{"id":691693,"date":"2026-05-24T15:14:17","date_gmt":"2026-05-24T15:14:17","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/691693\/"},"modified":"2026-05-24T15:14:17","modified_gmt":"2026-05-24T15:14:17","slug":"2026-american-music-awards-everything-you-need-to-know","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/691693\/","title":{"rendered":"2026 American Music Awards: Everything you need to know!"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The 52nd American Music Awards take place this Monday, Memorial Day, at the MGM Grand Garden Arena in Las Vegas.<\/p>\n<p>This year\u2019s AMAs are hosted by the one and only Queen Latifah. Taylor Swift leads the nominees with 8 nods, including Artist of the Year and Album of the Year.<\/p>\n<p>The show will have electrifying performances from KATSEYE, Sombr, Teddy Swims, Teyana Taylor, Hootie &amp; the Blowfish, Maluma, Riley Green, New Kids on the Block, Pussycat Dolls and Busta Rhymes, and Keith Urban.<\/p>\n<p>Karol G is set to receive the International Artist Award of Excellence, while Billy Idol will accept a Lifetime Achievement Award.<\/p>\n<p>The AMAs also announced a slew of presenters that include \u201cKPop Demon Hunter\u201d star EJAE, Paula Abdul, \u201cHacks\u201d stars Meg Stalter and Paul W. Downs, Nikki Glaser, Olympian Alysa Liu, Anthony Ramos, Gabriel \u201cFluffy\u201d Iglesias, GloRilla, Hannah Berner, Hilary Duff, Jason Derulo, John Legend, Leon Thomas, Lisa Rinna, Ludacris, Mariah the Scientist, Matt Rife, and Russell Dickerson.<\/p>\n<p>The show will also feature a special live appearance by BTS.<\/p>\n<p>The 52nd American Music Awards is set to air live coast-to-coast on Monday (May 25) at 8:00 p.m. ET \/ 5:00 p.m. PT.<\/p>\n<p>We will be on the red carpet so be sure to check back for all of our interviews!<\/p>\n<p>Follow us on Instagram <a href=\"https:\/\/www.instagram.com\/wearepauserewind\" target=\"_blank\" title=\"https:\/\/www.instagram.com\/wearepauserewind\" class=\"themeColorForLinks\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\">@WeArePauseRewind <\/a>for all your pop culture obsessions. <\/p>\n<p><script async src=\"\/\/www.instagram.com\/embed.js\"><\/script><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"The 52nd American Music Awards take place this Monday, Memorial Day, at the MGM Grand Garden Arena in&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":691694,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[28],"tags":[22081,64,63,405,134,337526,2623,68206,337525,136,216899,2897],"class_list":["post-691693","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-music","tag-american-music-awards","tag-au","tag-australia","tag-bts","tag-entertainment","tag-international-artist-award","tag-las-vegas","tag-lifetime-achievement-award","tag-mgm-grand","tag-music","tag-queen-latifah","tag-taylor-swift"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/691693","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=691693"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/691693\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/691694"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=691693"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=691693"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=691693"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}