Kane Brown was the only multiple winner at the 2021 CMT Music Awards, which were held Wednesday (June 9) at Bridgestone Arena in Nashville. He took two awards: male video of the year for “Worship You” and collaborative video of the year for “Famous Friends,” a collab with Chris Young.
These are Brown’s second wins in both categories. He shared the collaborative video award three years ago with Lauren Alaina for “What Ifs” and won the male video award two years ago for “Lose It.”
Brown co-hosted the show for the second year in a row, this time with Kelsea Ballerini. Ballerini also went home a winner. She and Halsey won CMT performance of the year for “The Other Girl,” which they performed on last year’s CMT Music Awards.
Here are some of the records set by this year’s CMT Music Awards winners.
Carrie Underwood won video of the year for the ninth time for “Hallelujah,” on which she teamed with John Legend. Underwood has more wins in this category than any other artist. (Taylor Swift and Keith Urban are tied for second place with three each.) This is the first time a collab video has won for video of the year. Legend is the first Black artist, and in fact the first non-country artist, to win in this category. (Oddly, the Underwood/Legend video didn’t win for collaborative video of the year. It was nominated, but lost to the Young/Brown video.)
