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Why Beyoncé and Post Malone Will Both Score Grammy Nods for Best Country Album, Despite Contrary Approaches to the Genre
Beyoncé and Post Malone should both end up scoring Grammy nominations for both country album — even though they take opposite approaches to the genre.
Two of the biggest and most talked-about albums of 2024 have come from pop artists crossing over into the realm of country music: Beyoncé ’s April release, “Cowboy Carter,” and Post Malone ’s August LP, “F-1 Trillion.” Beyond the most basic genre-crossing surface similarities, these two records could hardly be more dissimilar in their ambitions and how they’ve been received by radio, critics and different subsets of fans. So when Post Malone came out of the gate months later with his own crossover album, naturally, those same people said he didn’t deserve a radio chart slot over the guys who’d worked long and hard to make it within the genre… right? Beyoncé will score on plenty of ballots from voters who usually favor albums by artists who either skew toward the Americana side of things or are traditionalists long past their commercial prime.
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