Jason Aldean will pay tribute to the late Toby Keith by performing Keith's 1993 debut hit “Should've Been a Cowboy” at the Academy of Country Music Awards on Thursday, May 16. The song was Keith's first hit in the Advertising signHot Country Songs Chart. It reached No. 1 in June, his first of 20 No. 1 country hits. Keith died on February 5 at the age of 62 after a two-year battle with stomach cancer.
Aldean's performance will be a case of one ACM Entertainer of the Year paying tribute to another. Keith won the award in 2003 and 2004. Aldean won it three years in a row from 2016-18.
Keith has won 14 ACM Awards. Aldean won 15, including artist of the decade for the 2010s.
Hosted by 16-time ACM honoree Reba McEntire, the ACM Awards will be broadcast live to a global audience on Prime Video from the Ford Center at The Star in Frisco, Texas on Thursday, May 16 at 8 p.m. ET/5 p.m. PT. No Prime subscription required to watch live. The full rebroadcast will be available immediately after the stream on Prime Video and will be available the next day for free on Amazon Freevee and the Amazon Music app.
The 2024 ACM Awards will feature collaborative performances from Kelsea Ballerini and Noah Kahan. Blake Shelton and Gwen Stefani? and Nate Smith with Avril Lavigne. Additionally, Post Malone has been booked for the show. He is expected to perform “I Had Some Help,” his new single with Morgan Wallen, though it has yet to be announced.
The show will also feature performances by McEntire, Kane Brown, Jelly Roll, Cody Johnson, Miranda Lambert, Parker McCollum, Thomas Rhett, Blake Shelton, Chris Stapleton and Lainey Wilson.
The 59th Academy of Country Music Awards is produced by Dick Clark Productions. Raj Kapoor is executive producer and showrunner, with Patrick Menton serving as co-executive producer. Damon Whiteside is an executive producer for the Academy of Country Music and Barry Adelman is an executive producer for DCP. John Saade continues to serve as a consulting producer for Amazon MGM Studios.
DCP is owned by Penske Media Eldridge, a subsidiary of Penske Media Corporation (PMC) and a joint venture between PMC and Eldridge. PMC is its parent company Advertising sign.
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