When Is The AMAs 2025? Date & Time Revealed
The date and time of the 2025 have been revealed. Produced by Dick Clark Productions, the annual ceremony began in 1974 and has since become a prominent part of the American pop culture. It is widely regarded as one of the most honorable music awards in the country.
Here are the details on when the AMAs 2025 are going to air.
The 2025 American Music Awards will be broadcast from Fontainebleau Las Vegas at 8 p.m. ET/5 p.m. PT on Memorial Day, Monday, May 26, on CBS. It will also stream on Paramount+. Jennifer Lopez will serve as the host. It will be the 51st edition of the event. CBS reportedly intends to hold the ceremony on Memorial Day from now.
It will be the first AMA Awards in three years. The last one was hosted back in 2022, where Wayne Brady served as the host. It was also the last iteration of the event to air on ABC. The network's contract for the AMAs expired in 2022, and that was the reason it went on a three-year hiatus.
In 2024, various outlets reported that the American Music Awards had found a new home at CBS after a multi-year deal that the network entered. The rights to broadcast the AMAs were part of a five-year agreement that CBS signed to air the Golden Globe Awards. However, it's unclear whether CBS will broadcast the AMAs for the next five years as well.
While the ceremony didn't take place in 2024, CBS aired a televised special to mark the AMAs' 50th anniversary. There, Lopez made an appearance alongside the likes of Carrie Underwood, Brad Paisley, Mariah Carey, Gloria Estefan, Green Day, Jennifer Hudson, Chaka Khan, Kane Brown, Nelly, Nile Rodgers & CHIC, and Jimmy Kimmel.
The AMAs are reportedly the world's largest fan-voted award show. It honors people who have accomplished remarkable things in the music industry.
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Sunset Boulevard appears to be the likely winner for both Musical Lighting Design and Musical Sound Design, and Dane Laffrey will surely win Musical Scenic Design. But I can't seem to choose between Death Becomes Her or Boop! The Musical for costumes. Boop! has the potential to spoil the race in all three of its nominations! Where are you leaning? SEE Tony Talk: Sarah Snook and Cole Escola remain strong in lead, but upsets loom in the featured play races Buchanan: That is an extraordinarily tough contest for Musical Costume Design between Gregg Barnes for Boop! and Paul Tazewell for Death Becomes Her! Both would make for deserving winners and Tazewell has had an extraordinary year with his historic Academy Award win for Wicked, but I have landed on Boop! for the upset win. 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For the four play design categories, it looks like the technical marvel Stranger Things: The First Shadow will very likely gobble up three for Play Scenic Design, Play Lighting Design, and Play Sound Design, but how about that tricky Play Costume Design category? Will Mary Todd Lincoln's hoop skirts or Sarah Snook's two dozen different looks prevail? Eckmann: Stranger Things should indeed prevail in three of its four categories thanks to its monstrously impressive stagecraft. But the costume design race is a different story. Our odds favor Oh, Mary! and it certainly helps that the show is a wildly popular Best Play nominee. But I believe The Picture of Dorian Gray costumer Marg Horwell will handily buck our odds and place a Tony on her shelf next to the Olivier she won for the same show. Her outfits, and their ability to rapidly transform in front of the audience, are an essential piece of Sarah Snook's 26-character magic trick. 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