The CMT Artists of the Year show honoured Canada's Shania Twain with the Artist of a Lifetime Award on Wednesday. The show airs Thursday.
Held at the Schermerhorn Symphony Center in Nashville, the evening also recognized Carrie Underwood and Kelsea Ballerini who, along with Twain, talked about women's influence on country music history.
Several singers then paid hommage to Twain by singing a medley of her songs in different genres.
Meghan Trainor, Jill Scott, and Ballerini did their version of "Man, I Feel Like A Woman," a classic in Twain's repertoire.
"I want to thank CMT for being such a huge support all these years even in my more rebellious years in the beginning when I was probably considered controversial, but you still put me on the air," Twain said.
Among other honourees, Artist of the Year Thomas Rhett sang a couple of his songs with Zara Larsson.
"I am honoured to be here because all the artists that are honoured here in this room, they didn't get here by chance, they got here by taking chances," Rhett said.