Beyoncé’s Cowboy Carter snubbed by Country Music Awards

Beyoncé’s Cowboy Carter has been snubbed by the CMAs (Image: Twitter/Beyoncé)

Beyoncé‘s foray into country music with her album Cowboy Carter has been met with a surprising snub from the Country Music Association (CMA) Awards, despite achieving huge commercial success earlier this year.

The nominations for the 2024 CMA Awards, announced on Monday, didn’t include any recognition for Beyoncé’s album or its hit single ‘Texas Hold ‘Em’, which topped the Billboard Hot Country Songs chart for 10 consecutive weeks.

Though Beyoncé herself had previously said the release “ain’t a country album,” Billboard classified it as such.

This omission comes as a shock to many, given that Cowboy Carter made history as the first album by a Black woman to reach No 1 on the Billboard Top Country Albums chart. It

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