He was honored with special appearances by Megan Moroney, Brothers Osborne and Chris Stapleton.
Keith Urban joined an elite group of Country music legends on Thursday evening (May 8th) when he was honored with the coveted triple crown award from the Academy of Country music during the 60th ACM Awards.
The prestigious award celebrates artists who have achieved three of the most prestigious categories of ACM victories. Urban completed his triple crown journey with previous victories as a top new male singer (2001), male singer of the year (2005, 2006) and entertainer of the Year (2019). He is the first artist to receive this honor during the ACM Awards since Carrie Underwood in 2010 at the 45th ACM Awards.
To mark the milestone, Urban’s Impact and Legacy was celebrated with a special medley of performances with some of today’s most celebrated artists.
Megan Moroney – “stupid boy”
In this special part of the show, Megan Moroney was the stage first. In a dazzling white overall, the singer dressed her rhinestone guitar and provided the hit of Urban 2008, “stupid boy”. The Australian singer/songwriter next to his wife Entertainment Scroll Kidman, who was also present in the audience, could be seen how she smiles and sings about the signature melody.
Chris Stapleton – “Blue is not your color”
Next came Chris Stapleton, who conquered the groovy, sultry nature of the 22. His soulful vocals increased next to the rich accompaniment of his band, and he raised the bar even higher with an impressive run at Urban’s signature guitar riffs.
Brothers Osborne – “Where the Blacktop ends”
Stapleton ended with a loud “We Love You, Keith” before Brothers Osborne brought the party with her energetic delivery of “Where the Blackop ends” by Urban’s 1991 self -titled project. This performance would not have been complete without Keith Urban jumping to do what it best does with an E guitar in his hand.
The trio of artists ended the tribute with a lively note in which the audience danced in full power and sent. The Osborne brothers came back to the microphone to officially present the “Straight Lines” singer with its award.
Urban made sure that he started his acceptance speech by thanking each of the artists and their bands who helped him to pay tribute to him just a few moments before. When he looked around and the immense amount of love and support from the country music community, he was clearly overwhelmed by emotions.
He took a moment to gather before he said: “I should thank the ACM for it, and my wife Entertainment Scroll Mary is here tonight. I love you baby and our girls, Sunday and trust at home tonight, I love you both too. And I have a massive team that I cannot thank you that I cannot thank myself.
He was grateful for a few other essential groups of people and shared his excitement to walk back on the street for his headliners High and Alive World Tour at the end of May.
“Country Radio, my record company, Capital Records and the most amazing promo team out there. Thank you for going to” Straight Line “. We will be on tour at the end of this month, High and Alive World Tour.
Keith Urban now joins the elite list of earlier triple crown winners, which also includes Carrie Underwood, Lainey Wilson, Chris Stapleton, Brooks & Dunn, Merle Haggard, Kenny Chesney, Jason Aldean and Miranda Lambert.
2025 ACM Awards
The 60th Academy of Country Music Awards also showed appearances by Alan Jackson, Blake Shelton, Chris Stapleton, Eric Church, Brothers Osborne, Miranda Lambert, Lainey Wilson, Kelsea Ballerini, Ella Langley, Zach Top and Megan Moroney.
The show also included a number of cooperations and milestone moments. Wynonna Judd led a powerful 12-minute medley that had celebrated ACM songs of the year from the past six decades and was summarized by Reba Mcencentire, Clint Black, Sugarland, Dan + Shay and Leann Rimes. In the meantime, the backstreet boys merged with Rascal Flatts, Jelly Roll teamed up with Shaboozey and Brooks & Dunn steel the show alongside Cody Johnson.
Reba Mcentire organized the two and a half hours, commercial event, which was directed to a global audience in over 240 countries and territories on the Prime video and the Amazon Music Channel.
