Some of the biggest stars in Country Music will be performing on June 9th at this year’s CMT Music Awards. This year’s event will be co-hosted by Kelsea Ballerini and Kane Brown with performances by Carrie Underwood, Luke Bryan, and Mickey Guyton, who will be performing with both BRELAND and music legend Gladys Knight. The 2021 CMT Music Awards will air at 8 pm Eastern Time on CMT, but you don’t need cable to watch. Read on to learn how to watch this year’s CMT Musics Awards.
- When Do The CMT Music Awards Air: Wednesday, June 9th at 8 p.m. ET
- What Network airs the ACM Music Awards: CMT
- Easiest Way to Watch CMT Music Awards: Stream them as they air on CMT with Philo (7-day free trial)
- Watch On-Demand: You can record the CMT Music Awards using Philo’s cloud DVR
Watching The CMT Music Awards without Cable
You don’t need cable to watch this year’s CMT Music Awards, you just need a streaming service that carries CMT. Then you can watch the CMT Music Awards on the air. Read on to learn how to stream this years CMT Music awards.
Philo
Philo is a great option for watching the CMT Music Awards CMT Live online. Philo provides CMT and 60+ other channels for $25/month. You can check out a free trial and see if the service will meet your needs. Philo also includes a cloud DVR for you to record shows to watch later.
Sign Up For A Free Trial To Philo
Philo supports the Apple iPhone and iPad (running iOS 9 or newer), Android phones and tablets (running 5.0 or newer), Fire TV, Apple TV, Roku, and Chromecast. In Addition, you can use your Philo credentials to sign in and watch through the CMT app. See our review of Philo for more details and information on all the channels available on Philo. Once you sign up, download the Philo app to your supported device, and you can watch the CMT Music Awards just like you could if you had cable.
Hulu Live TV
Hulu is known for its vast on-demand streaming library. However, they also offer Hulu Live TV service, which includes live CMT Streaming and most top channels typically found on cable. Hulu Live TV starts at $64.99 after a 7-day free trial and includes the following features:
- Over 60 live Channels including CMT
- The basic package comes with 50 hours of cloud DVR storage. (Upgrades available)
- Watch on 2 screens at once. (Upgrades available)
- It comes with 6 customizable profiles
- Includes entire Hulu On-Demand streaming library
With Hulu Live TV, you can watch CMT on Roku, Amazon Fire TV, Amazon Fire TV Stick, Apple TV, Chromecast, and more. See our review of Hulu for more information.
FuboTV
FuboTV is an excellent place to go for sports, but it offers many other channels, including CMT. Over 90 channels are offered in its basic package for $64.99/month (after 7-day free trial). The FuboTV app is available on major platforms, including AppleTV, AndroidTV, Roku, and Amazon FireTV. You can sign up for a 1-week free trial or check out our review of FuboTV for more details.
Sling TV
CMT is not in Sling’s base packages. However, you can get CMT through the Orange or the Blue package By adding the “Comedy Extra” add-on package for an additional $6 per month on top of $35 for one of Sling’s base packages.
Sling TV provides a live stream of CMT so you can watch what would be airing on CMT, just as if you had cable. A Cloud DVR program is included.
Sling TV is available on Roku, Amazon Fire TV, Chromecast, and more, so it’s not a problem to enjoy it on a TV, tablet, computer, or other smart devices. There are more channels than I’ve mentioned available on Sling TV than what I’ve discussed here. To find out more about Sling TV offers and more information about Sling TV device compatibility, check out this detailed review of Sling TV or check out the service with this promotion for new subscribers.
Vidgo
Vidgo is a newer Streaming service that offers fairly competitive pricing over other Live streaming services. The only catch is they do not currently offer a DVR. Their service offers CMT as a part of their 60+ channel Core package. The Core Plan costs $55 per month.
There is no contract with Vidgo, and you can cancel any time. They do offer a 3-day free trial, which you can cancel within the first three days at no charge. Vidgo is supported on available on Android, iOS, Roku, Apple TV, Fire TV. You can also stream the service on up to 3 devices at the same time. We have the full details in our guide to Vidgo’s live streaming service.
DIRECTV Stream
CMT is one of the channels available on AT&T’s streaming service DIRECTV Stream. For a price of $69.99 you will get the following:
- watch 20 streams simultaneously per subscription
- a cloud-based DVR
- channels like CMT, AMC, HGTV, Discovery, and more
- supported on AppleTV, Android TV, Roku, Amazon FireTV, and more
You can check out everything this service offers by taking advantage of their online offer or read about it in our DIRECTV Stream review.
YouTube TV
Youtube includes CMT along with several other channels to their lineup. YouTubeTV does include a DVR with limitless storage space for recording your shows. Plus, you can watch your library of recorded shows anywhere! The YouTube TV channel lineup includes CMT for $64.99 a month. Youtube TV supports Roku, Android, iOS, and Chromecasts (along with Chromecast-compatible TVs.) See our review of YouTube TV to learn more.
Watch The CMT Music Awards for Free
Some of the streaming services that carry CMT offer a free trial. You can take advantage of those and watch the CMT Music Awards for free CMT. Let’s look at the free trials available.
- Philo – offers a 7-day free trial
- Hulu Live TV – Offers a 1-week Free Trial
- FuboTV – offers a 1-week free trial.
- YouTube TV – offers a free trial
As long as you cancel before the free trial expires, you won’t be charged.
2021 CMT Music Awards Nominees
Below are the categories and nominees for this years CMT Music Awards
VIDEO OF THE YEAR
- Carrie Underwood with John Legend – “Hallelujah”
- Dierks Bentley – “Gone”
- Elle King and Miranda Lambert – “Drunk (And I Don’t Wanna Go Home)”
- Ingrid Andress – “Lady Like”
- Kane Brown – “Worldwide Beautiful”
- Keith Urban with Pink – “One Too Many”
- Kelsea Ballerini – “hole in the bottle”
- Kenny Chesney – “Knowing You”
- Maren Morris – “Better Than We Found It”
- Mickey Guyton – “Heaven Down Here”
- Miranda Lambert – “Settling Down”
- Ryan Hurd with Maren Morris – “Chasing After You”
- Sam Hunt – “Breaking Up Was Easy In The 90’s”
- Willie Jones – “American Dream”
FEMALE VIDEO OF THE YEAR
- Carly Pearce – “Next Girl”
- Gabby Barrett – “The Good Ones”
- Kelsea Ballerini – “hole in the bottle”
- Maren Morris – “To Hell and Back”
- Mickey Guyton – “Heaven Down Here”
- Miranda Lambert – “Settling Down”
MALE VIDEO OF THE YEAR
- Chris Stapleton – “Starting Over”
- Darius Rucker – “Beers and Sunshine”
- Kane Brown – “Worship You”
- Luke Bryan – “Down To One”
- Luke Combs – “Lovin’ On You”
- Thomas Rhett – “What’s Your Country Song”
DUO/GROUP VIDEO OF THE YEAR
- Brothers Osborne – “All Night”
- Lady A – “Like A Lady”
- Little Big Town – “Wine, Beer, Whiskey”
- Old Dominion – “Never Be Sorry”
- Parmalee and Blanco Brown – “Just The Way”
- Runaway June – “We Were Rich”
BREAKTHROUGH VIDEO OF THE YEAR
- Dylan Scott – “Nobody”
- Hailey Whitters feat. Little Big Town – “Fillin’ My Cup”
- HARDY – “Give Heaven Some Hell”
- Lainey Wilson – “Things a Man Oughta Know”
- Mickey Guyton – “Black Like Me”
- Niko Moon – “GOOD TIME (Ride Along Video)”
COLLABORATIVE VIDEO OF THE YEAR
- Carrie Underwood with John Legend – “Hallelujah”
- Chris Young and Kane Brown – “Famous Friends”
- Elle King and Miranda Lambert – “Drunk (And I Don’t Wanna Go Home)”
- Keith Urban with Pink – “One Too Many”
- Ryan Hurd with Maren Morris – “Chasing After You”
- Tim McGraw and Tyler Hubbard – “Undivided”
CMT PERFORMANCE OF THE YEAR
- From the 2020 CMT Music Awards – Brooks and Dunn, and Luke Combs “1, 2 Many”
- From the 2020 CMT Music Awards – Dan + Shay “I Should Probably Go To Bed”
- From the 2020 CMT Music Awards – Jimmie Allen and Noah Cyrus “This Is Us”
- From the 2020 CMT Music Awards – Kelsea Ballerini and Halsey “The Other Girl”
- From the 2020 CMT Music Awards – Little Big Town “Wine, Beer, Whiskey”
- From CMT Crossroads – Nathaniel Rateliff and Margo Price “Twinkle Twinkle”
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