The Ladies RULED At CMT Artists of the Year Show Last Night

CMT’s Annual Artist of the Year celebration took place last night at Nashville’s Schermerhorn Symphony Center, and it was definitely the year of the woman. This year’s entire honoree class was all female, including Carrie Underwood, Miranda Lambert, Kelsea Ballerini, Maren Morris, Little Big Town’s Karen Fairchild and Kimberly Schlapman and Lady Antebellum’s Hillary Scott.

Bonus videos below: Maren Morris & Brandi Carlile's performance of "Natural Woman."

And Miranda Lambert and some of her musical besties, including Pistol Annies ,show off backstage at last night's (Wednesday) CMT Artists of the Year show.