Kid Rock, who is a rapping rocker and country streak, hosted the show. The night was filled with intoxicated pleasures all around in the ambience and witnessed the appearances by Taylor Swift, Faith Hill, Tim McGraw, Reba McEntire and a horde of other artists. Sheryl Crow, while being impressed by the style of Kid’s anchoring the show, uttered to Rock saying, ‘Watching you host all night, well I must say that you are really natural’. In response to her comments, he responded smilingly saying, ‘I am actually having fun. In the beginning, I felt good and now I feel real good’. Kid and Crow them shook the legs together on stage and let the audience enjoy their gorgeous performance.
Video of the Year Award, which is considered to be the mega one in musical circles, went to Underwood for ‘Cowboy Casanova’. Accepting the trophy, Underwood said, ‘Wow! Amazing, awesome’.
For ‘White Liar’, Miranda Lambert was announced to be the winner of ‘Video of the Year’ award for female category beating out Underwood (Cowboy Casanova), Taylor Swift (You Belong with Me) and Reba McEntire (Consider me Gone).
Keith Urban fetched the Video of the Year award for male category for ‘Till Summer Comes Around’.
Urban and John’s due was loved by the audience. Underwood bagged the prize for CMT performance of the year for ‘Temporary Home’ from CMT special ‘Invention Only: Carrie Underwood’. Brooke & Dun grabbed the prize for Duo Video of the Year for Indian Summer. Lady Antebellum took home the prize for Group Video of the Year.