cmt music awards

The always-fun CMT Awards had a star-studded list of nominees for seven categories, including a new one for this year.

The CMT Music Awards are one of the summer's most fun TV events for country music. This year, stars showed up on the pink — not red — carpet looking casual, yet stylish and ready for a fun night of music.

Some of country's biggest stars have been announced as performers at the 2016 CMT Music Awards, including Luke Bryan, Chris Stapleton and Blake Shelton.

The announcement of the 2015 CMT Awards winners began early Wednesday night (June 10) with a couple of tomatoes.

Kristen Bell has signed on to host the CMT Music Awards for the third year in a row! The 'Frozen' star is heading to Nashville to host the 2014 awards on June 4 and she took to Twitter to express her excitement.

Nobody dominated at last night's "CMT Music Awards" . . . although CARRIE UNDERWOOD did take home two buckles . . . including Video of the Year for "Good Girl". And the forced pairing of TOBY KEITH and KRISTEN BELL as co-hosts didn't cut it, but only because Toby looked bored...

The 2012 CMT Music Awards began with a batch of country and pop collaborations before settling into a Nashville-based broadcast, featuring Music City’s best. Rascal Flatts closed the show with one of the all-time greatest mainstream rock bands however, inviting Journey on stage to sing ‘Don’t Stop Believin’.’

Right after performing ‘Good Girl,’ the gilded goddess Carrie Underwood returned to the stage to pick up her award for Video of the Year at the 2012 CMT Music Awards tonight (June 6). Country legend Alan Jackson, who revealed that he has made 54 music videos over the course of his career and pointed out the importance of the medium, presented Underwood with her buckle for the biggest award of the

Luke Bryan nabbed the buckle for Male Video of the Year at the 2012 CMT Music Awards for his cinematic clip for ‘I Don’t Want This Night to End.’ The ever-excitable singer bounded up on the stage to accept his honor as though he just downed a case of Red Bull.

Before Eric Church took the stage to perform his No. 1 single ‘Drink in My Hand’ at the 2012 CMT Music Awards, Big Kenny and John Rich introduced the singer from the middle of a screaming crowd outside the Bridgestone Arena in Nashville. The quirky duo joked that the entire performance line-up at the CMT Music Awards felt kind of like a drinking game. Still, they toasted red solo cups to Eric Chur

Lady Antebellum picked up the buckle for Group Video of the Year for ‘We Owned the Night’ at the 2012 CMT Music Awards. First, they open the show with a mashup and then they nab an award at the midpoint! It turned out to be a good night for Lady A.

The 2012 CMT Music Awards are a great place to debut new material — after all, there are thousands of country mega-fans in attendance, and thousands more sitting at home watching. That’s what Kenny Chesney must have been thinking when he played his debut live performance of ‘Come Over,’ the second single off of his upcoming album ‘Welcome to the Fishbowl.’