Beyoncé may be competing with a whole different set of artists at the 2025 Grammy Awards.
A source tells the Hollywood Reporter that the 43-year-old singer’s eighth studio album, Cowboy Carter, will be submitted under country categories.
The Recording Academy reportedly held a meeting with their screening committee last week to determine the categories in which albums and songs will compete.
As noted by THR, Beyoncé’s country submissions arrive seven years after her track “Daddy Lessons,” taken from 2016’s Lemonade, was rejected by the Grammys for a country nomination. Her genre-bending album instead received a total of nine nominations in the Rock, Pop, R&B, and Rap categories.
Cowboy Carter’s lead single, “Texas Hold ‘Em” went No. 1 on Billboard’s Hot 100 in February, just one week after the track became the first song by a Black woman to earn the top spot on the Hot Country Songs chart. Cowboy Carter went on to debut at No. 1 on the Billboard 200 in April and earned the biggest global Spotify streaming debut of the year.
Despite all of the accolades and success of the era, Beyoncé was shut out at the CMA Awards nominations just last month—which her father, Mathew Knowles, described as a “white and black” issue. She was also not awarded for any of the 17 categories she was nominated for at the People’s Choice Country Awards held last Thursday.
The competition in the country category remains fierce. According to Billboard‘s list of contenders for Best Country Album, the nominees include Kacey Musgraves with Deeper Well, Post Malone and his debut country album F-1 Trillion, Chris Stapleton’s Higher and Lainey Wilson’s Whirlwind.
As far as songs go, “Texas Hold ‘Em” may go up against singles like “The Architect” by Kacey Musgraves, “Dirt Cheap” by Cody Johnson, “Halfway to Hell” by Jelly Roll, “I Had Some Help” from Post Malone and Morgan Wallen, and Tucson Too Late by Jordan Davis.
With 32 Grammy awards to her name, Beyoncé is the most decorated artist in the Recording Academy’s history. With 88 nominations each, Bey and her husband Jay-Z are tied for the most nominations in Grammy history.
The 67th Annual Grammy Awards will be held on February 2, 2025 at the Crypto.com Arena in Los Angeles.
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