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\n\tRecent Kids on the Block brought \u201cthe proper stuff\u201d to the 2026 American Music Awards on Monday night.<\/p>\n
\n\tThe group \u2014 consisting of Jordan and Jonathan Knight, Joey McIntyre, Donnie Wahlberg and Danny Wood \u2014 hit the stage on the MGM Grand Garden Arena in Las Vegas for a live performance of their 1988 hit \u201cYou Got It (The Right Stuff).\u201d <\/p>\n
\n\tIn front of a Las Vegas-centric backdrop, the group, wearing matching black suits with rhinestone lapels, performed the song\u2019s iconic dance to the delight of the audience. <\/p>\n
\n\tThe performance also featured a variety of pyrotechnic moments.<\/p>\n
\n\t\u201cYou Got It (The Right Stuff)\u201d was the second single released from the band\u2019s massively successful sophomore album, 1988\u2019s Hangin\u2019 Tough <\/em>(1988).<\/p>\n \n\tPrior to their performance, the AMAs showed a highlight reel of the group\u2019s past AMAs appearances.<\/p>\n \n\tNKOTB\u2019s AMAs performance comes nearly a 12 months after they launched their Las Vegas residency on the Dolby Live theater at Park MGM.\u00a0 In November, they added several more dates attributable to \u201coverwhelming demand.\u201d<\/p>\n \n\tThe 2026 American Music Awards, hosted by Queen Latifah, aired survive CBS and Paramount+.<\/p>\n \n\tTop winners, with three trophies each included BTS, who won all of the awards for which they were nominated; Sombr; KATSEYE, who delivered a dance-heavy performance of their song \u201cPinky Up\u201d; Bruno Mars; Cardi B; Sabrina Carpenter; and the singing voices of Huntrix (EJAE, Audrey Nuna and Rei Ami) from KPop Demon Hunters<\/em>. EJAE took home a fourth award with a best soundtrack win for KPop Demon Hunters<\/em>.<\/p>\n \n\tOther performers included lifetime achievement award recipient Billy Idol, International Artist Award of Excellence recipient\u00a0Karol G,\u00a0Hootie & the Blowfish, Katseye, Keith Urban, Maluma, Riley Green, Sombr, Teddy Swims, Teyana Taylor and Twenty One Pilots.<\/p>\n \n\tAMAs producer Dick Clark Productions is owned by Penske Media Eldridge, a three way partnership between Penske Media Corporation and Eldridge that also owns\u00a0The Hollywood Reporter.<\/em><\/p>\n \n\tHilary Lewis contributed to this report.<\/em><\/p>\n<\/div>\n <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" Recent Kids on the Block brought \u201cthe proper stuff\u201d to the 2026 American Music Awards on Monday night. The group \u2014 consisting of Jordan and Jonathan Knight, Joey McIntyre, Donnie Wahlberg and Danny Wood \u2014 hit the stage on the MGM Grand Garden Arena in Las Vegas for a live performance of their 1988 hit […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":340867,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[20669],"tags":[34041,3851,1509,1043,806],"class_list":["post-340866","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-hollywood","tag-amas","tag-block","tag-kids","tag-sing","tag-stuff"],"aioseo_notices":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/ebiztoday.news\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/340866","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/ebiztoday.news\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/ebiztoday.news\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ebiztoday.news\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ebiztoday.news\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=340866"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/ebiztoday.news\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/340866\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":340869,"href":"https:\/\/ebiztoday.news\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/340866\/revisions\/340869"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ebiztoday.news\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/340867"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/ebiztoday.news\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=340866"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ebiztoday.news\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=340866"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ebiztoday.news\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=340866"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}