The American Music Awards is formally set to return on Memorial Day.
The music awards present, which final aired on ABC in 2022, will air reside from Las Vegas on Monday, Could 26 on CBS and Paramount+ within the U.S.
The AMAs took 2023 off and have been initially set to return within the fall of 2024, however that slot switched to a fiftieth anniversary particular, which aired on CBS in October.
The 51st AMAs, from Dick Clark Productions, is the “world’s largest fan-voted award present,” based on DCP and can have fun this 12 months’s finest in music, and, because of its Memorial Day placement, pay tribute to U.S. veterans.
The present will air reside coast-to-coast at 8 p.m. ET/5 p.m. PT.
The transfer marks the primary time the AMAs has aired in Could, and it’ll happen simply months after the 2025 Grammys, which additionally aired on CBS.
The AMAs’ fiftieth anniversary particular averaged greater than 6 million viewers for its Oct. 6 broadcast, a 54 p.c improve over the 2022 AMAs on ABC and largest year-over-year progress of a music particular or award present on TV in 2024.
DCP additionally stated that the particular was the most-streamed AMAs within the present’s historical past, racking up 65 million views throughout social media platforms within the week because it aired.
The 2022 AMAs, which aired on Nov. 20 of that 12 months, noticed Taylor Swift sweep, successful all six awards for which she was nominated together with the highest prize of artist of the 12 months, and prolong her report because the most-awarded artist in AMAs historical past.
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