2024 People’s Choice Country Awards: Biggest Winners!
Carly Pearce knows thing is going to clasp Beyoncé down, down, down, down.
So portion Queen Bey wasn’t nominated for immoderate Country Music Association Awards—despite Cowboy Carter being 1 of the astir palmy albums of the year—the “Next Girl” vocalist doesn’t deliberation Beyoncé herself is excessively worried.
“Beyoncé is Beyoncé,” Carly told E! News’ Keltie Knight at the 2024 People’s Choice Country Awards Sept. 26, wherever Beyoncé was nominated successful 10 categories. “I deliberation she has publically said she did not marque a state album. She was making an album, and yes, there's a batch of Western, a batch of state elements, due to the fact that I deliberation she's grounded successful her roots successful Texas.”
She continued, “I don't deliberation Beyoncé cares that she didn't get nominated for a CMA award. And I deliberation everybody tin conscionable calm down. I deliberation she's doing okay. She's not disquieted astir the authorities of her career.” (To spot each the stars astatine the PCCAs reddish carpet, click here.)
But portion the “Texas Hold ‘Em” prima herself has remained quiescent since the CMA Awards nominations came out, determination has been overmuch sermon implicit wherefore Cowboy Carter—which had the biggest debut of the twelvemonth for a state medium and spent weeks connected Billboard’s Top Country Albums chart—did not gain the 43-year-old immoderate nods.
Among those weighing successful was besides state euphony fable Dolly Parton, who spoke retired successful defence of the CMA Awards.
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“Well, you ne'er know,” Dolly told Variety in an interrogation published Sept. 17. “There’s truthful galore fantastic state artists that, I conjecture astir apt the state euphony field, they astir apt thought, well, we can’t truly permission retired immoderate of the ones that walk their full beingness doing that.”
And portion noting Cowboy Carter was a “wonderful album,” the Music Hall of Famer continued of Beyoncé, “She tin beryllium very, precise proud. And I deliberation everybody successful state euphony welcomed her and thought that was good. So I don’t deliberation it was a substance of shutting out. I deliberation it was conscionable much of what the state charts and the state artists were doing, that bash that each the time, not conscionable a specialty album.”
Previously, Dolly—whose opus “Jolene” was covered by Beyoncé connected Cowboy Carter—praised the work.
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"I was precise arrogant of her album," Dolly told E! News in May. "I thought she did a large occupation successful state music, and I thought it was great. And I was conscionable blessed she did 'Jolene.'”
The deficiency of nominations comes aft Beyoncé spoke to the inspiration down the genre-detouring album, which was a departure from her erstwhile R&B, popular and hip-hop albums.
"It was calved retired of an acquisition that I had years agone wherever I did not consciousness welcomed," Beyoncé said of Cowboy Carter on Instagram in March, "and it was precise wide that I wasn't. But, due to the fact that of that experience, I did a deeper dive into the past of Country euphony and studied our affluent philharmonic archive."
"The criticisms I faced erstwhile I archetypal entered this genre," she continued, "forced maine to propel past the limitations that were enactment connected me. enactment ii is simply a effect of challenging myself, and taking my clip to crook and blend genres unneurotic to make this assemblage of work."
But portion Beyoncé mightiness person been excluded from the CMA Awards, astatine the 2024 People’s Choice Country Awards she was nominated for successful 10 categories, including the People’s Artist, Female Artist, Album of 2024, and Song of the Year.
To spot however she fared—and for each the evening’s winners—keep reading.
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