10 Years of CMA Album of the Year Winners

The very first CMA Album of the Year was given to Jack Greene for There Goes My Everything in 1967. That is a part of country music history, as is the 1976 winner, Wanted: The Outlaws, from Waylon Jennings, Willie Nelson, Jessie Colter, and Tompall Glaser. That record was at the beginning of the Outlaw movement, and actually was the very first country music album to sell over a million copies, earning the artists a Platinum record. In 1991, a new artist by the name of Garth Brooks took home the award for his sophomore release, No Fences. This album went on to sell over 17 million albums, making it the second best selling country album of all time.

We will have to wait for November 12, 2008 to see which album will be added to the long list of CMA Album of the Year winners. For now, let's take a look back at the past ten years to see which albums received the coveted CMA Album of the Year honor.