The CMT Music Awards are a fan-voted awards presentation honoring country music videos and performances on television. Every year, the awards show is hosted in Nashville, Tennessee, and is broadcast live on CMT (Country Music Television). CMT’s website, CMT.com, is where you can vote.
History of CMT Music Awards
The Music City News Awards were first given out in 1967 by the now-defunct Music City News magazine. To celebrate the network’s fifth anniversary, The Nashville Network (TNN) launched the Viewers’ Choice Awards, fan-voted awards show. The TNN/Music City News Country Awards were formed in 1990 when the two award ceremonies merged.
The TNN/CMT Country Weekly Music Awards were broadcast simultaneously on both networks in 2001. The awards program was renamed the CMT Flameworthy Video Music Awards in 2002, after the network’s branding strategy for its most successful videos at the time.
In 2005, the show’s name was changed to CMT Music Awards, but the format remained substantially unchanged from previous years.
Due to the COVID-19 pandemic in 2020, the awards were postponed until October, and the CMA Fest for that year was canceled. The ceremony was originally scheduled for October 14 but was pushed back due to a scheduling problem with that year’s Billboard Music Awards.
ViacomCBS announced on June 28, 2021, that the CMT Music Awards would be aired on CBS beginning in 2022 and would be moved back to April. The new schedule immediately competes with the ACM Awards, which are held in April and were previously broadcast by CBS; the network later rejected to renew its contract to screen the ACM Awards, claiming viewership declines in comparison to the rights fees asked by Dick Clark Productions.
Categories of the CMT Music Awards
- Video of the Year
- Male Video of the Year
- Female Video of the Year
- Collaborative Video of the Year
- CMT Performance of the Year
CMT Awards 2022 – List of Winners and Nominees
- Video of the Year
- Winner: Jason Aldean & Carrie Underwood – “If I Didn’t Love You”
Nominees
- Brandi Carlile – “Right On Time”
- Cody Johnson – “‘Til You Can’t”
- Cole Swindell & Lainey Wilson – “Never Say Never”
- Kacey Musgraves – “justified”
- Kane Brown – “One Mississippi”
- Kelsea Ballerini feat. Kenny Chesney – “half of my hometown”
- Luke Combs – “Forever After All”
- Maren Morris – “Circles Around This Town”
- Mickey Guyton – “Remember Her Name”
- Miranda Lambert – “If I Was A Cowboy”
- Taylor Swift feat. Chris Stapleton – “I Bet You Think About Me (Taylor’s Version) (From The Vault)”
- Female Video of the Year
- Winner: Miranda Lambert – “If I Was A Cowboy”
Nominees
- Brandi Carlile – “Right On Time”
- Gabby Barrett – “Footprints On The Moon”
- Kacey Musgraves – “justified”
- Maren Morris – “Circles Around This Town”
- Mickey Guyton – “Remember Her Name”
- Tenille Arts – “Back Then, Right Now”
- Male Video of the Year
- Winner: Cody Johnson – “‘Til You Can’t”
Nominees
- Eric Church – “Heart On Fire”
- Kane Brown – “One Mississippi”
- Luke Bryan – “Waves”
- Luke Combs – “Forever After All”
- Thomas Rhett – “Country Again”
- Walker Hayes – “Fancy Like”
- Group/duo Video of the Year
- Winner: Maddie & Tae – “Woman You Got”
Nominees
- Brothers Osborne – “I’m Not For Everyone”
- Dan + Shay – “Steal My Love”
- Old Dominion – “I Was On a Boat That Day”
- Parmalee – “Take My Name”
- Zac Brown Band – “Same Boat”
- Breakthrough video of the year
- Winner: Parker McCollum – “To Be Loved By You”
Nominees
- BRELAND – “Cross Country”
- Caitlyn Smith feat. Old Dominion – “I Can’t”
- Elvie Shane – “My Boy”
- Priscilla Block – “Just About Over You”
- Tenille Arts – “Back Then, Right Now”
- Collaborative video of the year
- Winner: Jason Aldean & Carrie Underwood – “If I Didn’t Love You”
Nominees
- Carly Pearce & Ashley McBryde – “Never Wanted To Be That Girl”
- Dustin Lynch feat. MacKenzie Porter – “Thinking ‘Bout You”
- Nelly & Florida Georgia Line – “Lil Bit”
- Jimmie Allen & Brad Paisley – “Freedom Was A Highway”
- Jordan Davis feat. Luke Bryan – “Buy Dirt”
- Kelsea Ballerini feat. Kenny Chesney – “half of my hometown”
- CMT Performance of the year
- Winner: George Strait – “Is Anybody Goin’ to San Antone (from CMT GIANTS: Charley Pride)”
Nominees
- Brothers Osborne – “Muskrat Greene/Dead Man’s Curve Medley (from CMT Campfire Sessions)”
- H.E.R. feat. Chris Stapleton – “Hold On (from 2021 CMT Music Awards)”
- Kane Brown – “Three Wooden Crosses (from 2021 CMT Artists of the Year)”
- Kelsea Ballerini feat. Paul Klein of LANY – “I Quit Drinking (from 2021 CMT Music Awards)”
- Mickey Guyton feat. Gladys Knight & BRELAND – “Friendship Train (from 2021 CMT Music Awards)”
- Nelly feat. Kane Brown, Blanco Brown & BRELAND – “Ride Wit Me (from CMT Crossroads: Nelly & Friends)”
- CMT digital-first performance of the year
- Winner: Cody Johnson – “Dear Rodeo” (from CMT Campfire Sessions)
Nominees
- Brittney Spencer – “Sober & Skinny” (from CMT Campfire Sessions)
- Carly Pearce – “Dear Miss Loretta” (from CMT:60 Songs)
- Jon Pardi – “On The Other Hand / Forever and Ever, Amen” (in honor of 2021 CMT Artist of a Lifetime Randy Travis)
- Josh Turner LIVE (from CMT KickBack)
- Lainey Wilson – “Things A Man Oughta Know” (from the CMT Studio)
- Comeback song of the year
- Winner: Taylor Swift – “Love Story”
Nominees
- Alan Jackson – “Freight Train”
- Brooks & Dunn – “Neon Moon”
- Dolly Parton – “9 to 5”
- Reba McEntire – “I’m A Survivor”
- Sara Evans – “Suds in the Bucket”
- Shania Twain – “Man! I Feel Like A Woman!”
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