# 2010 Country Music Association Awards

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

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

| 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" |

## Presenters

| Presenter(s) | Award |
| Ty Pennington and LeAnn Rimes | Single of the Year |
| Luke Bryan and Kellie Pickler | Song of the Year |
| Darius Rucker | New Artist of the Year |
| Little Big Town | Album of the Year |
| Jeff Gordon and Joanna Garcia | Vocal Duo of the Year |
| Chris Young, Sara Evans, Easton Corbin | Vocal Group of the Year |
| Martina McBride | Male Vocalist of the Year |
| Sissy Spacek | Female Vocalist of the Year |
| Tim McGraw | Entertainer of the Year |