2024 CMT Music Awards Final 6 Video Of the Year Nominees

Author Nancy Brooks // Country Writer, Beasley Media Group

April 1st 1:22 PM

The 2024 CMT Music Awards’ final six videos in the coveted Video of the Year category were announced this morning (4/1), and for the first me in an long time, a video from Carrie Underwood is not in the final six.

Carrie Underwood’s CMT Reign

Carrie has won more Video of the Year awards than any other artist, winning the top CMT Music Award prize for the first time in 2007 for “Before He Cheats.” She also won the award in 2010, 2012, 2013, 2014, 2015, 2019, 2020, 2021, and 2022. Carrie was nominated in the top six in 2023 for “Hate My Heart.” She lost last year to Kane Brown and Katelyn Brown for their “Thank God” video.

Carrie, in 20201, won the CMT Music Awards’s Video of the Year.
Photo – Erika Goldring 

2024 CMT Music Award’s Final Six

The final six CMT Music Videos of the Year vying for the top honor at Sunday night (4/7) show are:

• Ashley McBryde – “Light On In the Kitchen”
• Cody Johnson – “The Painter”
• HARDY – “Truck Bed”
• Jelly Roll – “Need A Favor”
• Kelsea Ballerini – “If You Go Down (I’m Goin’ Down Too)”
• Lainey Wilson – “Watermelon Moonshine”

The fan-voted CMT Music Awards will air live from Austin, Texas’ Moody Center on CBS on Sunday, April 7th (8:00-11:00 PM, ET/PT).

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The 2023 CMT Music Awards was Jelly Roll’s breakout moment in country music, and the first award show he had ever attended, and he won three awards that night. So, Jelly posted a video to his Instagram telling fans about that evening and looking ahead to the CMT Music Awards 2024, which take place April 7.

That Big Night

In a video he posted, Jelly said, “Remember the CMT awards last year? I’ll never forget it, baby. It was our welcome party into country music. I don’t know if you all know all the details, but let me just give you the highlights. We went three for three; we won all three awards. We introduced the world to ‘Need A Favor’ that night.”

Behind The Scenes

He continued, “See, what ya’ll don’t know is that behind the scenes, that was like our welcoming party to country music. We had never been to an event at that time. It was the first award show we got invited to, and lucky for us, it was a voted awards show.”

“Let’s Recreate History”

Jelly added, “It’s back again this year, and we are back up for three awards again, baby. We can do it again with your help. CMT.com, the voting poll, is open. I think you can vote every day. Please, ya’ll. This was truly one of the launch pads that made last year the greatest year of my career. Let’s recreate history magic again. I love ya’ll.”

Fans can vote for the winners of the 2024 CMT Music Awards here.

5 of Carrie Underwood's Outstanding Music Videos

• "Before He Cheats" (2007)

  It’s such a fantastic music video for what is one of her greatest songs. In the award-winning video CMT (it won 2007 Video of The Year), Carrie is seen leaving a parking lot brandishing a Louisville Slugger, having just vandalized her boyfriend’s truck for cheating on her. As the video progresses, Underwood takes the stage to sing as various objects behind her, such as lamps, are seen exploding.

  At one point, a screenshot of the truck’s front seat is seen with Underwood’s name carved in it. Eventually, she catches up with her cheating boyfriend with the other woman. After looking shocked for a second, she scoffs and drops the keys to his now-demolished truck into his drink.

  In her Las Vegas reflections show, she sings the song as a silver Jeep is lowered to the stage and catches on fire. Dancers carrying baseball bats (Louisville Sluggers) dance around her.

• "Blown Away" (2013)

  I’m not gonna lie; this song is one of my five favorite songs of all time. The music video won the CMT Music Video of the Year honor in 2013 and is just as powerful. Carrie said that when she first heard the song, she already had ideas for a possible video for it and wanted it to be a dark Wizard of Oz. She noted at the time (2012) that it was “a visual song.” She added, “It’s so dramatic. I’m not a drama person, but when you can make a movie in song form in three-and-a-half minutes, it’s surreal.”

  When asked if her aim in the video was to generate controversy with the storyline, she said that it was not what she was aiming for at all. She said, “I try to avoid controversy in any form or fashion. It was just such a great story and such a mini-movie, listening to the song, and we really wanted to do it justice in the video.”

• "Somethin' In The Water" (2014)

  Underwood is not afraid to show her religious side, and she does just that in “Somethin’ In The Water.” This music video was named Video of the Year by CMT in 2015.

  For the music video, Carrie performed with dancers from the Shaping Sound Dance Academy dancing in the background and required 16 choir members, 12 dancers, three costume changes, and a custom-built tank of recycled water to create the “dance spectacle.”

  She co-wrote the song and gave the song its title.

• "Cry Pretty" (2019

  This song was the title cut from her album in 2019 and the name of her headlining tour that she did to promote the album. She co-wrote the song with Nashville power songwriters Hillary Lindsey, Lori McKenna, and Liz Rose. Fans know Rose because of her credits for her co-writing with Taylor Swift.

  The music video won the CMT Music Awards Video of the Year honor in 2019 and shows Underwood on stage and backstage. For the video and the tour, eye stickers were created under her eyes that show tears and glitter. Carrie wore them on stage, in the music video and of course the album’s cover.

  Carrie shows off her impressive acting skills in the music video as she weeps, sings, and tells the story of a woman in pain faking her happiness and noting that you can’t “Cry Pretty.”

• "Cowboy Casanova" (2010)

  This was the CMT Music Awards Video of the Year in 2010. The music video features Underwood and her entourage, who are all wearing flapper party gowns. In the clip, she warns everyone about smooth-talking, attractive men and their true intentions.

  The man in the video has designs on Carrie’s character in the video. In the end, along with her empowered entourage, she has a showdown with the man in a back alley and defiantly spurns his advances, leading him to give up and walk away.

  The was Underwood’s first choreographed video.

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Author Nancy Brooks // Country Writer, Beasley Media Group

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