May 2nd, 2012 
Carrie Underwood (Photo Credit: Image Event)
On Wednesday, June 6, 2012, Nashville will unroll the red carpet for one of its biggest nights of the year — the CMT (Country Music Television) Music Awards. In its 11th year, the CMT Awards air live from Nashville’s Bridgestone Arena downtown and honor the year’s top country music singers. The action-packed event his the only viewer-voted award show in all of country music–making it most unique and exciting for fans who can vote from now until June 4 on CMT’s website for their favorite country music videos.
The top award of the night, Video of the Year, will be awarded at the very end of the show. A shorter list of nominees will be announced at the beginning and then fans and viewers will be able to vote throughout the live broadcast to determine the ultimate winner. This year, women top nominations giving credit to the girls in country music who have made huge waves this past year. Carrie Underwood leads the pack with five awards including two nominations in the coveted Video of the Year category — her new single “Good Girl” and her duet with Brad Paisley titled “Remind Me.” Miranda Lambert (Mrs. Blake Shelton), who has been an award show favorite this past year, collected four nominations including two with her girl group Pistol Annies. This is the first time the group has been nominated for a CMT Award with their hit breakout single “Hell on Heels.”
Miranda Lambert (Photo Credit: People Zap 2 It)
It’s also no surprise that country music darling Taylor Swift is also up for Female Video of the Year with her song “Ours,” as well as Video of the Year and Collaborative Video of the Year for her collaboration with The Civil Wars, “Safe & Sound” created for the hit movie soundtrack from “The Hunger Games.“ Miss Swift has three nominations this year along with Jason Aldean, Lady Antebellum, Rascal Flatts, Blake Shelton, Thompson Square and The Civil Wars.
Perhaps most exciting are the nominees for Breakthrough Video of the Year which recognizes the genre’s newest and up-and-coming stars. Brantley Gilbert (“Country Must Be Country Wide”), Hunter Hayes (“Storm Warning”), Thompson Square (“I Got You”), and American Idol’s Lauren Alaina (“Georgia Peaches”) and 2011 winner Scotty McCreery (“The Trouble With Girls” ) top the list this year.
Nominations were officially announced on NBC’s ‘Today’ Show with Hoda Kotb and live guests Little Big Town, who are nominated themselves for Performance of the Year for their rendition of Coldplay’s “Fix You” at the Music Builds: The CMT Disaster Relief Concert show which took place last May.
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Fans vote at: cmt.com/cmt-music-awards
Full List of Nominations for the 2012 CMT Music Awards:
Video of the Year
Jason Aldean — “Dirt Road Anthem”
Kenny Chesney Featuring Grace Potter — “You and Tequila”
Toby Keith — “Red Solo Cup”
Lady Antebellum — “We Owned the Night”
Miranda Lambert – “Over You”
Brad Paisley With Carrie Underwood — “Remind Me”
Rascal Flatts Featuring Natasha Bedingfield — “Easy”
Blake Shelton — “God Gave Me You”
Taylor Swift Featuring the Civil Wars — “Safe & Sound”
Carrie Underwood — “Good Girl”
Male Video of the Year
Jason Aldean — “Dirt Road Anthem”
Luke Bryan — “I Don’t Want This Night to End”
Eric Church – “Drink in My Hand”
Toby Keith – “Red Solo Cup”
Blake Shelton – “God Gave Me You”
Keith Urban – “Long Hot Summer”
Female Video of the Year
Sara Evans — “My Heart Can’t Tell You No”
Miranda Lambert — “Over You”
Martina McBride – “I’m Gonna Love You Through It”
Kellie Pickler — “Tough”
Taylor Swift — “Ours”
Carrie Underwood – “Good Girl”
Eli Young Band — “Crazy Girl”
Lady Antebellum — “We Owned the Night”
Pistol Annies – “Hell on Heels”
Rascal Flatts — “Banjo”
The Band Perry – “All Your Life”
Zac Brown Band — “Keep Me in Mind”
Duo Video of the Year
Love and Theft — “Angel Eyes”
Montgomery Gentry — “Where I Come From”
Sugarland -- “Tonight”
The Civil Wars — “Poison and Wine”
Thompson Square — “Glass”
Thompson Square – “I Got You”
USA Weekend Breakthrough Video of the Year
Lauren Alaina – “Georgia Peaches”
Brantley Gilbert – “Country Must Be Country Wide”
Hunter Hayes — “Storm Warning”
Scotty McCreery — “The Trouble With Girls”
Pistol Annies – ”Hell on Heels”
Thompson Square – ”I Got You”
Collaborative Video of the Year
Kenny Chesney Featuring Grace Potter — “You and Tequila”
Brad Paisley With Carrie Underwood — “Remind Me”
Rascal Flatts Featuring Natasha Bedingfield — “Easy”
Lionel Richie With Shania Twain – “Endless Love”
Taylor Swift Featuring the Civil Wars -- “Safe & Sound”
Zac Brown Band Featuring Jimmy Buffett – “Knee Deep”
CMT Performance of the Year
Jason Aldean – “Tattoos on This Town” from 2011 CMT Artists of the Year
Lady Antebellum — “Dancin’ Away With My Heart” from 2011 CMT Artists of the Year
Little Big Town — “Fix You” from Music Builds: The CMT Disaster Relief Concert
Blake Shelton – “Footloose” from Invitation Only: Blake Shelton
Sting and Vince Gill — “If I Ever Lose My Faith in You” from CMT Crossroads: Sting and Vince Gill
Steven Tyler and Carrie Underwood — “Just a Dream/Dream On” from CMT Crossroads: Steven Tyler and Carrie Underwood From the Pepsi Super Bowl Fan Jam
Carrie Underwood really deserves those 5 nominations for the Country Music Television Awards, I hope she wins!