{"id":18529,"date":"2019-09-17T08:11:12","date_gmt":"2019-09-17T14:11:12","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.cmt.com\/news\/?p=1811974"},"modified":"2019-09-17T08:11:12","modified_gmt":"2019-09-17T14:11:12","slug":"the-2019-cmt-artists-of-the-year-revealed","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/krky\/music-news\/the-2019-cmt-artists-of-the-year-revealed\/","title":{"rendered":"The 2019 CMT Artists of the Year, Revealed"},"content":{"rendered":"<div><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/cmt.mtvnimages.com\/uri\/mgid:ao:image:cmt.com:681845?width=1200&amp;height=675&amp;.jpg\" class=\"ff-og-image-inserted\"><\/div>\n<p><span class=\"byline\">by <span class=\"author\"><a href=\"http:\/\/www.cmt.com\/news\/author\/bonaguroa\/\" title=\"Posts by Alison Bonaguro\" rel=\"author\">Alison Bonaguro<\/a><\/span> <span class=\"date\">20m ago<\/span><\/span> <\/p>\n<p>This year\u2019s 10th Annual CMT Artists of the Year special will highlight the entire year of country music, and will honor this year\u2019s artists: <a href=\"http:\/\/www.cmt.com\/artists\/carrie-underwood\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\" target=\"_blank\">Carrie Underwood<\/a>, <a href=\"http:\/\/www.cmt.com\/artists\/dan-shay\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\" target=\"_blank\">Dan + Shay<\/a>, <a href=\"http:\/\/www.cmt.com\/artists\/kane-brown\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\" target=\"_blank\">Kane Brown<\/a>, <a href=\"http:\/\/www.cmt.com\/artists\/luke-combs\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\" target=\"_blank\">Luke Combs<\/a> and <a href=\"http:\/\/www.cmt.com\/artists\/thomas-rhett\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\" target=\"_blank\">Thomas Rhett<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>The 90-minute special will highlight the five country acts who have collectively ruled the last 12 months in country music. \u201cThese five, stand-out honorees have dominated country music this year and we look forward to paying tribute to each of them at the 10th year anniversary CMT Artists of the Year event,\u201d said Leslie Fram, CMT\u2019s Senior Vice President of Music Strategy &amp; Talent. \u201cFrom first-time honorees Dan + Shay, Kane Brown and Luke Combs to two-time honoree Thomas Rhett and now five-time honoree Carrie Underwood, this incredible collection of talent coming together at what marks a pivotal time in each of their careers promises to be a night of incredible performances and reflection.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>As in past years, the ceremony will be packed with tribute performances to each of the honorees, and will feature surprise performance collaborations and guest appearances.<\/p>\n<p>The ceremony will be broadcast live from Nashville\u2019s Schermerhorn Symphony Center on October 16 at 8pm ET\/PT.<\/p>\n<div class=\"author\">\n<div class=\"description\">Alison makes her living loving country music. She&#8217;s based in Chicago, but she&#8217;s always leaving her heart in Nashville.<\/div>\n<p> <a href=\"http:\/\/www.twitter.com\/alisonbonaguro\" target=\"_BLANK\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">@alisonbonaguro<\/a><\/div>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.cmt.com\/news\/1811974\/the-2019-cmt-artists-of-the-year-revealed\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">via:: CMT News<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>by Alison Bonaguro 20m ago This year\u2019s 10th Annual CMT Artists of the Year special will highlight the entire year of country music, and will honor this year\u2019s artists: Carrie Underwood, Dan + Shay, Kane Brown, Luke Combs and Thomas Rhett. The 90-minute special will highlight the five country acts who have collectively ruled the [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[55],"tags":[],"class_list":{"0":"post-18529","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","6":"category-music-news"},"acf":[],"publishpress_future_action":{"enabled":false,"date":"2026-06-13 14:35:57","action":"change-status","newStatus":"draft","terms":[],"taxonomy":"category","extraData":[]},"publishpress_future_workflow_manual_trigger":{"enabledWorkflows":[]},"distributor_meta":false,"distributor_terms":false,"distributor_media":false,"distributor_original_site_name":"KRKY Ski Country","distributor_original_site_url":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/krky","push-errors":false,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/krky\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/18529","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/krky\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/krky\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/krky\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/krky\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=18529"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/krky\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/18529\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/krky\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=18529"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/krky\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=18529"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/krky\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=18529"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}