Beyoncé Finally Wins Album of the Year, as ‘Cowboy Carter’ Takes Grammys’ Top Prize

https://variety.com/2025/music/news/beyonce-grammy-album-of-the-year-win-cowboy-carter-1236294687/

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  2. I want to be honest, but I also don’t want to be downvoted, but whatever:

    Do the Grammys even matter anymore? And when exactly did that happen? At least with movies and tv and such, you can still argue some merit (though even that’s been declining).

    What’s won Best Album over the past 30 years that we can honestly say will be revered in another 30?

  3. Love it for her personally would’ve given it to Billie Or Chappell but I don’t mind Beyonce winning it Toilet paper department didn’t win so I’m happy

  4. Happy for her but this feels like a throwaway award to appease her and jay-z for all the times she was snubbed. I really think the other albums in this category deserved this more but oh well.

  5. I’m glad Beyoncé finally won, even if this isn’t my favorite album of hers.

  6. Career achievement award; she should have won in 2013 but they picked Beck out of left field, giving him the award he should have won for Odelay in 1996. So it’s Celine Dion’s fault.

  7. It’s not DEI, she’s just overrated. The most interesting and diverse album in that group of albums was definitely Chappell Roan’s. Every single song is completely different and they’re all well written, well produced and beautifully sung.
    Beyonce is very talented but none of her albums have been the best album in any year she’s been nominated. This album isn’t even her best album. Lemonade was a far better album.
    The Weeknd had a legitimate complaint the year he wasn’t nominated. That was hands down better than the albums nominated that year.
    I have 30 years in the radio industry and I have listened to every song on all the nominated albums dozens or hundreds of times. Chappell Roan‘s album will be remembered years from now.

  8. Proof it’s never about best anything but about whose turn it is and/or industry recognition.

  9. Jesus comments are already brutal in here. Cowboy Carter may not be my favorite Beyoncé album ever and really Lemonade should have won way back in the day but you can tell how much craft went into this album. So much research done by her. So much effort to uplift other artists and really do country well. I also think she took a huge chance doing such a genre switch. I personally think this album will live on for years. Yes the category was stacked but I don’t see this as a letdown in any way. And yeah I also do believe she’s owed her flowers for the history she’s created in the music industry

  11. My second choice. Very happy for Beyoncé finally getting the win. I just think it’s a bummer Billie left with nothing tonight for her best project yet.

  13. The American people don’t give a shit about Grammys anymore.

  14. I want to preface that I have nothing against Beyonce. I don’t care much for her music, but have nothing personal against her or any other artist.

    But the powers of the industry (including Jay Z and other big wigs ) have been trying to make Beyonce into some musical genius. She’s not. She’s certainly super talented and has a solid catalog of songs, but doesn’t write most of her tunes and takes a lot of principal songwriting credit if she just makes some tweaks (see Halo written by Ryan Tedder).

    And I find it incredibly disingenuous that she talks about Cowboy Carter in this way:

    >*The joy of creating music is that there are no rules. The more I see the world evolving the more I felt a deeper connection to purity. With artificial intelligence and digital filters and programming, I wanted to go back to real instruments, and I used very old ones. I didn’t want some layers of instruments like strings, especially guitars, and organs perfectly in tune. I kept some songs raw and leaned into folk. All the sounds were so organic and human, everyday things like the wind, snaps and even the sound of birds and chickens, the sounds of nature.*

    Yet she basically didn’t write any of the music, save a few songs. She’s listed as one of the main producers. Sure.

    I think she has enough talent to just present herself as a performer. No need to make yourself out to be someone you are not.

    Taylor Swift now kind of falls into the same category, but she actually had a very robust songwriting career before transitioning into more commercial songs, even though, to be honest, her hooks/melodies were very, very simple and lack the polish of a master songwriter.

    But she has, like Beyonce, has gotten principal songwriting credits in all of her mega hits, which were mostly penned by Max Martin, the literal songwriting factory that has turned so many people into mega stars (The Weekend, Backstreet Boys, N Sync, Britney, etc.).

    Same thing with a band like Maroon 5, their biggest hits (particularly the most recent ones) are all written by others, yet Adam Levine is there getting principal songwriting credits.

    I get it, artists want everything. They are sad when they don’t have commercial success, but even with a lot of commercial success, they want their peers to recognize them artistically as well.

    Yes give Beyonce credit for trying earnestly to reinvent herself artistically, but they way she stood up on stage alone and basically took 100% credit. She briefly thanked her ‘collaborators’ and other country artists… bro, you have been and are standing on the shoulder of giants.

    The Grammys have definitely turned into a big popularity/networking contest for artists. It’s not to say the Oscars are immune to that, but they have been degrading at a much slower pace than the Grammys.

  15. Someone said it in another sub, it’s like an “Ok, here…” award

  17. How much is her win just the Grammys throwing shade at Country Music Awards?

  18. Who cares about this 💩 while their country burns lol

  19. She’s already the most awarded person in history. I’m so tired of her. Give it to the new talent.

  20. It was terrible. My god these awards shows are such a joke.

  21. Shouldn’t the Grammys title this the “Best Pop-Album” of the year? Also, the carters shouldn’t win anything but front row seats to their downfall.

  22. Thank god. Her work has basically gone unrecognized until now.

  23. Without commenting on the rest of the album, that’s maybe the worst version of Blackbird I’ve ever heard.

  26. I’ve never heard anyone even talk about this album how tf is it album of the year lmao

  27. Wasn’t this album terrible? Possibly her worst one

  28. I’m just happy the smallest man didn’t win.

  31. This is the music version of Leonardo DiCaprio winning a Best Actor Oscar for The Revenant

  33. Hahahah this album didn’t even have enough content to fill a whole tick tok.

    All we get is “this ain’t Texas”

  37. The Grammys don’t mean shit.

    It’s all industry BS, but you know this already if you have been paying attention.

  38. BS win. No way should she have won. Political BS.

  39. This is just like whenever MTV gave out that MJ vanguard award. It’s an award to hand out people that were snubbed before

  40. All you need to do is see how The Beatles and The Rolling Stones took the top rock honors and that tells you how close the Grammys are to the pulse of the music community.

  42. The Grammys are trash. All these award shows are BS now.

  45. Bagahahaha Jay Z and Beyoncé finally bitched enough to get her album of the year

  46. Did someone she beat in the category have their spouse pour champagne into a “lesser” category’s trophy because of it? Or did someone jump on stage to say someone else had one of the best albums of all time when she went to accept?

  47. Listen, Beyonce makes good music and Cowboy Carter had some good songs but the only song on that album that felt country in an way was Texas Hold ‘Em.

    I do not think she deserved country album of the year.

    Shaboozey is definitely worthy of that award and I hope he wins it one year because his music definitely hits the country genre to my ear. Beyonce just did not put out a country album.

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