Wednesday night, Tim McGraw ended Carrie Underwood's four-year-winning streak for the top prize at the 2016 CMT Music Awards with his music video for Humble and Kind ? which features footage provided by Oprah Winfrey ? while stars from outside the country music world performed onstage, including Pharrell, Cheap Trick and Pitbull. McGraw thanked Winfrey, Tyler Perry, video director Wes Edwards and others onstage at Bridgestone Arena in Nashville, Tennessee. "When we make a footprint as an artist, there's a lot of people involved in making that footprint.," McGraw said onstage. At the fan-voted show, he beat out Underwood, who has won video of the year consecutively since 2012 and also won the honour in 2010 and 2007.
Underwood still walked away as the night's big winner with two awards: She took home female video of the year and CMT performance of the year.