The full list of winners at the CMT Music Awards has been revealed.
The CMT Music Awards held this year's ceremony at Austin's Moody Center. Fans also tuned in via CBS and Paramount Studio on Sunday.
Before the award-giving ceremony started, it already made some people's names notable after unveiling the list of nominees. Lainey Wilson scored whopping four nominations, while Kane Brown, Cody Johnson, and Jelly Roll tied with three nods.
Before the ceremony started, CMT already announced Shania Twain as its recipient of the CMT Equal Pay Award. After a long wait, it formally recognized the musicians who shone the brightest in the past months.
CMT Awards 2023 Complete List of Winners
CMT Awards tapped Brown and Kelsea Ballerini as the co-hosts. It then offered performances from several A-listers, including Keith Urban, Blake Shelton, and Carrie Underwood, to name a few.
Megan Thee Stallion, Noah Schnapp, Travis Kelce, HARDY, and more presented the awards to the winners, and here is the full list of CMT Awards 2023 trophy recipients:
Video of the year - Kane Brown & Katelyn Brown - "Thank God"
Female video of the year - Lainey Wilson for "Heart Like A Truck"
Male video of the year - Jelly Roll's "Son Of A Sinner"
Group/duo video of the year - Zac Brown Band's "Out In The Middle"
Breakthrough female video of the year - Megan Moroney's "Tennessee Orange"
Breakthrough male video of the year - Jelly Roll's "Son Of A Sinner"
Collaborative video of the year - HARDY feat. Lainey Wilson's "wait in the truck"
CMT performance of the year - Cody Johnson's "'Til You Can't" (from 2022 CMT Music Awards)
CMT digital-first performance of the year - Jelly Roll - "Son of A Sinner" (from CMT All Access)
CMT equal play - Shania Twain
Shania Twain Scores Big Win at CMT Awards 2023
After Megan Thee Stallion gave Twain the Equal Play award, the crooner delivered a heartfelt acceptance speech in which she expressed how she believes in "all-inclusive country music."
"This is a genre of music with a rich history that raised and nurtured my own songwriting and performance and recording career from childhood," she said. "Currently, the industry standard does a real disservice to this."
She also pledged to continue to champion the country artists and musicians who are yet to be played and streamed and those who are yet to tour and receive the "award they deserve."
CMT Awards give the award to artists who are advocates for "elevating diverse and underrepresented voices in country music" (via Billboard).
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