This ain’t a country album. This is a ‘Beyoncé‘ album.” But since there are no “best Beyoncé” categories yet recognized by the Recording Academy, the superstar did enter “Cowboy Carter” and several of its songs in country fields for the 2025 Grammys.

Beyoncé has finally won Album of the Year. The win comes more than two decades into her career for Cowboy Carter, her history-making eighth studio album created in response to her experience being rejected from the country genre as a Black woman from the South.

This article was originally published on February 6, 2023. At the 2025 Grammy Awards, Beyoncé won the awards for Album of the Year, Best Country Duo/Group Performance, and Best Country Album.