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Every 2025 American Music Awards Performance Ranked

Here are all the 2025 AMAs performances ranked.

Longtime A-listers such as Janet Jackson, Rod Stewart and host Jennifer Lopez would cede the stage to up-and-comers including Benson Boone, Alex Warren and Reneé Rapp at the Fontainebleau Las Vegas, while their peers in the audience and collecting the trophies remained just as varied. With a voice as familiar as Stewart’s and a song as timeless as “Forever Young,” the AMAs producers lined up a crowd-pleaser to finish off the ceremony — although the Riverdance vibe from the performance, complete with fleet-footed dancers and bagpipes, upended expectations as well. A few seconds into his performance of global smash “Ordinary,” however, Warren retreated a few feet to the back toward a swelling chorus of voices, and the background morphed into the enormous moon of the song’s artwork, capturing the magnitude of the moment for an artist who’s been enjoying a meteoric rise.

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