Beyoncé has gained Finest Nation Album on the 2025 Grammy Awards for Cowboy Carter. Beyoncé triumphed within the class over Chris Stapleton (Greater), Kacey Musgraves (Deeper Properly), Publish Malone (F-1 Trillion) and Lainey Wilson (Whirlwind). Taylor Swift introduced the award.
In her acceptance speech, Beyoncé mentioned, “Wow, I actually was not anticipating this. Wow. I need to thank God. Oh my God! That I’m in a position to nonetheless do what I like after so a few years. Oh, my God. I’d wish to thank the entire unimaginable nation artists that accepted this, this album. We labored so laborious on it. I feel generally style is a code phrase to maintain us in our place as artists, and I simply need to encourage folks to do what they’re enthusiastic about and to remain persistent. Wow! I’d wish to thank my lovely household, the entire artists that have been collaborators, thanks; this wouldn’t have been this album with out you. I’d wish to thank God once more and my followers, and I nonetheless am in shock, so thanks a lot for this honor.”
Finest Nation Album is a crucial win for Beyoncé—an artist who already boasts probably the most Grammy wins within the ceremony’s historical past. Actually, that is the primary 12 months Beyoncé has been nominated within the nation class, regardless of coming into her Lemonade monitor “Daddy Classes” practically a decade in the past. (The Recording Academy rejected it from that group.) Upon revealing the art work for Cowboy Carter, again in March 2024, Beyoncé spoke of the criticism she’s confronted whereas in search of acceptance inside nation music.
Earlier within the night, Beyoncé and Miley Cyrus gained the 2025 Grammy Award for Best Country Duo/Group Performance for the Cowboy Carter monitor “II Most Wished.” She went on to win Album of the Year.
