2010 Country Music Association Awards Explained

2010 Country Music Association Awards
Location:	Bridgestone Arena, Nashville, Tennessee, U.S.
Host:	Brad Paisley Carrie Underwood
Network:	ABC
Main:	CMA
Previous:	2009
Next:	2011
Most Wins:	Miranda Lambert (3)
Most Nominations:	Miranda Lambert (9)

The 2010 Country Music Association Awards, 44th Annual Ceremony, is a music award ceremony that was held on November 10, 2010, at the Bridgestone Arena in Nashville, Tennessee and the show was hosted for the third time by Brad Paisley and Carrie Underwood.

Background

Miranda Lambert was the lead nominee with 9 total. Lambert broke a record for most CMA nominations ever received by a female artist in a single year.

Winners and nominees

^[1] Winners are shown in bold.

Entertainer of the Year	Album of the Year
Brad Paisley Lady Antebellum Miranda Lambert Keith Urban Zac Brown Band	Revolution — Miranda Lambert Need You Now — Lady Antebellum Play On — Carrie Underwood Twang — George Strait Up on the Ridge — Dierks Bentley
Male Vocalist of the Year	Female Vocalist of the Year
Blake Shelton Dierks Bentley Brad Paisley George Strait Keith Urban	Miranda Lambert Martina McBride Reba McEntire Taylor Swift Carrie Underwood
Vocal Group of the Year	Vocal Duo of the Year
Lady Antebellum Little Big Town Rascal Flatts The Band Perry Zac Brown Band	Sugarland Brooks & Dunn Joey + Rory Montgomery Gentry Steel Magnolia
Single of the Year	Song of the Year (Songwriters' Award)
"Need You Now" — Lady Antebellum "A Little More Country Than That" — Easton Corbin "Hillbilly Bone" — Blake Shelton and Trace Adkins "The House That Built Me" — Miranda Lambert "White Liar" — Miranda Lambert	"The House That Built Me" — Tom Douglas and Allen Shamblin "A Little More Country Than That" — Rory Lee Feek, Don Poythress and Wynn Varble "Need You Now" — Dave Haywood, Charles Kelley, Hillary Scott and Josh Kear "Toes" — Zac Brown, Wyatt Durrette III, John Driskell Hopkins and Shawn Mullins "White Liar" — Miranda Lambert and Natalie Hemby
New Artist of the Year	Musician of the Year
Zac Brown Band Luke Bryan Easton Corbin Jerrod Niemann Chris Young	Mac McAnally Paul Franklin Dan Huff Brent Mason Randy Scruggs
Music Video of the Year	Musical Event of the Year
"The House That Built Me" — Miranda Lambert "Hillbilly Bone" — Blake Shelton and Trace Adkins "Need You Now" — Lady Antebellum "Water" — Brad Paisley "White Liar" — Miranda Lambert	"Hillbilly Bone" — Blake Shelton and Trace Adkins "Bad Angel" — Dierks Bentley, Miranda Lambert and Jamey Johnson "Can't You See" — Zac Brown Band and Kid Rock "I'm Alive" — Kenny Chesney and Dave Matthews "Till the End" — Alan Jackson and Lee Ann Womack

Performers

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Artist(s)	Song(s)
Carrie Underwood Brad Paisley Keith Urban	"Songs Like This"
Rascal Flatts	"Why Wait"
Blake Shelton	"All About Tonight"
Miranda Lambert	"That’s The Way The World Goes ‘Round"
George Strait	"The Breath You Take"
Zac Brown Band Alan Jackson	"As She’s Walking Away"
Kenny Chesney	"The Boys of Fall"
Taylor Swift	"Back to December"
Sugarland	"Stuck Like Glue"
Keith Urban	"Put You in a Song"
Reba McEntire	"If I Were a Boy"
Jason Aldean Kelly Clarkson	"Don’t You Wanna Stay?"
Brad Paisley	"This Is Country Music"
Lady A	"Hello World"
Kid Rock	"Born Free"
Carrie Underwood	"Mama’s Song"
Dierks Bentley	"Up On the Ridge"
Miranda Lambert Sheryl Crow Loretta Lynn	"Coal Miner’s Daughter"
Vince Gill Gwyneth Paltrow	"Country Strong"

Notes and References

1. Web site: 2011 CMA Awards Winners. The Boot. 10 November 2011 .
2. Web site: 2010-11-11 . CMA Awards 2010 live: All the performances as they happen . 2023-09-02 . Los Angeles Times . en-US.