Shania Twain hosts the Vegas-set ceremony this weekend, with Megan Moroney and Ella Langley among the top nominees

Giddyap! The 61st Academy of Country Music Awards are tomorrow. The annual affair, which takes place this Sunday, May 17, in Las Vegas, brings collectively the brightest stars in nation music, from up-and-coming artists to a few of the style’s most beloved names.

This 12 months’s awards present options a powerful roster of nation music artists. Megan Moroney, Miranda Lambert, Ella Langley and Lainey Wilson are among the night’s top nominees, and Kacey Musgraves, Thomas Rhett and Little Big Town are just some of the artists which might be slated to carry out. As for who’s internet hosting the coveted nation affair? Well, that might be none aside from Shania Twain, who launched her new tune, “Dirty Rosie,” on Wednesday.

“This is fun to me,” Twain recently told ABC. “Hosting the ACMs is a chance to go celebrate all of the other artists, meet the new artists, the up-and-coming artists, [to] celebrate a lot of the artists that have been rockin’ it the last several years that I haven’t been around much, to say ‘congratulations’ and ‘way to go’ and all that kinda stuff.”

She added, “For me, it is a chance to reconnect with my favorite genre, which is my root music, country, and do my best job representing my genre.”

Below, Yahoo rounded up all the things there may be to learn about this 12 months’s Academy of Country Music Awards, from the night’s full roster of performers and nominees to whom Twain is most excited to satisfy.

Back to Sin City

For the final three years, the ACM Awards have been held at the Star in Frisco, Texas. But after its contract expired final 12 months, the awards present is formally headed again to its longtime house of Las Vegas, the place it would stream dwell from the famed MGM Grand Garden Arena.

The ACM Awards kick off at 8 pm ET on Sunday and will probably be accessible to stream on Prime Video and Twitch.

Who Shania Twain is most excited to satisfy

How are you aware that you just’re rising in the ranks of nation music superstardom? When Shania Twain says she’s excited to satisfy you. During an appearance on the Today show Earlier this month, Twain was dished out on all issues ACM Awards, together with her excitement to meet Ella Langley.

“When I first heard her song come out, I thought, ‘Wow, this is the real thing,’” Twain mentioned of Langley. “I realized how much I had been missing hearing that authenticity. Musically, production-wise, her voice, her lyrics. So I’m very excited to meet her. I want to know more about where this style came from. Obviously, must have been rooted in something from her childhood, which is really, really great. So I’m excited to meet her.”

Twain has each cause to be excited for Sunday night time’s awards present. In addition to assembly an up-and-coming feminine nation star like Langley, the “That Don’t Impress Me Much” hitmaker is reaching a profession milestone of her personal. This 12 months marks Twain’s first time hosting the Academy of Country Music Awards. The Canadian celebrity has received three ACM awards all through her profession: Top New Female Vocalist and Album of the Year for The Woman in Me in 1996 and Entertainer of the Year in 2000. Twain was additionally given the Double-Diamond Award in 1999 and the ACM Poet’s Award in 2022.

Twain can be a part of an rising development at the present: this will probably be the second 12 months in a row that each the host and the 12 months’s top nominee are ladies. Last 12 months, Reba McEntire hosted whereas Ella Langley led with eight nominations.

Women lead this 12 months’s crop of nominees

The 61st Academy of Country Music Awards will probably be a female-led affair. Leading this 12 months’s nominees is Megan Moroney, who’s up for 9 awards on Sunday, together with Female Artist of the Year and her first-ever nominations for Entertainer of the Year and Artist-Songwriter of the Year. Notably, Moroney — regardless of her 9 nominations — is the solely one in every of the top nomination leaders not scheduled to carry out Sunday.

Miranda Lambert, the most embellished artist in ACM historical past, is in second place with eight nominations, whereas Ella Langley and Lainey Wilson observe shut behind with seven nominations apiece. Langley is the reigning ACM New Female Artist of the Year, whereas Wilson is the reigning ACM Entertainer of the Year.

See the full list of nominees here.

Country stars and sports activities figures will current

The presenters lineup mixes nation music figures with sports activities analysts. Country presenters embody Keith Urban, Lauren Alaina, Shaboozey, Ashley McBryde, The War And Treaty and TJ Osborne (presenting alone, not with the remainder of Brothers Osborne). They’ll be joined by Michael Bublé — the five-time Grammy winner who seems exterior his normal jazz lane — plus NFL analysts Andrew Whitworth and Ryan Fitzpatrick and NASCAR drivers Carl Edwards and Corey LaJoie.

Kacey Musgraves to deliver ‘Middle of Nowhere’ to Vegas

Country music followers can count on a star-studded roster of performances at this Sunday’s awards present. Among the night’s most extremely anticipated is first-time ACM performer Kacey Musgraves, who will carry out a observe from her newly launched album, Middle of Nowhere.

Musgraves additionally famously squashed some long-speculated beef with fellow 2026 ACM Awards performer Lambert, with whom she collaborated on the new duet “Horses and Divorces.”

More feminine nation music stars, together with nominees Langley and Wilson, are set to serenade audiences at the MGM Grand Garden Arena, alongside with male artists together with Blake Shelton, Dan + Shay, Kane Brown, Thomas Rhett, Tucker Wetmore and Cody Johnson.

Check out the full list of 2026 ACM performers here.