Beyoncé Wins Best Country Album At The 2025 Grammys

Beyoncé Becomes First Black Woman To Win Best Country Album At The 2025 Grammys

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This ain’t Texas…. or the Country Music Awards.

Beyoncé may have been famously snubbed at last year’s CMA Awards, but her country album Cowboy Carter was redeemed tonight at the 2025 Grammy Awards winning for Best Country Album.

Queen Bey was stunned when Taylor Swift announced she was the winner in the category, which boasted an impressive list of competitors that included Chris Stapleton (Higher), Kacey Musgraves (Deeper Well), Post Malone (F-1 Trillion) and Lainey Wilson (Whirlwind).

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Beyoncé accepts the Best Country Album award for “Cowboy Carter” from Taylor Swift onstage during the 67th GRAMMY Awards at Crypto.com Arena on February 02, 2025 in Los Angeles, California. Source: Amy Sussman / Getty

“Wow, I really was not expecting this,” the 43-year-old explained as she accepted the award. “Wow. I want to thank God. Oh my God! That I’m able to still do what I love after so many years. Oh my God. I’d like to thank all the incredible country artists that accepted this album. We worked so hard on it.”

As her husband Jay-Z and daughter Blue Ivy looked on from the crowd, the “Blackbird” diva let the crowd know that she was happy to be blazing a trail for future artists to defy genres to be true to themselves.

“I think sometimes genre is a code word to keep us in our place as artists, and I just want to encourage people to do what they’re passionate about and to stay persistent,” Beyoncé said with a wink to the haters and wannabe Country gatekeepers. “Wow. I’d like to thank my beautiful family, all of the artists that were collaborators, thank you; this album wouldn’t have been without you. I’d like to thank God again and my fans, and I’m still in shock.”

Earlier today (Feb. 2), the “16 Carriages” singer announced in a video on her Instagram page that she will be embarking on a Cowboy Carter Tour to celebrate the project, which debuted at No. 1 on the Billboard 200 albums chart.

No other details regarding the upcoming tour have been shared at this time.

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