India, Nov. 18 -- The 59th Annual Country Music Awards (CMA) is finally here. Every year, the CMA Awards come together through the votes of more than seven thousand members of the Country Music Association. It is a huge pool of people working inside the business - writers, musicians, producers, radio folks - all deciding on who deserves a nod. The association itself has been around since 1958, back when it became the first trade group built specifically to support and push a single genre of music.

The very first CMA Awards show took place in 1967. A year later, it landed its first national broadcast on NBC, and it has been going on ever since. In 2006, the show shifted over to ABC, and it's stayed there ever since.

The CMA Awards will a...