Beyoncé snubbed by 2025 Academy of Country Music Awards despite Grammy wins for 'Cowboy Carter': All you need to know

The Dangerously in Love singer, Beyoncé, is making headlines on social media. Her eighth studio album, Cowboy Carter, has not been nominated for the 2025 Academy of Country Music (ACM) Awards.

Despite winning several awards at the 67th Annual Grammy Awards, which was held in February 2025, and also winning the Album of the Year and Best Country Album awards, Cowboy Cater was not nominated at the ACM awards.

It should be noted that this is not the first time Beyoncé was not nominated. Back in 2024 also she was also left out of the Country Music Association (CMA) Awards.

Why was Beyoncé's Cowboy Carter not nominated at the 2025 Country Music Association (CMA) Awards

Cowboy Carter came out last year in March 2024. It is a concept album and is the second part of the trilogy following Renaissance, which was released in 2022.

Despite being the first Black woman to win the Best Country Album Grammy for Cowboy Carter, her name was left out from the nominations list of CMA awards that came out on Thursday.

During an interview with Billboard on Thursday, the CEO of the Academy of Country Music (ACM) Awards, Damon Whiteside was asked about the snub. He responded by saying that they hoped that her name would be there in the nominations as they love having her in country music.

He further said that Beyoncé will always be welcome for a performance at the awards function.

Last year, in an interview with NBC10 Boston, A Moment Like This singer, Kelly Clarkson, shared her thoughts on Beyoncé being snubbed. She said:

''I kind of find it fascinating, because I feel like those songs were everywhere.''

On February 2, 2205, when Cowboy Carter won several Grammy awards, Beyoncé made a statement. She said:

“I'd like to thank all of the incredible country artists that accepted this album. I think sometimes genre is a code word to keep us in our place as artists and I just want to encourage people to do what they’re passionate about and to stay persistent.”

While there is no solid reason as to why Beyoncé was snubbed by the CMA awards, some netizens believe that it is because she is not a country music artist, as her past music has been pop and R&B.

This belief sparked another debate regarding Post Malone, a pop, R&B, and hip-hop singer who ventured into country music in 2024. Netizens pointed out that even though Malone is new to country music, the album F-1 Trillion, his first country album, which he released in 2024, was still nominated for several awards at the CMA and ACM Awards.

The ACM Awards will take place in Texas on May 8 and will be hosted by Reba McEntire.