Now that last night’s 52nd annual Country Music Association (CMA) awards are history, here are some historical factoids:

-Keith Urban’s win for Entertainer of the Year was his second. He first won in 2005. That’s a significant gap of 13 years between wins, but it’s not the record. Garth Brooks holds that record with 18 years between his wins in 1998 and 2017. Garth still holds the record for the most wins with six. I thought Keith’s reaction was the most emotional of the night, starting with his long embrace with his wife, actress Nicole Kidman to the long list of people he thanked on stage. BTW, his performance of “Never Comin’ Down” was the second time he’s performed that song on a national awards show – the first time was in September at the Canadian Country Music Awards.

-Chris Stapleton obviously had the biggest night with wins for Male Vocalist and Single and Song of the Year for “Broken Halos.” It was the 16th time in CMA history that the same song won both Single and Song of the Year in the same year. One award is for the actual performance of the song and the other is for the songwriters. As Stapleton noted in his acceptance speech for Single, any one of the nominates was worthy of winning. His fourth consecutive win for Male Vocalist is one shy of the record. Vince Gill (1991-1995) and Blake Shelton (2010-2014) are tied for the record of five wins in-a-row.

-Brothers Osborne are the only brother act to win Vocal Duo of the Year in the history of the CMA awards and they’ve won it now for the last three years. The record for consecutive wins is seven, held by Brooks & Dunn (1992-1999). They also hold the record for most wins with 13!

-Carrie Underwood’s Female Vocalist win was her fifth in that category. She holds the record for longest time span between wins: eight (2008-2016). Miranda Lambert still holds the record for most wins (7) and most consecutive wins (6).

-and Old Dominion’s win for Vocal Group was their first. But they have a long way to go to match or break any records in that category. The Statler Brothers won it a record nine times and they share the record for most consecutive wins, six, with Rascal Flatts and Little Big Town.

A few random notes about last night’s show: it was nice to see Canada’s Lindsay Ell in the opening number, a huge collaboration on Luke Bryan’s current hit “What Makes You Country;” I thought Jason Aldean and Brad Paisley sounded off-key or off-pitch during their performances (Brad on his solo performance); the Ricky Skaggs tribute was awesome; and the salute to the late Burt Reynolds was well done (few movies, like his “Smokey & the Bandit,” had such an impact on country music). Overall, it was a good show with few surprises.