Of her “Cowboy Carter” challenge, Beyoncé as soon as put in writing: “This ain’t a rustic album. It is a ‘Beyoncé‘ album.” However since there aren’t any “greatest Beyoncé” classes but acknowledged by the Recording Academy, the famous person did enter “Cowboy Carter” and a number of other of its songs in nation fields for the 2025 Grammys. And whereas there was some doubt about how her entry into that subject could be acquired by voters in pitting her in opposition to long-time nation stars, it paid off, as Beyoncé can has a rustic Grammy underneath her belt.

Beyoncé picked up the very best nation duo/group efficiency award for “II Most Needed,” in tandem with Miley Cyrus. The award was given out in the course of the Grammys’ pre-telecast Premiere Ceremony, through which the overwhelming majority of the night time’s honors are handed out previous to the performance-heavy prime-time telecast.

Beyoncé was up for 4 nation Grammys this 12 months, out of her 11 general nominations. Three of these nation classes had been named within the pre-telecast, with Beyoncé lacking out on the opposite two, to Kacey Musgraves and Chris Stapleton. Her fourth probability at profitable in a rustic class comes tonight, when the very best nation album trophy is awarded in the primary telecast.

Beyoncé just isn’t the primary Black girl to win a rustic Grammy — though she’s the primary in additional than 50 years. The one precedent got here in 1974 when one other artist coming into the style from the skin, the Pointer Sisters, received greatest nation efficiency by a duo or group for the tune “Fairytale.”

Because the quote on the high of this text would point out, Beyoncé doesn’t contemplate “Cowboy Carter” to be simply a rustic album, and he or she submitted materials from it in a number of totally different style classes. 4 of her 11 nominations this 12 months did come within the nation division: greatest nation album, greatest nation tune (“Texas Maintain ‘Em”), greatest nation solo efficiency (“16 Carriages”) and greatest nation duo-group efficiency (“II Most Needed,” with Miley Cyrus). However she was additionally nominated in pop classes (with “Bodyguard” and “Levii’s Denims”) in addition to Americana (with “Ya Ya”) and melodic rap (“Spaghettii”).

Though Beyoncé was not in attendance at this afternoon ceremony, she might be attending the nighttime awards present and nonetheless has loads of potential alternatives to step as much as a podium, as she is nominated within the high three all-genre marquee classes — album of the 12 months for “Cowboy Carter” and document and tune of the 12 months for the one “Texas Maintain ‘Em.”

All eyes are on whether or not Beyoncé can lastly win album of the 12 months, in her fifth time at bat. It follows a historical past of presumed near-misses, just like the 12 months that Adele famously apologized for profitable greatest album over Beyoncé’s hailed “Lemonade.” She has additionally by no means received document of the 12 months, although she has picked up tune of the 12 months earlier than.

All points about her wins within the high classes apart, in the case of the sheer quantity of nominations and wins, Beyoncé’s followers have had nothing to complain about. She stays essentially the most nominated individual in Grammy historical past, having come into the 2025 ceremony with 99 noms to her identify, together with the 11 she picked up on this 12 months’s race. And previous to this contemporary set of awards, she already held the document for essentially the most wins, with 32. (One other Beyoncé document: Her nomination for document of the 12 months is her ninth, essentially the most ever for any artist, although coming in to ’25 she has but to register a win within the class.)