be somewhat of a return to form, with a little bit of new sprinkled in

[Jin Wah]

The 57th Academy of Country Music Awards will be presented Monday in Las Vegas at Allegiant Stadium.

The academy describes its 2022 event as "a show so big, only a stadium can hold it." It will make history as the first major awards show to stream live exclusively.

You can watch the festivities from the comfort of your home on Amazon Prime Video, which available for a 30-day free subscription. The pre-show starts at 7 p.m. ET/4 PT, followed by the awards show proper at 8 ET/5 PT.

Chris Young is up for seven awards, including album and single of the year. Three of Young's nominations are shared with Kane Brown, whom he paired with for last summer's radio hit "Famous Friends."

"Fancy Like" singer Walker Hayes is nominated for best new artist among five nods for the first-time ACM Awards nominee. Chris Stapleton also earned five nominations in 2022 – his nod for entertainer of the year is his fourth overall. Also, Miranda Lambert received a record-tying 16th nomination for female artist of the year (only Reba McEntire had previously accomplished the feat) among her five nominations.

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Notable as well is that Morgan Wallen, who was shut out of consideration for last year's ACM Awards after being caught on camera using a racial slur, has four nominations: first-time nods for male artist of the year, album and song, plus an additional nod as a songwriter.

The Academy of Country Music somehow handled two of the strangest years in recent memory with incredible grace. Rather than attempting to deny the troubling circumstances, the organization leaned into the weird and hosted their annual West Coat awards show in Nashville for the first time, offering up a lot of visual variety between the different venues and imaginative pre-taped performances.

This year’s edition will likely be somewhat of a return to form, with a little bit of new sprinkled in. The show will be back in its longtime home of Las Vegas and a live audience will present, but this time around, it’s at a new venue and on a different network. After CBS declined to renew its contract to broadcast the ACM Awards, the ceremonies will now be a streaming-only event in conjunction with Amazon Prime.
Many of country’s present-day stars will get a turn onstage. Chris Stapleton, Eric Church, Maren Morris, Kane Brown, Luke Bryan, Jason Aldean, Brothers Osborne, Thomas Rhett, Carrie Underwood, and Chris Young will all perform. Kelly Clarkson will sing “I Will Always Love You” in tribute to co-host Dolly Parton. Walker Hayes, whose song “Fancy Like” was one of 2021’s biggest country singles and his commercial breakthrough, will perform. Co-hosts Jimmie Allen and Gabby Barrett will share the stage at the top of the show, a segment during which Allen will perform his new single “Down Home” and Elvis Presley’s “Viva Las Vegas,” and Barrett will sing Lee Ann Womack’s “I Hope You Dance” and Faith Hill’s “Let’s Go to Vegas.”

Collaborations also abound. Host Dolly Parton will sing her new song “Big Dreams and Faded Jeans” with Kelsea Ballerini, while Carly Pearce and Ashley McBryde perform their duet “Never Wanted to Be That Girl.” Other collaborations include Jordan Davis and Luke Bryan on “Buy Dirt,” Brittney Spencer making her show debut with Brothers Osborne on “These Boots Were Made for Walkin’,” Breland and Thomas Rhett on “Praise the Lord,” Parmalee and Blanco Brown with Brooke Eden on “Just the Way,” and Chris Young and Mitchell Tenpenny on “At the End of a Bar.”