Save The Date For The CMT Awards

March 16th, 2010

(Dierks Bentley and his dog Jake walk the CMT Red Carpet in 2009)

It was announced today that the annual CMT Awards will be held on June 9 in Nashville. The awards show coincides with the annual CMA Music Festival which officially kicks off in Nashville on June 10. Nominees for the awards will be announced on April 5, with performers and presenters being announced at a later date.

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Save The Date For The CMT Music Awards

October 27th, 2009

For those of you who are hoping to attend the annual CMT Awards in Nashville, you can now save the date of June 9, 2010! Although it’s still too early for any of the details of the show to be announced, fans can still plan a great vacation in Music City as the CMA Music Festival kicks off the following day, June 10, 2010.

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Thanking Country Music Fans

June 23rd, 2009

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As we’ve told you befo re, every Monday morning we look forward to heading over to CMT.com to read Hazel Smith’s weekly Hot Dish article. Hazel always has a fresh take on all things country music and the underlying message in everything she writes is that no matter what, Hazel is simply a true country music lover.

This week’s article from Hazel was another great one to read as she paid tribute to the thousands and thousands of country music fans who made their way to Nashville for the annual CMA Music Festival earlier this month. Less positive thinkers may have moaned about the masses invading their city, but not Hazel… she reflects the common theme that we heard throughout the week in Nashville, that Music City was happy to welcome the country music fans with open arms. Hazel writes…

Did anybody in Nashville remember to thank the 56,000 guests who came from across the U.S. and around the world to attend the recent CMA Music Festival? Were there large white banners with red lettering that welcomed country music fans to our city? And were there goodbye banners thanking them for coming with the message, “Hope to see you next year”? If not, there should have been.

Even with the sudden storms, fans were royally entertained while sometimes being soaked to the skin. Let me humbly thank each one who came to the festival. I hope you enjoyed our town. And I hope you made it home safe and are already making plans to return in 2010 to see the biggest and best array of talent ever assembled.

Hazel went on to give a great recap of the festival as well as the CMT Awards… you can read the entire article on CMT.com and be sure to check back each Monday morning for your weekly dose of country music at it’s finest!

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Swift, Bentley Named “Best Dressed”

June 23rd, 2009

The fans have spoken again!

Taylor Swift and Dierks Bentley were voted “Best Dressed” at the 2009 CMT Music Awards Red Carpet. Swift looked fabulous (as always), showing off her sexy long legs in a mini and Bentley looked smokin’ hot as he rocked his best accessory- his dog Jake!

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2009 CMT Music Awards Rack In Ratings/ Set New Records

June 20th, 2009

Multichannel News is reporting that the 2009 CMT Music Awards drew in 2.7 million viewers which made this year’s show the third best ever showing of the event. The show was CMT’s most watched tele-cast of the year.

CMT.com received 1 million video steams the day after the show, which set a new record. Remember Taylor Swift & T-Pain’s rap video, the video that opened the CMT Music Awards? ”Thug Story” received the most streams that day.

CMT is also reporting an increase in voting responses. 7.5 million votes were cast this year, up 45% from last year’s 5 million.

CMT’s new show The Singing Bee premiered Tuesday night after the awards. The new show racked in 1.5 million viewers which makes it the most-wactched series debut in network history.

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Relive The 2009 CMT Music Awards

June 17th, 2009

You can relive the fun and excitement of the 2009 CMT Music Awards all week long!

CMT is set to air encore presentations of the show at the following times:

Wednesday. June 17th: 12pm & 9pm

Friday, June 19th: 12pm

Saturday, June 20th: 5:30pm

Sunday, June 21: 8pm

The 2009 CMT Music Awards Red Carpet Special will re-air on Saturday, June 20th at 4:30pm.

(All times listed at ET/PT)

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Adkins’ “You’re Gonna Miss This” Almost Didn’t Happen

June 17th, 2009

Trace Adkins had two nominations at last night’s CMT Music Awards for the video to “You’re Gonna Miss This,” his three week No. 1 hit single. The song was included as a bonus track on Trace’s Greatest Hits album, and he admits that the video, and even the single, almost didn’t happen. Trace recently explained “The song was just a bonus track on a greatest-hits album. It was never intended to be a single. So when we put it out as a single the folks at the record label — actually, I probably shouldn’t even tell this, but it’s true — they said `It’s not normally our policy to pay to make a video on the second song off a greatest-hits album.’ I said, `Well, I think the song needs a video,’ so we did it and the budget was incredibly low. We went back to my hometown and everybody in the video is somebody I know, a friend of mine. Everybody in the video lives in my hometown of Serepta, La. We went back there and went to my aunt’s little diner and shot some stuff there. The whole thing was done in my hometown for like $147,” he joked.

The low-budget video clearly struck a chord with fans making it one of the best videos of the year and earning nominations in the ‘Male Video of the Year’ and ‘Video of the Year’ categories. Although Trace didn’t take home either award, he delivered a great performance of the song on the live television broadcast.

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Taylor Swift’s Rap Song

June 17th, 2009

So what did you think of Taylor Swift’s rap duet with T-Pain on the CMT Awards show last night? We thought it was pretty funny and that Taylor did a great job playing that role!

If you want to hear the song again, our friend Broadway has it posted on his site where you can even download an MP3 file of the song. Check that out HERE.

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