Thursday evening’s 60th Academy of Country Music Awards have announced a series of updates regarding the festivities.
The milestone event will stream exclusively on Prime Video from Ford Center at The Star in Frisco, Texas, at 8 p.m. ET / 5 p.m. PT.
Blake Shelton at Ole Red in Nashville, Tenn., Wednesday, April 2, 2025.
Of note, Keith Urban, who, by 2019, had won Entertainer of the Year and Best New Male and Best Male Artist of the Year honors, will receive his Triple Crown Award honoring that achievement.
As well, country radio’s current chart topper, “Texas” performer Blake Shelton, will join nearly two dozen presenters representing 70 ACM Award victories over the awards program’s six-decade history, who have also been announced to appear.
Who will be presenting at the 60th ACM Awards?
The acclaimed group of presenters joining the anniversary show includes:
Blake Shelton (five-time ACM Award-winning artist)
Carly Pearce (four-time ACM Award-winning artist)
Clint Black (six-time ACM Award-winning artist)
Crystal Gayle (four-time ACM Award-winning artist)
ERNEST (five-time ACM Award nominee)
Gabby Barrett (ACM Award-winning artist)
ERNEST walks the carpet at the 59th ACM Awards at the Ford Center at the Star in Frisco, Texas, Thursday, May 16, 2024.
Gretchen Wilson (two-time ACM Award-winning artist)
Lee Ann Womack (five-time ACM Award-winning artist)
Jordan Davis (two-time ACM Award-winning artist)
Lionel Richie (two-time ACM Award-winning singer, songwriter, producer, and American Idol judge)
Little Big Town (eight-time ACM Award-winning group)
Martina McBride (four-time ACM Award-winning artist)
Parker McCollum, left, performs with Jordan Davis, right during the ACM Lifting Lives event at Top Golf in The Colony, Texas., Wednesday, May 15, 2024.
Parker McCollum (two-time ACM Award-winning artist)
Riley Green (two-time ACM Award-winning artist)
Rita Wilson, singer-songwriter and actress
Sara Evans (ACM Award-winning artist)
Sugarland (five-time ACM Award-winning duo)
The Oak Ridge Boys (three-time ACM Award-winning group)
Kelly Sutton, left, and Amber Anderson walk the carpet at the 59th ACM Awards at the Ford Center at the Star in Frisco, Texas, Thursday, May 16, 2024.
Wynonna Judd (eight-time ACM Award-winning artist)
Chase Elliott, NASCAR driver
Amber Anderson and Kelly Sutton, Amazon Music’s co-hosts of the Country Heat Weekly Podcast
The celebration of 60 years of the ACM Awards will feature an opening of 12 minutes straight of music highlighting ACM Songs of the Year from six decades in an all-star performance featuring Clint Black, Dan + Shay, LeAnn Rimes, Sugarland, Reba McEntire, and Wynonna Judd. The show will also feature previously announced performers including Alan Jackson, Backstreet Boys, Blake 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’s Triple Crown
Keith Urban’s ACM win will be celebrated by performances of his chart-topping hits by Chris Stapleton, Megan Moroney and Brothers Osborne. The ACM Triple Crown Award is presented to artists who have won New Artist of the Year, Artist of the Year, and Entertainer of the Year.
Urban achieved this honor by winning Top New Male Vocalist in 2001, Male Vocalist of the Year in 2005 and 2006 and Entertainer of the Year in 2019.
Keith Urban and Miranda Lambert perform at the 13th Annual ACM Honors at the Ryman Wednesday, Aug. 21, 2019, in Nashville, Tenn.
His receiving of the award at the ACMs and not at the ACM Honors event annually held at the Ryman Auditorium makes him the first artist to receive this honor on the ACM Awards since Carrie Underwood in 2010.