Each year CMT Music Awards include a category for the Female Video of the Year. Fans vote on a list of pre-nominees and the final list is announced for an additional vote competition. This year’s list of Female Video of the Year finalist includes four well know ladies of country music. The four, Reba McEntire, Carrie Underwood, Miranda Lambert, and Taylor Swift have numerous hit songs on the country charts over the years and Swift and Underwood have won the Female Video of the Year category twice previously. No star has three wins in this category since the beginning of CMTs awards presentations in 2002. http://www.cmt.com/microsites/cmt-music-awards/archives/female.jhtml
This year the CMT music awards air live from the Nashville Bridgestone Arena on June 9, 2010. The show will be hosted by Kid Rock and aired on CMT beginning at 8pm Eastern time. A number of country star performers have been lined up to entertain the crowds in between announcement of music award winners. Both Miranda Lambert and Carrie Underwood who are nominated in this category have been announced as performers for the evening.
Female Video of the Year - White Liar- Miranda Lambert
2010 CMT Music Awards Female Video of the Year: Winner: White Liar -- Miranda Lambert
Nominees:
- Consider Me Gone -- Reba McEntire
- Cowboy Casanova -- Carrie Underwood
- White Liar -- Miranda Lambert
- You Belong With Me -- Taylor Swift
CMT Female Video of the Year Preliminary List
Videos nominated for the Female Video of the Year award which did not progress to the final round included newcomer Laura Bell Bundy’s Giddy On Up, the first winner in this category Martina McBride’s I Just Call You Mine, Kellie Pickler’s Didn’t You Know How Much I Loved You and Lee Ann Womack’s Solitary Thinkinhttp://www.americansongwriter.com/2010/04/2010-cmt-awards-puts-fans-in-control
Historical Winners of CMT Female Video of the Year
Winners for this CMT music award category in previous years include: http://www.cmt.com/microsites/cmt-music-awards/archives/female.jhtml
- 2009: Taylor Swift - Love Story
- 2008: Taylor Swift - Our Song
- 2007: Carrie Underwood - Before He Cheats
- 2006: Carrie Underwood - Jesus, Take the Wheel
- 2005: Gretchen Wilson - When I Think About Cheatin
- 2004: Shania Twain - Forever and For Always
- 2003: Martina McBride - Concrete Angel
- 2002: Martina McBride - Blessed
Cowboy Cassanova
Underwood’s hit song Cowboy Cassanova was used for this video and is the song behind her nomination for the Video of the Year Award and the Female Video of the Year. The song is on her Play On album and was released on Youtube in September 2009 after an unofficial leak.
Consider Me Gone
An icon in country music, Reba McEntire adds another hit video to her collection of award winning performances. The song is found on Reba’s Keep On Lovin' You album which released in August 2009. Reba’s music over the years has resulted in more than 55 million album sales and netted her 34 number one hit songs.
You Belong With Me
Country music star Taylor Swift’s song You Belong With Me released the video in June 2009. Since that time, the VEVO video on Youtube has more than 39 Million views. Swift, who has been on the country music scene since 2006, released the song as a part of the Fearless album which released in November 2008.
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Nashville's Bridgestone Arena
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June 9 at 8 p.m. ET/PT
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