Academy of Country Music Awards Will Move to Dallas in 2023 for Second Prime Video Webcast

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Chris Willman Senior Music Writer and Chief Music CriticWhat happens in Vegas doesn’t always stay in Vegas. The Academy of Country Music Awards will be sticking with Amazon Prime Video for a second year in 2023, but not sticking with Las Vegas, where the broadcast has been based almost every year since 2003.The next ACMs will take place May 11, 2023 in Frisco, Texas at the Ford Center at the Star, a 12,000-seat indoor stadium that hosts sporting events and serves as a practice facility for the Dallas Cowboys.It won’t be the first trip the ACMs have taken to Texas.

In 2015, the 50th annual edition of the ACM Awards was held at AT&T Stadium. Other than that special event, and except for two pandemic-era shows that were necessarily moved to Nashville in 2020-21, the show has been faithful to Sin City over the last couple of decades, being held at the Mandalay Bay Events Center, the MGM Grand Garden Arena and the T-Mobile Arena before finally moving up to the stadium level with a 2022 show at Allegiant Stadium.

Next year’s show will mark a first for the Dallas/Fort Worth area’s six-year-old Ford Center, as the first awards show to be held at the facility.Raj Kapoor has been named as executive producer for the 2023 show.

He most recently served as an executive producer on this year’s Grammy Awards as well as the most recent ACMs, and worked on tours or Las Vegas residencies for a number of major country artists as well.