43rd CMA AWARDS

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Originally Posted by Cornflake Girl

Are the CMA fan voted? If not, I cannot, understand how that happened. Were Reba McEntire and Miranda Lambert not in the same category?!

I even like Taylor Swift, but she's not a great vocalist, especially compared to the majority of female country singers.

They are voted on by CMA members, yours truly included. I voted for Reba for female vocalist. The reason she got it is that she is the golden child of the industry right now. I'm in radio promotion and I work the Big Machine/Valory singles. All I have to do is say Taylor Swift and most programmers immediately say yes. She's outsold almost everyone combined in country for the past two years and you can't open one the trades without seeing something about her. It's the whole 'Taylor is going to save Nashville" thing so of course if Nashville is voting it's going to be for her.