Beyoncé Followers Slam CMAs for Snubbing Her ‘Cowboy Carter’ Album

Beyonce shouldn’t be nominated at this yr’s Nation Music Affiliation Awards.

The nominees for the 58th CMA Awards have been introduced at the moment (Sept. 9) and Beyonce’s identify was notably absent from the listing. The awards are thought-about a number of the most prestigious within the nation music group, and lots of followers have been anticipating that Beyonce was going to be amongst this yr’s nominees attributable to her groundbreaking album Cowboy Carter.

The undertaking was snubbed from Album of the Yr, which the affiliation says is “judged on all elements together with, however not restricted to, artist’s efficiency, musical background, engineering, packaging, design, artwork, structure and liner notes.”

Many followers anticipated that Cowboy Carter would get a nomination due to its success on the Billboard charts, together with its crossover to the nation charts upon its launch. Moreover, the album is among the yr’s most-acclaimed tasks the place it holds a 91 out of 100 on overview aggregator Metacritic.

The CMAs additionally particulars that the awards are “decided by eligible voting CMA members comprised of pros throughout the Nation Music business,” in keeping with a press launch.

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Cowboy Carter was launched on March 29 of this yr and broke a number of data upon its launch. Its lead single, “Texas Maintain ‘Em,” allowed Beyonce to grow to be the primary Black lady to high Billboard‘s Scorching Nation Songs chart when it debuted at No. 1. Moreover, she turned the primary lady to have topped each Scorching Nation Songs and Scorching R&B/Hip-Hop Songs because the lists’ inception.

Moreover, Cowboy Carter debuted at No. 1 on Billboard‘s high nation albums chart, changing into the primary Black lady to take action there. It additionally reached No. 1 on Billboard‘s Americana/people albums and high album gross sales charts.

Regardless of the success, followers are actually calling foul that the album was snubbed from the CMAs.