CMT Music Awards: Here's who took the big prizes
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Molly Driscoll Staff writer
The 2015 CMT Music Awards were a big night for Carrie Underwood, with the singer becoming the recipient of the most prizes in CMT Music Awards history and taking some of the biggest awards.聽
Underwood won the Video of the Year and Female Video of the Year prizes for her song 鈥淪omething in the Water,鈥� while she shared the collaborative video of the year award with singer Miranda Lambert for their track 鈥淪omethin鈥� Bad.鈥�
According to , Underwood has now won the most CMT Music awards ever after receiving her newest prizes. The awards are voted on by fans.聽
Male Video of the Year went to Luke Bryan for the song 鈥淧lay It Again鈥� and Group Video of the Year went to Lady Antebellum for their song 鈥淏artender.鈥� Florida Georgia Line got the Duo Video of the Year award for their song 鈥淒irt鈥� and the CMT Performance of the Year went to Jason Aldean and Bob Seger for 鈥淭urn the Page.鈥� Meanwhile, singer Sam Hunt got the Breakthrough Video of the Year award for the song 鈥淟eave the Night On.鈥� 鈥淧itch Perfect 2鈥� actress Brittany Snow and Erin Andrews of Fox Sports hosted the show.
The country genre is one that鈥檚 expanded to incorporate more and more musical styles, as noted by music critic Hunter Hauk. The genre can include, Hauk wrote, everything 鈥渇rom the infectiously poppy, hard rocking and hip-hop-infused to the good-timin' bro country and twangy traditionalists.鈥� But, Hauk wrote, the genre鈥檚 diversity doesn鈥檛 mean certain aspects of country get completely ignored. 鈥淪tyle-hopping party kings such as entertainer of the year nominees Florida Georgia Line and Luke Bryan might have tapped into a criminally large segment of the ticket-buying public for too long,鈥� he wrote. 鈥淏ut ravenous crowds still turn out and support performers repping every other flavor of country.鈥� Lambert herself told the Dallas Morning News, 鈥淲e're more popular than we've ever been as a genre because there's something for everybody.鈥�
