You can looker there, but you won’t find Beyoncé at the 2024 CMA Awards . Despite releasing one of the top country albums of the year in Cowboy Carter , Beyoncé did not find herself among the nominees for this year’s Country Music Association Awards. Therefore, the Queen Bey will be passing on the event.
It was a perceived snub that generated a lot of discourse, especially given that the album marked the biggest debut of the year for a country album and spent weeks on Billboard’s Top Country Albums chart. (It even went on to pick up 11 Grammy nominations, including four in the country categories.) The controversy led to many household names in country music weighing in.
Luke Bryan , for one, acknowledged the impact of Cowboy Carter —and clarified that nobody within the genre was upset by her entry. "A lot of great music is sometimes overlooked, and sometimes you don't get nominated," he explained on Sirius XM's Andy Cohen Live Oct. 1.
"Everybody loved that Beyoncé made a country album. Nobody's mad about it." He continued, "I'm all for everybody coming in and making country albums at all that.
Just because she made one—just because I made one doesn't mean I get any nominations." The 48-year-old added, though, that for him, the genre is about more than just the music someone makes. "Where things get a little tricky—if you're gonna make country albums, come into our world and be country with us a little bit," he added.
"Come to an award show and high-five us, .
