Blake Shelton, Carly Pearce, Lionel Richie and More Stars Announced as Presenters for the 2025 ACM Awards
The 2025 Academy of Country Music Awards, hosted by Reba McEntire, air live from Ford Center at the Star in Frisco, Texas on May 8 via Prime Video. PEOPLE has the full list of presenters.
Blake Shelton in March 2025; Carly Pearce in March 2025; Lionel Richie in December 2024. Credit :
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On May 7, the Academy of Country Music, Prime Video and Dick Clark Productions unveiled the list of presenters set to take the stage for this year's ACM Awards, hosted by Reba McEntire.
Among the stars presenting at the May 8 ceremony are Blake Shelton, Carly Pearce, Clint Black, Crystal Gayle, ERNEST, Gabby Barrett, Gretchen Wilson, Lee Ann Womack, Jordan Davis and Lionel Richie.
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Jimi Westbrook, Kimberly Schlapman, Karen Fairchild and Phillip Sweet of Little Big Town in April 2024.
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Additional presenters include Little Big Town, Martina McBride, Parker McCollum, Riley Green, Rita Wilson, Sara Evans, Sugarland, the Oak Ridge Boys, Wynonna Judd, Chase Elliott, Amber Anderson and Kelly Sutton.
Bobby Bones will also be present at the 2025 ACM Awards to conduct artist interviews throughout the show.
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Martina McBride in January 2024.
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The awards show is set to open with a 12-minute performance from Black, Dan + Shay, LeAnn Rimes, Sugarland, McEntire and Judd, who will celebrate the Song of the Year winners from the last 60 years of the ACMs.
Other musicians performing at the ceremony include Alan Jackson, Backstreet Boys, Shelton, Brooks & Dunn, Brothers Osborne, Chris Stapleton, Cody Johnson, Ella Langley, Eric Church, Jelly Roll, Kelsea Ballerini, Lainey Wilson, Megan Moroney, Miranda Lambert, Rascal Flatts, Shaboozey and Zach Top.
Keith Urban will be honored at the event with ACM Triple Crown Award. Stapleton, Moroney and Brothers Osborne will perform in tribute to the "Love Somebody" artist, who's earned over a dozen No. 1 hits on the Billboard Hot Country Songs chart throughout his career.
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The 2025 ACM Awards nominations were announced in March, and Langley led the pack with eight total, followed by Morgan Wallen, Wilson and Johnson with seven each as well as Green and Post Malone, who each earned five.
BeyoncÊ, who released her Grammy-winning album Cowboy Carter in March of last year, was notably left off the nominations list.
The 2025 Academy of Country Music Awards will stream live via Prime Video on May 8 at 8 p.m. ET.