Beyoncé may have made the country album of the year according to millions of fans — but the voting members of the Country Music Association did not agree, as she received zero CMA nominations for her Cowboy Carter project.
The nominations for the Country Music Awards were announced on Monday (September 9), and Queen Bey did not get any. However, Shaboozey, who first came to the attention of many with his two appearances on Cowboy Carter, was nominated for Single of the Year for “A Bar Song (Tipsy).”
“Thank you Beyoncé for opening a door for us, starting a conversation, and giving us one of the most innovative country albums of all time!” he wrote on X as the news broke.
Check his message below.
That goes without saying. Thank you @Beyonce for opening a door for us, starting a conversation, and giving us one of the most innovative country albums of all time!
— Shaboozey (@ShaboozeysJeans) September 9, 2024
Bey’s fans were upset by the snub.
“The CMA’s have once again deferred to those in the industry who prefer to deny Black artists the recognition they deserve, failing to nominate Beyoncé in a single category this year despite her record-breaking success with TEXAS HOLD ‘EM and #COWBOYCARTER,” wrote fansite Beyoncé Legion.
Cowboy Carter was a massive success upon its release in March.
Billboard reported at the time that the album became officially Spotify’s most-streamed album in a single day in all of 2024 as of Friday (March 29). The project’s “Texas Hold Em” was streamed more than 200 million additional times before the album’s release.
“Cowboy Carter [also] has the biggest debut to date earning more first-day streams on Amazon Music globally than any of her previous albums. The album also marks the most first-day streams for a country album by a female artist in the history of Amazon Music,” reported the outlet.
The album debuted atop the Billboard 200 tally with 407,000 equivalent album units in its first week. It was the biggest sales week of 2024 at the time, though it has since been one-upped by Taylor Swift’s latest effort.
Twenty three of the album’s 27 songs also made it to the Billboard Hot 100 chart, bringing the Houston native’s career total Billboard Hot 100 songs to 106. She is now just the 17th artist and only the third woman to score over 100 entries since the Hot 100 was launched in 1958.
By May, the project had surpassed a billion streams on Spotify.
She wasn’t “snubbed”. It simply wasn’t a great country album. Peolle enjoyed it because they were Beyonce fans, not because it was a great country album.
“Thank you Beyonce for opening the door for us”. Mofos are retarded. There have been plenty of renowned black country artists for multiple decades. Idk why ppl are so ignorant about everything. She didn’t open a door lol. Just like Em didn’t open a door. There were famous white rappers before him toom
That album was simply awful and a terrible excuse for a country album. Good decision
I mean, it was Country flavored. But I wouldn’t really call it Country. Same time it did hit number one on the Country charts. So, the snub is some MAGA BS for sure.
You just said you wouldn’t call it country LOL. And FYI, those award shows are ran by people who hate MAGA. Don’t think country is woke? Look into it.
@gemlord Morgan Wallens album sold 5+ million. Beyonces in same time frame sould 1.3 million. Obviously, good music isn’t just about sales though… but if you’re talking country music, Morgan Wallen and Bryonce can’t even be compared. Wallen 100% is superior in that genre.
@Ehhhh….They can definitely be compared. 1.3 million records, not even counting streams is comparable. And this isn’t about whether or not Beyonce should have won. It’s that she wasn’t even CONSIDERED is the problem.
@Jay Clearly you can’t comprehend what you read. Otherwise, you’d have registered that I said her album was number one on Country music charts, not that I considered it Country. And no, Country ain’t Woke. It’s the last refuge of the unabashed Culture Vulture.
Sure they can be compared.. Morgan is god and Beyonce is trash in the genre of country lol comparison over
@genlord I really don’t get your logic. You say it should’ve been considered as album of the year for country, while simultaneously saying “not that I considered it country”. Exactly. No country fan considered it to be country music. It’s a sub genre version of country, much like Kid Rocks “country” music was never considered to be country as a whole. So why would an album be considered for country album of the year when it isn’t legit country music? You’re just saying since Billboard classified it as country that the country music awards should have also seen it as country, even though it isn’t, and nobody, including yourself thinks so either? Either way, award shows don’t matter. It’s all politics usually. All that really matters is that your fan base enjoys what you produce.
The Billboard charts and country music awards aren’t the same thing. They are not owned by the same enterprise. Just bc Billboard called it country doesn’t mean it’s country, much like Kid Rocks rap songs aren’t usually classified as hiphop.
Beyonce has lil teef!
TRUMP 2024
Fuck TRUMP 2024
MAGA 2024! FUCK KAMALA. If she gets in though, it’ll be kinda sad watching inner city folks get replaced by immigrants. At least I live far from those areas and won’t be as affected by the replacement.
Good!! shows the carters just can’t buy what they want. GTFO here.
Eminem’s been snubbed by plenty of black outlets so I guess we’re even now. Go cry into a handful of your government cheese and food stamps.
White folks using the race card. No surprise
Another outrage by entitled fans 🤣 I’d bet money that this is their 1st country album and know nothing about the genre.
Bc the album sucked y’all swear Beyonce needs her ass kissed Everytime she does something. Wild
Racist white boys run the comment section
“You don’t think Beyonce is one of the greatest current country artist?! It’s because she’s black, isn’t it?!?!?!”. You probably don’t even listen to country music lol.