Janet Jackson to Obtain ICON Award at 2025 AMAs

The American Music Awards are returning to tv this yr, and so is Janet Jackson. Jackson is ready to obtain the ICON Award on the ceremony on Might 26, the place she may even carry out on TV for the primary time in seven years.

The occasion, held on the Fontainebleau Las Vegas, takes place throughout Jackson’s residency on the Resorts World Las Vegas, which she’ll kick off on Might 21. Throughout her profession, which spans over 4 many years, Jackson has received 11 AMAs (alongside 5 Grammys, a Golden Globe, and lots of different accolades).

Jackson final carried out on tv in 2018 on the Billboard Music Awards, when she saluted the #MeToo motion throughout her speech. “I consider that for all of the challenges, for all our challenges, we stay at an excellent second in historical past,” she mentioned.

Jackson is the third recipient of the ICON Award, after Rihanna (2013) and Lionel Richie (2022), when the AMAs final happened. They’re coming back from a two-year hiatus, with three new classes: Album, Track, and Social Track of the Yr. Jennifer Lopez would be the host, whereas Kendrick Lamar leads nominations with 10 nods throughout seven classes. The occasion will air stay by way of CBS and stream on Paramount+. 

Jackson is the third recipient of the ICON Award, after Lionel Richie (2022) and Rihanna (2013). She acquired the Final Icon Award on the BET Awards in 2015 and was inducted into the Rock and Roll Corridor of Fame 4 years later, alongside Stevie Nicks, Radiohead, the Zombies, and others.

“I witnessed, together with the remainder of the world, my household’s extraordinary impression on fashionable tradition,” Jackson mentioned in her Rock Corridor acceptance speech. “Not simply in America, however throughout the globe, your entire globe. Because the youngest within the household, I used to be decided to make it by myself. I wished to face by myself two toes, however by no means in one million years did I anticipate to comply with of their footsteps. Tonight, your child sister has made it in.”