The special marked the first AMAs event since 2022 and featured performances from Mariah Carey, Stray Kids, Green Day, Brad Paisley, and more

CBS and Dick Clark Productions announced the music artists who will be presenting and performing at the American Music Awards' 50th Anniversary Special on Sunday, Oct. 6, which is being held in place of the annual award ceremony in honor of the milestone year.

The American Music Awards 50th Anniversary Special will air coast-to-coast on Sunday, Oct. 6, at 8 p.m. ET/ 5 p.m. PT on CBS and CBS.com. If you have cable (or a digital TV antenna like these from Amazon ), you can watch the AMAs special on TV through your local CBS affiliate on DirectTV Stream, fuboTV, SlingTV and Paramount+ with Showtime.

Boy band Stray Kids performed at the American Music Awards’ (AMAs) two-hour special event held at LA Center Studios in Los Angeles, California on Oct. 6 to celebrate the major U.S. pop music awards' 50th anniversary.

K-pop's Stray Kids paid tribute to *NSYNC, one of history's most influential boybands, with an ode to the latter's iconic marionette performance of 'Bye Bye Bye' on Sunday's special.

South Korean boy band Stray Kids delivers a high-energy performance of *NSYNC's ‘Bye Bye Bye’ at the American Music Awards 50th Anniversary Special. Introduced by *NSYNC's Lance Bass and Backstreet Boys' AJ McLean,

Stray Kids made their American Music Awards debut during the ceremony's 50th-anniversary special on Sunday. The K-pop boy band won hearts with their NSYNC-inspired performance. They paid homage to the iconic '90s boy band with a marionette-style performance of their 2000 hit Bye Bye Bye.