Sunday’s award show marked Beyoncé’s first win for Album of the Year award, a category that hasn’t been claimed by a Black woman since Lauryn Hill in 1999.

Beyoncé accepts the Album of the Year award for "COWBOY CARTER" onstage during the 67th Annual GRAMMY Awards at Crypto.com Arena on February 02, 2025 in Los Angeles, California.

The Recording Academy has worked to reshape its voting pool, but the triumph of “Cowboy Carter” as album of the year can’t be traced to any one factor.

Every time someone presented one of the show’s major prizes — album of the year, record of the year, song of the year, best new artist — he or she rattled off the line before revealing the winner. It was a small but telling detail that demonstrated how the academy wants to be perceived after years of being portrayed as a shadowy record-industry cabal.

This article was originally published on February 6, 2023. At the 2025 Grammy Awards, Beyoncé won the awards for Album of the Year, Best Country Duo/Group Performance, and Best Country Album.

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By Lisa Richwine and Danielle Broadway LOS ANGELES (Reuters) - Beyonce scored the top prize at music's Grammy Awards on Sunday, taking album of the year for the first time in her career with her country record "Cowboy Carter,

Z, after accepting his award, mentioned in his acceptance speech that Beyonce has already won an impressive 32 Grammys, but she has never won the one for Album of the Year.

Whoopi Goldberg went on a fiery rant about Beyonce's Grammy win, saying, “You want to hold onto country music, like white people didn't also buy her country album"

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