The 2010 CMA Music Video of the Year winner, "The House That Built Me" by Miranda Lambert, was be the 25th recipient of the award.http://www.cmaawards.com/nominees/category.aspx The Music Video of the Year category was added to the awards in 1985 and with the exception of 1988 has been given annually since then.http://www.cmaawards.com/past-winners/ByCategory.aspx?categoryId=4 The 2010 award was given at the 44th annual Country Music Association Awards event on November 10, 2010, at the Bridgestone Arena in Nashville, Tennessee.http://www.pitchengine.com/tickets-for-the-44th-annual-cma-awards-will-go-on-sale-sept-18/84944/

The country music awards event was hosted by Brad Paisley, who won Entertainer of the Year in 2010, and the current reigning Academy of Country Music Entertainer of the Year, Carrie Underwood. Paisley and Underwood returned to the stage for their third year of hosting the CMA Awards.http://www.pitchengine.com/tickets-for-the-44th-annual-cma-awards-will-go-on-sale-sept-18/84944/

• "Hillbilly Bone" by Blake Shelton featuring Trace Adkins
• "Need You Now" by Lady Antebellum
• "The House That Built Me" by Miranda Lambert -- WINNER
• "Water" by Brad Paisley
• "White Liar" by Miranda Lamberthttp://www.cmaawards.com/nominees/category.aspx

When the first CMA for Music Video of the Year was given, Hank WIlliams, Jr. was the winner for his video of the song "All My Rowdy Friends Are Comin' Over Tonight". WIlliams won the first award in 1985, and was the winner again in 1987 and 1988. The three wins by Hank Williams Jr. is topped only by Brad Paisley who won this category in 2002, 2004, 2007 and 2008. In addition to his four previous wins, Paisley has been nominated for the Music Video of the Year nine of the last ten years.http://www.cmaawards.com/past-winners/ByCategory.aspx?categoryId=4

A year by year look at the artist and song which have been chosen as the Music Video of the Year shows the following:

• 2010 - Miranda Lambert, "The House That Built Me"
• 2009 - Taylor Swift, "Love Story"
• 2008 - Brad Paisley, "Waitin’ on a Woman"
• 2007 - Brad Paisley, "Online"
• 2006 - Brooks & Dunn, "Believe"
• 2005 - Toby Keith, "As Good As I Once Was"
• 2004 - Alison Krauss and Brad Paisley, "Whiskey Lullaby"
• 2003 - Johnny Cash, "Hurt"
• 2002 - Brad Paisley, "I'm Gonna Miss Her (The Fishin' Song) "
• 2001 - Sara Evans, "Born To Fly"
• 2000 - Dixie Chicks, "Goodbye Earl"
• 1999 - Dixie Chicks, "Wide Open Spaces"
• 1998 - Faith Hill, "This Kiss"
• 1997 - Kathy Mattea, "455 Rocket"
• 1996 - Junior Brown, "My Wife Thinks You're Dead"
• 1995 - The Tractors, "Baby Likes To Rock It"
• 1994 - Martina McBride, "Independence Day"
• 1993 - Alan Jackson, "Chattahoochee"
• 1992 - Alan Jackson, "Midnight In Montgomery"
• 1991 - Garth Brooks, "The Thunder Rolls"
• 1990 - Garth Brooks, "The Dance"
• 1989 - Hank Williams, Jr. and Hank Williams, Sr., "There's A Tear In My Beer"
• 1987 - Hank Williams, Jr., "My Name Is Bocephus"
• 1986 - George Jones, "Who's Gonna Fill Their Shoes"
• 1985 - Hank Williams, Jr., "All My Rowdy Friends Are Comin' Over Tonight"http://www.cmaawards.com/past-winners/ByCategory.aspx?categoryId=4