Following Beyonce's win for Best Country Album with "Cowboy Carter", the Recording Academy is restructuring the country music ...

More than a year after its release, “Cowboy Carter” is still sparking conversations and upending perceptions about genre, ...

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Beyonce won the 2025 Best Country Album Grammy. Going forward, the country album category will be split into traditional and contemporary awards.

The Grammy Awards have added a Best Traditional Country Album category and renamed the Best Country Album category to Best Contemporary Country Album. The Recording Academy defines traditional country ...

The Recording Academy announced this morning that the award previously named Best Country Album will now be named Best ...

Mason said the additional Grammy category for country music allows for more inclusion in the genre. "When it comes to creativity, we don't want to exclude, we want to include," Mason said.

Grammy Awards announce new Traditional Country Album category after Beyoncé's historic win, sparking accusations of racism ...

The Grammys country category change was long overdue. It's bigger than Beyoncé. | Opinion The Recording Academy’s decision doesn’t just account for the ways in which country music has shifted ...

A new country music category has been added for the 2026 Grammy Awards. The change is meant to make space for where the genre is going.