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 by CMA Award winners Brad Paisley and Carrie Underwood.
Miranda Lambert was the lead her nominees with 10 nods, including Album of the Year, as well as Entertainer of the Year. 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 YearAlbum 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 YearFemale 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 YearVocal 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 YearSong of the Year
  • "Need You Now" — Lady Antebellum
  • *"A Little More Country Than That" — Easton Corbin
  • *"Hillbilly Bone" — Blake Shelton featuring Trace Adkins
  • *"The House That Built Me" — Miranda Lambert
  • *"White Liar" — Miranda Lambert
  • "The House That Built Me" — Tom Douglas & Allen Shamblin
  • *"A Little More Country Than That" — Rory Lee Feek, Don Poythress & Wynn Varble
  • *"Need You Now" — Dave Haywood, Charles Kelley, Hillary Scott & Josh Kear
  • *"Toes" — Zac Brown, Wyatt Durette, John Driskell Hopkins & Shawn Mullins
  • *"White Liar" — Miranda Lambert & Natalie Hemby
    • New Artist of the YearMusician 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 YearMusical Event of the Year
  • "The House That Built Me" — Miranda Lambert
  • *"Hillbilly Bone" — Blake Shelton featuring Trace Adkins
  • *"Need You Now" — Lady Antebellum
  • *"Water" — Brad Paisley
  • *"White Liar" — Miranda Lambert
  • "Hillbilly Bone" — '''Blake Shelton featuring Trace Adkins
  • *"Bad Angel" — Dierks Bentley featuring Miranda Lambert & Jamey Johnson
  • *"Can't You See" — Zac Brown Band featuring Kid Rock
  • *"I'm Alive" — Kenny Chesney featuring Dave Matthews
  • *"Till the End" — Alan Jackson featuring Lee Ann Womack