The ACM Awards are tonight at 8:00 p.m. Eastern time and will air on Amazon Prime. Who’s gonna take down Entertainer of the Year? My money is on Cody Johnson or Morgan Wallen. They have some stiff competition though.
While we’re all not-so-patiently waiting, here’s what you need to know to get you ready for the big show:
1. The performers include: Post Malone, Blake Shelton and Gwen Stefani, Kane Brown, and Jelly Roll to name a few.
2. The ACM Kickoff Festival was Tuesday night and they already announced three winners. Nate Smith won Best New Male…Megan Moroney won Best New Female…and Tigirlily Gold won best Duo/Group. This is the first time the Duo/Group award has been presented since 2019.
3. Jelly Roll said he doesn’t deserve to be in the category of Entertainer of the Year, but he is honored. He said, “if I could give the award away myself, I would give it to Cody Johnson.”
4. Jason Aldean plans to pay tribute to Toby Keith by singing “Shoulda Been a Cowboy”.
While we’re here. Here are some awesome throwbacks to the ACMs of yesteryear:
1983 – That time Mr. T gave a weird speech.
1994 – Alan Jackson was told he had to perform with a pre-recorded backing track. He was so pissed at the producers that he sent his drummer out with NO drumsticks. He literally air-drummed the whole song.
2019 – Miranda Lambert threw some shade at Blake Shelton.
And let us not forget in 2022 when the ratings for the awards shows were bad, and they were really bad. We got this gem from Justin Moore…when he said, “If they put country artists on there, they’d probably get back some viewers.” He’s kind of got a point.
Enjoy the show y’all!
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