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NEED TO KNOW
- The 2025 American Music Awards are virtually right here
- This yr, Jennifer Lopez can be internet hosting the Las Vegas-based award present, which has Kendrick Lamar because the most-nominated artist this yr
- Janet Jackson and Rod Stewart will obtain particular awards, celebrating their careers in music
Prepare for the 2025 American Music Awards.
The star-studded awards present developing, and the 51st iteration of the musical celebration is bound to be one for the books, the place Jennifer Lopez returns to the stage 10 years after her final internet hosting gig.
This yr’s awards present, happening on the luxurious resort Fontainebleau Las Vegas, takes place on Memorial Day.
To commemorate the vacation, the AMAs and AMAs and Easy Day Foundation (a Las Vegas-based nonprofit which helps veterans transition to civilian life) are partnering “to current a number of particular in-show moments that commemorate Veterans whereas elevating funds for quite a lot of nationwide and native organizations.”
Through the awards present, two particular performances will happen, together with a “presentation of a particular award honoring a marquee expertise who makes use of their platform to make significant contributions to the Veteran neighborhood.”
This is every thing to know concerning the 2025 American Music Awards.
Check out all of PEOPLE’s full AMAs coverage here.
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Who’s internet hosting the 2025 American Music Awards?
Ten years after hosting the 2015 AMAs, Jennifer Lopez is returning to the stage to function grasp of ceremonies as soon as extra.
“Jennifer’s unimaginable expertise and incomparable stage presence make her the perfect host of the present. We all know she’s going to carry her one-of-a-kind vitality to the official kick off celebration of summer season,” Jay Penske, CEO, Dick Clark Productions, mentioned, per a press launch of Lopez”s expertise.
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Lopez, 55, beforehand teased a potential return in a taped interview forward of the fiftieth AMAs in 2024.
“It is fairly unimaginable, proper? Fifty years of the American Music Awards. I bear in mind watching them at residence after I was just a little woman,” she mentioned, reflecting on her first efficiency in 2001. She has since carried out on the awards present over 10 instances.
“Perhaps I am going to do it once more at some point. Who is aware of?” she added when speaking about her 2015 internet hosting gig.
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Who’s nominated on the 2025 American Music Awards?
Kendrick Lamar dominates the 2025 American Music Awards nominees with 10 nods, together with Artist of the Yr, Album of the Yr, Track of the Yr and Favourite Music Video.
Following Lamar, 37, is Post Malone with eight nods, and Billie Eilish, Chappell Roan and Shaboozey with seven nominations.
In the meantime, first-time nominees embody Benson Boone, Doechii, Gracie Abrams, Jelly Roll, Lola Young, The Marías, ROSÉ, Teddy Swims, Tommy Richman, Tyla, Sabrina Carpenter and Zach Bryan.
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Who’s successful the ICON Award on the 2025 American Music Awards?
This yr, the American Music Awards are honoring Janet Jackson with the ICON Award. This recognition goes to a musician “whose music has had simple cultural and world affect over the music business.” Previous honorees embody Lionel Richie and Rihanna.
The AMAs’ Instagram account referred to as her “probably the most influential entertainers of the trendy period” forward of the awards present.
“Thanks a lot, AMAs!! ♥️ It’s an honor. We sit up for being in your stage once more. See you in Vegas! 😘,” Jackson, 59, said in response.
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Who’s successful the Lifetime Achievement Award on the 2025 American Music Awards?
This yr, Rod Stewart is being acknowledged for his decades-long music profession with the Lifetime Achievement Award.
“Sir Rod Stewart is a grasp showman whose charisma and vitality have defied time and embody the very spirit of rock and roll, “govt producers Barry Adelman, EVP, Tv, and Alexi Mazareas, SVP, Programming & Growth, Dick Clark Productions mentioned in a press release concerning the 80-year-old singer.
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Who’s receiving the Veterans Voice Award on the 2025 American Music Awards?
Zac Brown can be honored with the inaugural Veterans Voice Award introduced by Easy Day Foundation on Monday, Might 26. He can be receiving this award for his unwavering assist of the veteran neighborhood and for making significant, lasting impacts within the lives of Veterans.
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Who’s performing on the 2025 American Music Awards?
Just like the record of nominees, the performances slated for the AMAs are filled with expertise. Blake Shelton, Gwen Stefani, Gloria Estefan, Benson Boone, Lainey Wilson and Reneé Rapp can be taking the stage with completely different performances.
Artists like Estefan, 67, and Stefani, 55, may have career-spanning medleys teed up. Boone, 22, and Rapp, 25, in the meantime, are anticipated to debut new music.
Wilson, 33, will take the stage following a part of her Whirlwind Tour. Shelton, 48, can be selling his new album For Recreational Use Only.
Becky G and Manuel Turizo may even take the stage on Monday evening to debut their new single, “Que Haces.” Alex Warren may even be making his award present efficiency debut in Las Vegas.
Janet Jackson, who’s slated to obtain the ICON Award on Monday evening, may even take the stage, marking her first televised efficiency since 2018.
Rod Stewart, recipient of the Lifetime Achievement Award that evening, may even sing one in all his enduring classics, which can be his first efficiency on the awards present since 2004.
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Who can be presenting on the 2025 American Music Awards
The American Music Awards will function a star-studded lineup of presenters taking the stage on Monday evening.
Alix Earle, Cara Delevingne, Ciara, Dan + Shay, Dylan Efron, Heidi Klum, Jordan Chiles, Kai Cenat, Machine Gun Kelly, Megan Moroney, Nikki Glaser, Shaboozey, Tiffany Haddish, and Wayne Brady will current the winners with their extremely coveted trophies.
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The best way to watch the 2025 American Music Awards
Followers can tune in on Monday, Might 26 at 8 p.m. ET for the American Music Awards produced by Dick Clark Productions, airing dwell from Fontainebleau Las Vegas on CBS and Paramount+.
Followers may even have the ability to livestream the 2025 AMAs on Concord, Penske Media’s proprietary dwell streaming platform that may be seen throughout Penske Media’s owned and operated web sites, together with Selection, Rolling Stone, The Hollywood Reporter, Billboard, WWD, Deadline, Vibe, IndieWire, and Gold Derby, amongst others.