Country Music Association Award for Song of the Year

The following list shows the recipients for the Country Music Association Award for Song of the Year.[1] It was first handed out at the inaugural 1967 CMA Awards to Dallas Frazier for his song "There Goes My Everything" which had been popularised at that time by Jack Greene. Song of the Year is awarded to the songwriters rather than the artist (unless the artist helped to co-write the song).

Country Music Association Award for Song of the Year
CountryUnited States
Presented byCountry Music Association
First awarded1967
Currently held byMaren Morris, Jimmy Robbins, Laura Veltz (2020)

To date, thirteen men: Dallas Frazier (1967), Bobby Russell (1968), Bob Ferguson (1969), Kris Kristofferson (1970), Freddie Hart (1971-2), Kenny O'Dell (1973), Don Wayne (1974), John Denver (1975), Larry Weiss (1976), Richard Leigh (1978), Don Schlitz (1979), Lee Greenwood (1985) and Vince Gill (1996) and six women: K.T. Oslin (1988), Gretchen Peters (1995), Jennifer Nettles (2008), Kimberly Perry (2011), Taylor Swift (2018) and Lori McKenna (2019) have won the Song of the Year award with a solo composition.

To date, only three songs, "Easy Loving", "Always on My Mind" and "He Stopped Loving Her Today", have received the award in consecutive years.

Recipients

2018 recipient Chris Stapleton.
Lori McKenna won the award in consecutive years (2015-16) and also received Grammy Awards for the same songs.
2012 winner Blake Shelton wrote "Over You" about the death of his brother.
Jennifer Nettles is one of six women to receive the award for a solo composition.
Two-time winner Jamey Johnson.
Renowned songwriter Bill Anderson received the award in 2005 and 2007.
Four-time honoree Vince Gill.
1970 recipient Kris Kristofferson won for his classic hit "Sunday Mornin' Comin' Down".
Year Winner Work Nominees
2020[2] Maren Morris
Jimmy Robbins
Laura Veltz
"The Bones"
2019[3] Luke Combs
Wyatt Durrette
Robert Williford
"Beautiful Crazy"
2018[4] Mike Henderson
Chris Stapleton
"Broken Halos"
2017 Taylor Swift "Better Man"
2016 Lori McKenna "Humble and Kind"
2015 Hillary Lindsey
Lori McKenna
Liz Rose
"Girl Crush"
2014 Brandy Clark
Shane McAnally
Kacey Musgraves
"Follow Your Arrow"
2013 Jessi Alexander
Connie Harrington
Jimmy Yeary
"I Drive Your Truck"
2012 Miranda Lambert
Blake Shelton
"Over You"
2011 Kimberly Perry "If I Die Young"
2010 Tom Douglas
Allen Shamblin
"The House That Built Me"
2009 Jamey Johnson
Lee Thomas Miller
James Otto
"In Color"
2008 Jennifer Nettles "Stay"
2007 Bill Anderson
Buddy Cannon
Jamey Johnson
"Give It Away"
2006 Ronnie Dunn
Craig Wiseman
"Believe"
2005 Bill Anderson
Jon Randall
"Whiskey Lullaby"
2004 Tim Nichols
Craig Wiseman
"Live Like You Were Dying"
2003 Doug Johnson
Kim Williams
"Three Wooden Crosses"
2002 Alan Jackson "Where Were You (When the World Stopped Turning)"
2001 Larry Cordle
Larry Shell
"Murder on Music Row"
2000 Mark D. Sanders
Tia Sillers
"I Hope You Dance"
1999 Beth Nielsen Chapman
Robin Lerner
Annie Roboff
"This Kiss"
1998 Billy Kirsch
Steve Wariner
"Holes in the Floor of Heaven"
1997 Matraca Berg
Gary Harrison
"Strawberry Wine"
1996 Vince Gill "Go Rest High on That Mountain"
1995 Gretchen Peters "Independence Day"
1994 Jim McBride
Alan Jackson
"Chattahoochee"
1993 Vince Gill
John Barlow Jarvis
"I Still Believe in You"
1992 Max D. Barnes
Vince Gill
"Look at Us"
1991 Tim DuBois
Vince Gill
"When I Call Your Name"
1990 Don Henry
Jon Vezner
"Where've You Been"
1989 Max D. Barnes
Vern Gosdin
"Chiseled in Stone"
1988 K. T. Oslin "80's Ladies"
1987 Paul Overstreet
Don Schlitz
"Forever and Ever, Amen"
1986 Paul Overstreet
Don Schlitz
"On the Other Hand"
1985 Lee Greenwood "God Bless the U.S.A."
1984 Larry Henley
Jeff Silbar
"Wind Beneath My Wings"
1983 Wayne Carson
Johnny Christopher
Mark James
"Always on My Mind"
1982
1981 Bobby Braddock
Curly Putman
"He Stopped Loving Her Today"
1980
1979 Don Schlitz "The Gambler"
1978 Richard Leigh "Don't It Make My Brown Eyes Blue"
1977 Roger Bowling
Hal Bynum
"Lucille"
1976 Larry Weiss "Rhinestone Cowboy"
1975 John Denver "Back Home Again"
1974 Don Wayne "Country Bumpkin"
1973 Kenny O'Dell "Behind Closed Doors"
1972 Freddie Hart "Easy Loving"
1971
1970 Kris Kristofferson "Sunday Mornin' Comin' Down"
1969 Bob Ferguson "The Carroll County Accident"
1968 Bobby Russell "Honey"
1967 Dallas Frazier "There Goes My Everything"

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