Carrie Underwood leads CMT Music Awards nominations with five
New mum Carrie Underwood has been given another reason to celebrate after landing five nominations for the 2015 CMT Music Awards.
The singer, who welcomed her first child in February (15), scored double nods in two separate categories - Something in the Water and her Miranda Lambert duet Somethin' Bad are up for Video of the Year, while she will compete against herself for Female Video of the Year, as Little Toy Guns and Something in the Water are both shortlisted for the honour.
Somethin' Bad landed Underwood her fifth nod for Collaborative
Video of the Year.
Lady Antebellum, who helped to announce the first three groups of
nominees on breakfast show Today on Wednesday (13May15), and Kenny
Chesney notched up three nods apiece, including Video of the Year
for their respective hits Bartender and American Kids, which also
landed Chesney a Male Video of the Year nod. The singer and the
song will compete with Play It Again by Luke Bryan, Keith Urban's
Somewhere in My Car and Jason Aldean's Burnin' It Down, while
Lambert's Little Red Wagon and Reba McEntire's Going Out Like That
join Underwood as Female Video of the Year contenders, and Lady
Antebellum's Bartender will go up for Group Video of the Year
alongside Little Big Town's Day Drinking and Chainsaw by The Band
Perry, among others.
Meanwhile, a number of non-country artists also feature among the
2015 nominations for CMT Performance of the Year - John Legend is
shortlisted for his rendition of You & I (Nobody in the World) with
Lee Ann Womack, while Katy Perry's version of Roar with Kacey
Musgraves and Aloe Blacc and Lady Antebellum's Wake Me Up duet will
also compete for the title.
The winners will be decided by public vote and revealed during the
CMT Music Awards, which will take place in Nashville, Tennessee on
10 June (15).