Nominations for the CMT Music Awards, country’s answer to the MTV VMAs, were announced today, and several talent competition alums and judges are represented. The fan-voted awards are scheduled to air live on CMT on Wednesday 6/4. Last year’s winner for Video Of The Year Carrie Underwood is nominated for Video Of The Year and Female Video Of The Year for “See You Again.” Voice and CMT docudrama alum Cassadee Pope slips into a filler spot in Female Video Of The Year as well as the Breakthrough Video category with “Wasting All These Tears.” Looks like fellow Voice alum Danielle Bradbery will be made to wait until next year to figure into the nominations.
Collaborations pad the nominations totals for talent show coaches/judges Blake Shelton and Keith Urban, who score 3 and 4 nominations respectively. Speaking of collaborations and those 2 guys, slumming through “Boys Round Here” and singing “We Were Us” pushes Miranda Lambert to leading 6 nominations. Florida Georgia Line and Luke Bryan also benefit from collaborations (though our ears don’t), with 5 nominations apiece.
Check out the nominations for this year’s show below:
Video Of The Year (the final 6 nominees will be announced during the live telecast)
Blake Shelton Featuring Pistol Annies, “Boys Round Here”
Carrie Underwood, “See You Again”
Eric Church, “Give Me Back My Hometown”
Florida Georgia Line Featuring Luke Bryan, “This Is How We Roll”
Hunter Hayes, “I Want Crazy”
Kacey Musgraves, “Follow Your Arrow”
Keith Urban With Miranda Lambert, “We Were Us”
Luke Bryan, “That’s My Kind Of Night”
Miranda Lambert, “Automatic”
Taylor Swift, “Red”
Thomas Rhett, “It Goes Like This”
Tim McGraw With Taylor Swift & Keith Urban, “Highway Don’t Care”
Female Video Of The Year
Carrie Underwood, “See You Again”
Cassadee Pope, “Wasting All These Tears”
Kacey Musgraves, “Follow Your Arrow”
Miranda Lambert, “Automatic”
Sheryl Crow, “Easy”
Taylor Swift, “Red”
Male Video Of The Year
Blake Shelton, “Doin’ What She Likes”
Eric Church, “Give Me Back My Hometown”
Hunter Hayes, “I Want Crazy”
Jason Aldean, “Night Train”
Luke Bryan, “Crash My Party”
Randy Houser, “Runnin Outta Moonlight”
Group Video Of The Year
Eli Young Band, “Drunk Last Night”
Lady Antebellum, “Compass”
Little Big Town, “Your Side Of The Bed”
Rascal Flatts, “Rewind”
The Band Perry, “DONE.”
Zac Brown Band, “Sweet Annie”
Duo Video Of The Year
Dan+Shay, “19 You + Me”
Florida Georgia Line, “Round Here”
Florida Georgia Line, “Stay”
Thompson Square, “Everything I Shouldn’t Be Thinking About”
Breakthrough Video Of The Year
Brett Eldredge, “Beat Of The Music”
Cassadee Pope, “Wasting All These Tears”
Cole Swindell, “Chillin It”
David Nail, “Whatever She’s Got”
Thomas Rhett, “It Goes Like This”
Tyler Farr, “Redneck Crazy”
Collaborative Video Of The Year
Hunter Hayes Featuring Jason Mraz, “Everybody’s Got Somebody But Me”
Keith Urban With Miranda Lambert, “We Were Us”
Tim McGraw With Taylor Swift & Keith Urban, “Highway Don’t Care”
Blake Shelton Featuring Pistol Annies, “Boys Round Here”
Florida Georgia Line Featuring Luke Bryan, “This Is How We Roll”
Florida Georgia Line Featuring Nelly, “Cruise (Remix)”
Performance Of The Year
Lady Antebellum/Stevie Nicks, “Rhiannon” (CMT Crossroads)
The Band Perry/Fall Out Boy, “My Songs Know What You Did In The Dark” (CMT Crossroads)
Willie Nelson/Neil Young, “Long May You Run” (CMT Crossroads)
Dierks Bentley/One Republic, “Counting Stars” (CMT Crossroads)
Jake Owen, “Days Of Gold” (CMT Hot 20 Countdown Performance)
Luke Bryan/Lionel Richie, “Oh No”/”All Night Long” (CMT Artists Of The Year)
You can vote for this year’s CMT Awards starting today and through midnight June 1st at CMT.com.
