The Academy of Country Music Awards returns to Prime Video in 2026 with a new multi -year deal for Prime Video

Prime Video renewed his contract with the Academy of Country Music and Dick Clark Productions for another three years

In collaboration with the Academy of Country Music and producer Dick Clark Productions (DCP), Prime Video announced the return of the Academy of Country Music (ACM) for the next three years and took over the show in 2028 through its 63rd ceremony.

The announcement was made before the annual preliminary presentation of Amazon and after the Landmark 60th Academy of Country Music Awards, who streamed live on the Amazon Music Channel on Twitch Live on May 8th in Star in Frisco, Texas, Live Stream. Hosted by 16-time ACM Award-Winning Entertainment Icon Reba Mcentire and Featuring 16 Powerhouse Performanances and Appearances from 40 Artists Including Alan Jackson, Backstreet Boys, Blake Shelton, Brooks & Dunn, Chris Stapleton, Ella Langley, Eric Church, Jelly Roll, Kelsea Ballerini, Lainey Wilson, Leann Rimes, Lionel Richie, Miranda Lambert, Rascal Flatts, Shaboozey, Wynonna Judd and more were the 60th Academy of Country Music Awards, an unforgettable event in the creation. The highest award of the academy, entertainer of the year, was awarded to Lainey Wilson and marked her second year in a row, in which he achieved the coveted title. Ella Langley led the night in overall winners with five prizes, followed by Wilson with four victories. Country legend Alan Jackson received the first ACM Lifetime Achievement Award and Superstar Keith Urban the coveted ACM Triple Crown Award. The show is currently available to stream on Prime Video on Demand and can be found at Amazon.com/acmaward.

“Our ongoing partnership with the Academy of Country Music and Dick Clark Productions was an amazing experience for everyone involved,” says Vernon Sanders, Global Head of Television, Amazon MGM Studios. “With the enormous success of this year's program 60th anniversary of the legendary Reba Mcentire, we are overjoyed to continue our relationship with the academy and the DCP for the next three years. We look forward to maintaining this success and bringing our global prime video customers even more with stars and fascinating shows.”

“Our powerful partnership with Amazon MGM Studios and Prime Video has expanded the reach and accessibility of our show and the Country Music genres to viewers at any time and around the world, which can and should be an experience in the award ceremony in the present area,” says Damon Whiteside, CEO of the Akademie of the Country Music. “The synergies between first -class video, Amazon music, Twitch and the other divisions of Amazon bring our artists, our genre and our fans through an urgent 360 music experience that they cannot get from no other platform. I am so proud of our pioneering work.

“We are very happy to continue our partnership with Prime Video by 2028,” adds Jay Penske, CEO of Dick Clark Productions. “The Academy of Country Music Awards wrote themselves as the first big award show for exclusively livestream and continued to break new ground.

“I have the feeling that it is just another way for us to bring Country music into the world”, the victorious artist of all times of the Academy, Miranda Lambert, provides the partnership between the ACM Awards and Prime Video, States. “Country music is currently very popular, and I am so happy that more people understand what we are about and I am so happy to be part of the ACM story and that it is still exciting for three years.”

The Academy of Country Music Awards, founded in 1966, is the longest running country music awards show and in 2022 wrote history as the first big award ceremony in cooperation with Prime Video exclusively Livestream. Since the show created his partnership for the 57th ACM Awards, the show of Legends Dolly Parton, Garth Brooks and Reba Mcentire has been organized, which have been organized by the greatest cooperation with superstar pairings such as Ed Sheeran and Luke Combs, Dua Lipa and Chris Stapleton, Rascal Flatal and Backstreet and Backstreet and Backstreet -Protocols for the AWMy -Avard -Avard -Award -Award -Aaward -Award -Award -Award -Award -Ward tasks contained.

The 60th Academy of Country Music Awards was produced by Dick Clark Productions. Raj Kapoor was a producer and showrunner and Patrick Menton as a co-executive producer. Damon Whiteside was the executive for the Academy of Country Music, and Jay Penske and Barry Adelman were executing producers for DCP. John Saade served as a consultant for Amazon MGM Studios.