<\/p>\n

\n\tMuscadine Bloodline (1)<\/p>\n

\n\tOld Dominion (1)<\/p>\n

\n\tRascal Flatts (1)<\/p>\n

\n\tThe Red Clay Strays (1)<\/p>\n

\n\tEmily Ann Roberts (1)<\/p>\n

\n\tThelma & James (1)<\/p>\n

\n\tHudson Westbrook (1)<\/p>\n

\n\tTucker Wetmore (1)<\/p>\n

\n\tStephen Wilson Jr. (1)<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"The 61st annual Academy of Country Music Awards will feature 19 performers, including four of the five nominees…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":658010,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[28],"tags":[291128,20364,64,63,1703,134,48101,136],"class_list":["post-658009","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-awards","tag-entertainment","tag-genre-country","tag-music"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/658009","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=658009"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/658009\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/658010"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=658009"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=658009"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=658009"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}