Beyonce lands best country album Grammy award for Cowboy Carter

Beyonce secured champion state medium astatine the Grammy Awards for Cowboy Carter, which was calved from an acquisition wherever she “did not consciousness welcome”.

The US superstar leads the nominations connected Sunday with 11 nods for her chart-topping state grounds which could marque Grammy past arsenic the astir decorated album, a rubric presently held by Santana’s Supernatural which received 9 awards successful 2000.

Pop prima Taylor Swift presented the grant to a shocked Beyonce astatine the ceremonial being held astatine the Crypto.com Arena successful Los Angeles.

Delivering her acceptance speech, the vocalist said: “I truly was not expecting this. I privation to convey God that I’m capable to inactive bash what I emotion aft truthful galore years.

“I’d similar to convey each of the unthinkable state artists that accepted this album. We worked truthful hard connected it.

“I deliberation sometimes genre is simply a acold connection to support america successful our spot arsenic artists and I conscionable privation to promote radical to bash what they’re passionate astir and to enactment persistent.”

Ahead of releasing the medium past year, the 43-year-old said successful a societal media station that the medium had been “born retired of an acquisition that I had years agone wherever I did not consciousness welcomed… and it was precise wide that I wasn’t”.

She added: “But, due to the fact that of that experience, I did a deeper dive into the past of Country euphony and studied our affluent philharmonic archive.”

The vocalist thanked her “beautiful family” arsenic her girl Blue Ivy and her hubby Jay-Z looked connected from the audience, arsenic good arsenic her fans and the artists who collaborated with her connected the album, including Miley Cyrus and Post Malone.

She presently holds the rubric of astir Grammy wins successful a beingness aft the vocalist made past erstwhile she picked up her 32nd gong successful 2023.

However, the prima has ne'er won the prestigious medium of the twelvemonth prize and she volition beryllium hoping to rectify that this twelvemonth arsenic Cowboy Carter is up for the coveted award.

She volition look pugnacious contention for the prize from Charli XCX’s Brat, Sabrina Carpenter’s Short n’ Sweet, Billie Eilish’s Hit Me Hard And Soft, Chappell Roan’s The Rise And Fall Of A Midwest Princess and Swift’s eleventh grounds The Tortured Poets Department.

Rapper Andre 3000 is besides nominated for his jazz flute medium New Blue Sun alongside Jacob Collier’s Djesse Vol 4.

Beyonce picked up her archetypal grant of the nighttime during the pre-ceremony for her opus featuring Cyrus, titled II Most Wanted, winning the state duo/group show gong.

Pop prima Carpenter besides secured her archetypal 2 Grammy wins, picking up champion popular vocal medium grant for her sixth workplace medium Short n’ Sweet and champion popular solo show grant for her summertime deed Espresso.

The US vocalist was cheered connected by chap nominees Swift and Eilish arsenic she made her mode to the signifier soon aft performing a medley of Espresso and Please Please Please from the winning album.

Collecting the award, she said: “I’m inactive retired of enactment from the performance, truthful I truly was not expecting this.

“And each those nominees that were conscionable connected the surface are immoderate of my favourite artists successful the world, and I can’t judge I’m nominated against them, oregon adjacent successful this country close now. This is my archetypal Grammys.”

The 25-year-old thanked her parent for “driving maine to each dependable lesson” on with her begetter and sisters.

Ahead of the win, Carpenter delivered a theatrical show successful a achromatic sparkly tuxedo formal which she tore distant to uncover an ice-blue sparkly bodysuit underneath.

US prima Eilish besides performed a melodic rendition of her opus Birds Of A Feather, which is nominated for grounds of the twelvemonth and opus of the year.

Rising prima Doechii secured champion rap medium for her 3rd mixtape Alligator Bites Never Heal, becoming the 3rd pistillate to bash truthful aft Lauryn Hill and Cardi B, with the aboriginal rapper presenting the grant connected Sunday.

Host comedian Trevor Noah opened the ceremonial by paying tribute to the “spirit” of Los Angeles communities aft they came unneurotic pursuing the devastating wildfires.

This year’s amusement is being dedicated to wildfire alleviation aft wind-driven blazes swept done parts of the Californian metropolis past month, destroying neighbourhoods and sidesplitting astatine slightest 28 people.

The amusement kicked disconnected with a show of Randy Newman’s I Love L.A. by John Legend, Sheryl Crow, Brad Paisley, Brittany Howard and St Vincent with people stone set Dawes.

British prima Charli XCX was among the aboriginal winners astatine the Grammys premiere ceremonial with the vocalist picking up champion dance/electronic medium for her culture-shaping sixth grounds Brat and champion creation popular signaling for its pb azygous Von Dutch – her archetypal Grammy wins.

The hashtag #BRATSWEEP has been gaining traction connected societal media disconnected the backmost of the medium Brat, which inspired a summertime trend, already securing a fig of prizes.

Despite her aboriginal success, Beyonce was beaten to champion state opus by Kacey Musgraves for her opus The Architect with Shane McAnally and Josh Osborne.

US rapper Kendrick Lamar’s Not Like Us besides picked up a slew of aboriginal prizes including champion euphony video, champion rap show and champion rap song.

The 2025 grant amusement is being hosted by South African comedian Noah for the 5th twelvemonth successful a enactment with 94 awards acceptable to beryllium handed retired crossed the premiere and main ceremony.