Instead, a special anniversary show will air on October 6, the date originally scheduled for the awards.
CBS and Dick Clark Productions announced Tuesday that the American Music Awards will return in May 2025. The American Music Awards, which last aired in 2022, were originally scheduled to air on CBS on Oct. 6. It will be the first time the awards show has aired on CBS since moving from ABC. CBS did not disclose the reason for the change.
On its previous Oct. 6 time slot, CBS will air a two-hour special celebrating pop culture history. (The anniversary special will also be available to stream on Paramount+.)
American music “The anniversary awards show will be a tribute to the past 50 years and will feature dazzling new performances, candid interviews with legendary artists and special guests, and exclusive, never-before-seen footage from DCP’s vast archives, highlighting the iconic moments that defined the awards show and shaped popular culture,” the synopsis reads. Performers for the show have not been announced.
The 2022 American Music Awards saw categories including Favorite Afrobeat Artist, K-Pop Artist, Rock Song and Rock Album, while the Favorite Touring Artist award was brought back after it was axed during the pandemic. Taylor Swift, billed as the biggest fan-voted awards show in the world, won all six categories she was nominated for in 2022, including Artist of the Year. Bad Bunny — who won in two categories — entered the awards show with eight nominations. Beyoncé, Drake and Swift each received six nominations. When Swift accepted the Artist of the Year award, she thanked fans with “13 exclamation points.”
“I’ve released more music in the last few years than I did in the entire decade before that, and I really feel like that’s because you, the fans, have made it clear that you want to hear a lot of the music that I have to make,” Swift said during the November 2022 concert. “You’ve encouraged me. I’ve found that the more music I make, the more music I put out, the happier I am.”
