Earlier in March, Mickey Guyton was announced as the co-host for the 2021 ACM Awards alongside Keith Urban, the latter of whom helmed the show solo last year. It's not the first time the two stars have teamed up; in fact, it was their performance at last year's ACMs that gave showrunners the idea to invite Guyton to co-host, ACM CEO Damon Whiteside tells At the 2020 ceremony, Guyton performed her commanding "What Are You Gonna Tell Her?," a ballad that spells out the inequality women and Black people face both in the music industry and in society at large. Urban accompanied her on piano as she sang. Her performance marked the first on the ACMs stage from a solo Black female artist, and it left a powerful impact on the show's executives.