CMT Awards 2020: Carrie Underwood Remains Top Awarded Artist in History of the Awards Carrie Underwood remains the most decorated artist in “CMT Music Awards” history with her two wins of the night, bringing her career total to 22 wins. Underwood’s two wins make her the show’s biggest winner of the night. This was Underwood’s eighth career win in the show’s video of the year category, which is the record, for her hit “Drinking Alone.” “Oh my gosh, thank you so much,” Underwood said while accepting the award remotely. “Wow. Fans, you guys never cease to amaze me at how hard you work. I saw you guys throwing Twitter parties and doing your thing and voting — thank you so much. This one is really all about you guys, especially because we haven’t been together. I feel so loved this evening so thank you guys so much.” She beat out fellow nominees Keith Urban and Tanya Tucker for the biggest award, which was voted on by fans. “Of course all the
winners and nominees tonight, this is something that’s so fun for us to visually bring our songs to life so thank you for all of the support and all of the fans who have been voting for everybody,” she added. “We all feel loved tonight. Thank you [director] Randy St. Nicholas for this video and how much fun it was and how easy it always is just to do what we do, and like I said, bring it to life in a visual way. Thank you CMT for putting these awards on and, again, the love — it’s all about the love. So thank you guys so much. God bless you and hope to see you all soon.”
new single “Heaven Down Here.”
Underwood previously won video of the year for “Before He Cheats” (2007), “Cowboy Casanova” (2010), “Good Girl” (2012), “Blown Away” (2013), “See You Again” (2014), “Something in the Water” (2015) and, most recently, “Cry Pretty”(2019).
Little Big Town brought the party to Ruskin Cave in Dickson, Tenn. with the dazzling, show finale performance of “Wine, Beer, Whiskey” off their latest album Nightfall.
GRAMMY-winning artist and entertainer Jennifer Nettles accepted the first ever “CMT Equal Play Award” for her ongoing advocacy for women and diverse voices in the country music industry and beyond. Luke Combs and Brooks & Dunn kicked off the night with a bang with their first ever performance of “1, 2 Many.” Kelsea Ballerini and Halsey shut down the dive bar with the first televised performance of “The Other Girl.” Jimmie Allen and Noah Cyrus united for an electrifying first ever performance of their brand new single “This is Us.” Thirteen years after accepting the award herself, Taylor Swift introduced Gabby Barrett as the “Breakthrough Video of the Year” winner. Kane Brown took over downtown Nashville for his first ever televised performance of “Worship You.” Morgan Wallen mesmerized with his first-ever televised performance of his hit single “Chasing You” off his latest album If I Know Me. Breakout superstar Mickey Guyton performed her first televised performance of her heart wrenching
Sparks few when Gabby Barrett took to downtown Nashville’s Bicentennial Mall with her #1 single “I Hope.” Country outlaw and CMT Music Awards co-host Ashley McBryde brought the heat for her first televised performance of her new single “Martha Divine” off her latest album Never Will. Luke Bryan lit up the night with his hit single “What She Wants Tonight” off his latest album Born Here Live Here Die Here.
VIDEO OF THE YEAR Carrie Underwood - “Drinking Alone” FEMALE VIDEO OF THE YEAR Carrie Underwood - “Drinking Alone” MALE VIDEO OF THE YEAR Luke Bryan - “One Margarita” GROUP VIDEO OF THE YEAR Old Dominion - “One Man Band” DUO VIDEO OF THE YEAR Dan + Shay - “I Should Probably Go To Bed” BREAKTHROUGH VIDEO OF THE YEAR Gabby Barrett - “I Hope” COLLABORATIVE VIDEO OF THE YEAR Blake Shelton with Gwen Stefani “Nobody But You” CMT PERFORMANCE OF THE YEAR From CMT Artists of the Year: Chris Young - “Drowning” CMT EQUAL PLAY AWARD Jennifer Nettles **QUARANTINE VIDEO OF THE YEAR (SOCIAL ONLY AWARD) Granger Smith - “DON’T COUGH ON ME!”
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