The 23rd Music City News Country Awards was held on June 5, 1989, at the Grand Ole Opry House, in Nashville, Tennessee . The ceremony was hosted by Barbara, Louise, and Irlene Mandrell.
Winners and nominees Winners are shown in bold. Entertainer of the YearAlbum of the Year Randy Travis Reba McEntire Ricky Van Shelton The Statlers George Strait Loving Proof — Ricky Van Shelton Chiseled in Stone — Vern Gosdin If You Ain't Lovin' You Ain't Livin' — George Strait Old 8x10 — Randy Travis The Statlers' Greatest Hits — The Statlers |- ! style="background:#EEDD82; width=50%" |Female Artist of the Year ! style="background:#EEDD82; width=50%" |Male Artist of the Year |- | style="vertical-align:top" | Reba McEntire Rosanne Cash Kathy Mattea K.T. Oslin Tanya Tucker | style="vertical-align:top" | Ricky Van Shelton Vern Gosdin George Strait Randy Travis Hank Williams Jr. Dwight Yoakam |- ! style="background:#EEDD82; width=50%" |Vocal Group of the Year ! style="background:#EEDD82; width=50%" |Vocal Duo of the Year |- | style="vertical-align:top" | The Statlers Alabama The Forester Sisters Highway 101 Oak Ridge Boys | style="vertical-align:top" | The Judds Bellamy Brothers The Everly Brothers The O'Kanes Sweethearts of the Rodeo |- ! style="background:#EEDD82; width=50%" |Single of the Year ! style="background:#EEDD82; width=50%" |Video of the Year |- | style="vertical-align:top" | "I'll Leave This World Loving You" — Ricky Van Shelton "Chiseled in Stone" — Vern Gosdin "Eighteen Wheels and a Dozen Roses" — Kathy Mattea "Gonna Take a Lot of River" — Oak Ridge Boys "Let's Get Started If We're Gonna Break My Heart" — The Statlers | style="vertical-align:top" | "I'll Leave This World Loving You" — Ricky Van Shelton "Eighteen Wheels and a Dozen Roses" — Kathy Mattea "Gonna Take a Lot of River" — Oak Ridge Boys "I Told You So" — Randy Travis "Streets of Bakersfield" — Dwight Yoakam and Buck Owens |- ! style="background:#EEDD85; width=50%" |Star of Tomorrow ! style="background:#EEDD85; width=50%" |Vocal Collaboration of the Year
Patty Loveless Rodney Crowell Holly Dunn Keith Whitley Dwight Yoakam | Dwight Yoakam and Buck Owens Rodney Crowell and Rosanne Cash Loretta Lynn and Conway Twitty Ricky Skaggs and Sharon White Tanya Tucker, Paul Davis, and Paul Overstreet |- ! style="background:#EEDD85; width=50%" |Gospel Act of the Year ! style="background:#EEDD85; width=50%" |Comedian of the Year
The Whites The Cathedrals The Chuck Wagon Gang Cumberland Boys Fox Brothers | Ray Stevens Andy Andrews Jerry Clower Shotgun Red Williams and Ree |- ! style="background:#EEDD85; width=50%" |Instrumentalist of the Year ! style="background:#EEDD85; width=50%" |TV Series of the Year
Ricky Skaggs Chet Atkins Roy Clark Charlie Daniels Mike Snider | Nashville Now Austin City Limits Dolly Hee Haw This Week in Country MusicTV Special of the Year A Country Music Celebration: 30th Anniversary of the Country Music Association Grand Ole Opry Live Special Hee Haw Anniversary Merle Haggard: Poet of the Common Man USO Celebrity Tour: Lee GreenwoodLiving Legend Award Johnny Cash
See also CMT Music Awards
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