Country Music Association Award for Single of the Year


The following list shows the recipients for the Country Music Association Award for Single of the Year. It was first handed out at the inaugural 1967 CMA Awards to Jack Greene for his recording of "There Goes My Everything" by Dallas Frazier. While its sister category, Song of the Year recognises the songwriters, Single of the Year is awarded to the artist. Starting in 1989 and 2016 respectively, the producer and mix engineer of the track also received an award.

Recipients

YearWinnerWorkNominees
2019 Blake Shelton"God's Country"
2018 Chris Stapleton"Broken Halos"
  • "Drinkin' Problem" - Midland
  • "Drowns the Whiskey" - Jason Aldean ft. Miranda Lambert
  • "Meant to Be" - Bebe Rexha ft. Florida Georgia Line
  • "Tequila" - Dan + Shay
    • 2017 Keith Urban"Blue Ain't Your Color"
  • "Better Man" - Little Big Town
  • "Body Like a Back Road" - Sam Hunt
  • "Dirt on My Boots" - Jon Pardi
  • "Tin Man" - Miranda Lambert
    • 2016 Thomas Rhett"Die a Happy Man"
  • "Humble and Kind" - Tim McGraw
  • "My Church" - Maren Morris
  • "Nobody to Blame" - Chris Stapleton
  • "Record Year" - Eric Church
    • 2015 Little Big Town"Girl Crush"
  • "American Kids - Kenny Chesney
  • "I Don't Dance" - Lee Brice
  • "Take Your Time" - Sam Hunt
  • "Talladega" - Eric Church
    • 2014 Miranda Lambert"Automatic"
  • "Drunk on a Plane" - Dierks Bentley
  • "Give Me Back My Hometown" - Eric Church
  • "Meanwhile Back at Mama's" - Tim McGraw ft. Faith Hill
  • "Mine Would Be You" - Blake Shelton
    • 2013 Florida Georgia Line"Cruise"
  • "Highway Don't Care" - Tim McGraw ft. Taylor Swift and Keith Urban
  • "Mama's Broken Heart" - Miranda Lambert
  • "Merry Go 'Round" - Kacey Musgraves
  • "Wagon Wheel" - Darius Rucker
    • 2012 Little Big Town"Pontoon"
  • "Dirt Road Anthem" - Jason Aldean
  • "God Gave Me You" - Blake Shelton
  • "Home" - Dierks Bentley
  • "Springsteen" - Eric Church
    • 2011 The Band Perry"If I Die Young"
  • "A Little Bit Stronger" - Sara Evans
  • "Colder Weather" - Zac Brown Band
  • "Don't You Wanna Stay" - Jason Aldean ft. Kelly Clarkson
  • "Honey Bee" - Blake Shelton
    • 2010 Lady Antebellum"Need You Now"
  • "A Little More Country Than That" - Easton Corbin
  • "Hillbilly Bone" - Blake Shelton ft. Trace Adkins
  • "The House That Built Me" - Miranda Lambert
  • "White Liar" - Miranda Lambert
    • 2009 Lady Antebellum"I Run to You"
  • "Chicken Fried" - Zac Brown Band
  • "In Color" - Jamey Johnson
  • "People Are Crazy" - Billy Currington
  • "Then" - Brad Paisley
    • 2008 George Strait"I Saw God Today"
  • "Don't Blink" - Kenny Chesney
  • "Gunpowder & Lead - Miranda Lambert
  • "Stay" - Sugarland
  • "You're Gonna Miss This" - Trace Adkins
    • 2007 Carrie Underwood"Before He Cheats"
  • "Anyway" - Martina McBride
  • "Lost in This Moment" - Big & Rich
  • "Ticks" - Brad Paisley
  • "Wrapped" - George Strait
    • 2006 Brooks & Dunn"Believe"
  • "Better Life - Keith Urban
  • "Jesus, Take the Wheel" - Carrie Underwood
  • "Summertime" - Kenny Chesney
  • "When I Get Where I'm Going" - Brad Paisley ft. Dolly Parton
    • 2005 Lee Ann Womack"I May Hate Myself in the Morning"
  • "Alcohol - Brad Paisley
  • "As Good as I Once Was" - Toby Keith
  • "Baby Girl" - Sugarland
  • "Bless the Broken Road" - Rascal Flatts
    • 2004 Tim McGraw"Live Like You Were Dying"
  • "I Love This Bar" - Toby Keith
  • "Redneck Woman" - Gretchen Wilson
  • "Remember When" - Alan Jackson
  • "Whiskey Lullaby" - Brad Paisley ft. Alison Krauss
    • 2003 Johnny Cash"Hurt"
  • "Beer for My Horses" - Toby Keith ft. Willie Nelson
  • "Celebrity - Brad Paisley
  • "Have You Forgotten?" - Darryl Worley
  • "Three Wooden Crosses" - Randy Travis
    • 2002 Alan Jackson"Where Were You "
  • "Blessed" - Martina McBride
  • "Courtesy of the Red, White and Blue" - Toby Keith
  • "Drive" - Alan Jackson
  • "I'm Gonna Miss Her" - Brad Paisley
    • 2001 The Soggy Bottom Boys"I am a Man Of Constant Sorrow"
  • "Ain't Nothing 'bout You" - Brooks & Dunn
  • "Born to Fly" - Sara Evans
  • "I'm Already There" - Lone Star
  • "One More Day" - Diamond Rio
    • 2000 Lee Ann Womack Sons of the Desert"I Hope You Dance"
    • "Breathe" - Faith Hill
    • "Buy Me a Rose" - Kenny Rogers
    • "He Didn't Have to Be" - Brad Paisley
    • "How Do You Like Me Now?!" - Toby Keith
    1999 Dixie Chicks"Wide Open Spaces"
  • "Amazed" - Lonestar
  • "Choices" - George Jones
  • "Don't Laugh at Me" - Mark Wills
  • "Please Remember Me" - Tim McGraw
    • 1998 Steve Wariner"Holes in the Floor of Heaven"
  • "A Broken Wing" - Martina McBride
  • "I Just Want to Dance with You" - George Strait
  • "This Kiss" - Faith Hill
  • "You Don't Seem to Miss Me" - Patty Loveless ft. George Jones
    • 1997 Deana Carter"Strawberry Wine"
  • "All the Good Ones Are Gone" - Pam Tillis
  • "Carried Away" - George Strait
  • "It's Your Love" - Tim McGraw ft. Faith Hill
  • "One Night at a Time" - George Strait
    • 1996 George Strait"Check Yes or No"
  • "Blue" - LeAnn Rimes
  • "Go Rest High on That Mountain" - Vince Gill
  • "My Maria" - Brooks & Dunn
  • "Time Marches On" - Tracy Lawrence
    • 1995 Alison Krauss"When You Say Nothing at All"
  • "Any Man of Mine" - Shania Twain
  • "Baby Likes to Rock It" - The Tractors
  • "Gone Country" - Alan Jackson
  • "The Keeper of the Stars" - Tracy Byrd
    • 1994 John Michael Montgomery"I Swear"
  • "Does He Love You" - Reba McEntire ft. Linda Davis
  • "Don't Take the Girl" - Tim McGraw
  • "He Thinks He'll Keep Her" - Mary Chapin Carpenter
  • "How Can I Help You Say Goodbye" - Patty Loveless
    • 1993 Alan Jackson"Chattahoochee"
  • "Ain't That Lonely Yet" - Dwight Yoakam
  • "Don't Let Our Love Start Slippin' Away" - Vince Gill
  • "I Don't Need Your Rockin' Chair" - George Jones
  • "Two Sparrows in a Hurricane" - Tanya Tucker
    • 1992 Billy Ray Cyrus"Achy Breaky Heart"
  • "I Feel Lucky" - Mary Chapin Carpenter
  • "Look at Us" - Vince Gill
  • "Love, Me" - Collin Raye
  • "Maybe It Was Memphis" - Pam Tillis
    • 1991 Garth Brooks"Friends in Low Places"
  • "Don't Rock the Jukebox" - Alan Jackson
  • "Don't Tell Me What to Do" - Pam Tillis
  • "Here's a Quarter " - Travis Tritt
  • "Pocket Full of Gold" - Vince Gill
    • 1990 Vince Gill"When I Call Your Name"
  • "Here in the Real World" - Alan Jackson
  • "If Tomorrow Never Comes" - Garth Brooks
  • "Killin' Time" - Clint Black
  • "Where've You Been" - Kathy Mattea
    • 1989 Keith Whitley"I'm No Stranger to the Rain"
  • "A Better Man" - Clint Black
  • "After All This Time" - Rodney Crowell
  • "Chiseled in Stone" - Vern Gosdin
  • "I'll Leave This World Loving You" - Ricky Van Shelton
    • 1988 Kathy Mattea"Eighteen Wheels and a Dozen Roses"
  • "Do Ya" - K. T. Oslin
  • "I Told You So" - Randy Travis
  • "Somebody Lied" - Ricky Van Shelton
  • "Tennessee Flat Top Box" - Rosanne Cash
    • 1987 Randy Travis"Forever and Ever, Amen"
  • "All My Ex's Live in Texas" - George Strait
  • "Can't Stop My Heart from Loving You" - The O'Kanes
  • "The Right Left Hand" - George Jones
  • "Walk the Way the Wind Blows" - Kathy Mattea
    • 1986 Dan Seals"Bop"
  • "Grandpa " - The Judds
  • "Nobody in His Right Mind Would've Left Her" - George Strait
  • "On the Other Hand" - Randy Travis
  • "Whoever's in New England" - Reba McEntire
    • 1985 The Judds"Why Not Me"
  • "Baby's Got Her Blue Jeans On" - Mel McDaniel
  • "Country Boy" - Ricky Skaggs
  • "Does Fort Worth Ever Cross Your Mind" - George Strait
  • "Highwayman" - The Highwaymen
    • 1984 Anne Murray"A Little Good News"
  • "Holding Her and Loving You" - Earl Thomas Conley
  • "Islands in the Stream" - Kenny Rogers ft. Dolly Parton
  • "Mama He's Crazy" - The Judds
  • "To All the Girls I've Loved Before" - Willie Nelson ft. Julio Iglesias
    • 1983 John Anderson"Swingin'"
  • "Heartbroken" - Ricky Skaggs
  • "I Always Get Lucky with You" - George Jones
  • "I.O.U." - Lee Greenwood
  • "Pancho and Lefty" - Merle Haggard ft. Willie Nelson
    • 1982 Willie Nelson"Always on My Mind"
  • "Crying My Heart Out Over You" - Ricky Skaggs
  • "I'm Gonna Hire a Wino to Decorate Our Home" - David Frizzell
  • "It Turns Me Inside Out" - Lee Greenwood
  • "Love in the First Degree" - Alabama
    • 1981 Oak Ridge Boys"Elvira"
  • "I Believe in You" - Don Williams
  • "I Was Country When Country Wasn't Cool" - Barbara Mandrell
  • "Old Flame" - Alabama
  • "Somebody's Knockin'" - Terri Gibbs
    • 1980 George Jones"He Stopped Loving Her Today"
  • "All the Gold in California" - Larry Gatlin and The Gatlin Brothers
  • "Coward of the County" - Kenny Rogers
  • "Good Ole Boys Like Me" - Don Williams
  • "In America" - Charlie Daniels Band
    • 1979 Charlie Daniels Band"The Devil Went Down to Georgia"
  • "Amanda" - Waylon Jennings
  • "If Loving You Is Wrong " - Barbara Mandrell
  • "The Gambler" - Kenny Rogers
  • "You Needed Me" - Anne Murray
    • 1978 The Kendalls"Heaven's Just a Sin Away"
  • "Blue Bayou" - Linda Ronstadt
  • "Here You Come Again" - Dolly Parton
  • "Mammas Don't Let Your Babies Grow Up to Be Cowboys" - Waylon Jennings ft. Willie Nelson
  • "Take This Job and Shove It" - Johnny Paycheck
    • 1977 Kenny Rogers"Lucille"
  • "It Was Almost Like a Song" - Ronnie Milsap
  • "Luckenbach, Texas" - Waylon Jennings
  • "Margaritaville" - Jimmy Buffett
  • "Southern Nights" - Glen Campbell
    • 1976 Waylon Jennings Willie Nelson"Good Hearted Woman"
    1975 Freddy Fender"Before the Next Teardrop Falls"
  • "Another Somebody Done Somebody Wrong Song" - B. J. Thomas
  • "I'm Not Lisa" - Jessi Colter
  • "Rhinestone Cowboy" - Glen Campbell
  • "Thank God I'm a Country Boy" - John Denver
    • 1974 Cal Smith"Country Bumpkin"
  • "As Soon as I Hang Up the Phone" - Conway Twitty and Loretta Lynn
  • "If You Love Me " - Olivia Newton-John
  • "The Most Beautiful Girl" - Charlie Rich
  • "The Streak" - Ray Stevens
    • 1973 Charlie Rich"Behind Closed Doors"
  • " Watermelon Wine" - Tom T. Hall
  • "Satin Sheets" - Jeanne Pruett
  • "The Lord Knows I'm Drinking" - Cal Smith
  • "Why Me Lord" - Kris Kristofferson
    • 1972 Donna Fargo"The Happiest Girl in the Whole U.S.A."
  • "Four in the Morning" - Faron Young
  • "Kiss an Angel Good Mornin'" - Charley Pride
  • "One's on the Way" - Loretta Lynn
  • "To Get to You" - Jerry Wallace
    • 1971 Sammi Smith"Help Me Make It Through the Night"
  • "Amos Moses" - Jerry Reed
  • "Easy Loving" - Freddie Hart
  • " Rose Garden" - Lynn Anderson
  • "When You're Hot, You're Hot" - Jerry Reed
    • 1970 Merle Haggard"Okie from Muskogee"
  • "The Fightin' Side of Me" - Merle Haggard
  • "Hello Darlin'" - Conway Twitty
  • " Afraid of Losing You Again" - Charley Pride
  • "My Woman, My Woman, My Wife" - Marty Robbins
    • 1969 Johnny Cash"A Boy Named Sue"
  • "All I Have to Offer You " - Charley Pride
  • "Daddy Sang Bass" - Johnny Cash
  • "Galveston" - Glen Campbell
  • "Games People Play" - Freddy Weller
    • 1968 Jeannie C. Riley"Harper Valley PTA"
  • "By the Time I Get to Phoenix" - Glen Campbell
  • "D-I-V-O-R-C-E" - Tammy Wynette
  • "Folsom Prison Blues" - Johnny Cash
  • "Honey" - Bobby Goldsboro
    • 1967 Jack Greene"There Goes My Everything"
  • "Danny Boy" - Ray Price
  • "It's Such a Pretty World Today" - Wynn Stewart
  • "Ode to Billie Joe" - Bobbie Gentry
  • "The Fugitive" - Merle Haggard