The endless procession of awards shows on CBS just got longer.
The network has now added the return of the American Music Awards to its schedule for May 2025. This is will be just a few months after the Grammy Awards, considered the main legit show for the music biz, in late January.
There won’t be an AMA this year. Instead, CBS will air a two hour special about them in October, celebrating their 50th anniversary.
The AMAs come from Dick Clark Productions, which now also give us the revived Golden Globes on CBS. Dick Clark Productions also has the Billboard Music Awards, which are set for November on streaming.
The announcement was made via The Hollywood Reporter, whose company owns Dick Clark Productions, as well as Variety, Billboard and other publications.
For all time, the Grammys were considered the crown jewel equivalent of the Oscars, Tonys, and Emmys — hence the acronym EGOT. They’ve always been on CBS, and in the past an artist who performed on the AMAS– which used to be in November on ABC –was not allowed to sing or play on the Grammys.
But that was all under executive producer Pierre Cossette, who had very high standards and made the Grammys into a legacy. But now CBS has turned the Kennedy Center Awards, which air in December, into their kind of Grammys, stuffing them with music acts. CBS also broadcasts the Tony Awards in June, and this year they started to make the turn toward the Grammys as well.
If only there was enough new music to support all this Grammyfication. But there isn’t. Music sales this month, for example, are the lowest ever. The charts are crowded with multiple releases by just a few acts: Taylor Swift and Zach Bryan top the list with six and three of the top 50 right now, and Morgan Wallen with two albums. At least half of the top 50 is composed of albums more than a year old.
