Keith Urban To Be Honoured With Prestigious ACM Triple Crown Award

Keith Urban is set to be honoured by the Academy of Country Music Awards (ACMs) this week by being named a Triple Crown winner.

A prestigious award given to only a handful of country music legends—the last artist to be awarded the Triple Crown was Carrie Underwood in 2010—the ACMs are showing just how highly regarded Urban is in the industry.

The ACM Triple Crown Award offers special recognition to artists who have won three distinct awards at the Academy of Country Music Awards, including New Artist of the Year, Artist of the Year, and Entertainer of the Year. Urban has all three. In 2001, he won the Top New Male Vocalist award, then Male Vocalist of the Year in 2005 and 2006, and Entertainer of the Year in 2019.

Urban won’t just receive an award this week; artists such as Chris Stapleton, Megan Moroney, and Brothers Osborne will pay tribute to the New Zealand-born, Australian-raised singer-songwriter by performing his songs live on stage.

Keith Urban will receive the Triple Crown Award at this year’s ACM Awards on Thursday, 8 May, at the Ford Centre at The Star in Frisco, Texas. The awards, celebrating their 60th anniversary, will begin at 8 pm ET / 7 pm CT / 5 pm PT, and livestream exclusively on Prime Video and the Amazon Music channel on Twitch.

This year’s awards will see duets from the Backstreet Boys and Rascal Flatts, Jelly Roll and Shaboozey, and Brooks & Dunn and Cody Johnson.

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Additional performers include Eric Church, Lainey Wilson, Blake Shelton, Miranda Lambert, Zach Top, Ella Langley, Alan Jackson, Kelsea Ballerini, Clint Black, Wynonna Judd, Dan + Shay, LeAnn Rimes, Sugarland, and this year’s host, 16-time ACM award winner, Reba McEntire.