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Beyoncé‘s Cowboy Carter is reportedly set to compete in the country category at the 2025 Grammys, following major snubs from the likes of the Country Music Awards and the People’s Choice Country Awards.
The Hollywood Reporter announced that the album had been accepted into the category by the Recording Academy on Wednesday (October 2). While other nominees have yet to be revealed, she’s likely to go up against the likes of Post Malone, Chris Stapleton, Lainey Wilson, Zach Bryan, Kacey Musgraves and Moroney.
Cowboy Carter is also expected be nominated for album of the year.
This will be Beyoncé’s first time competing in a country category at the awards, as she was previously denied her 2017 submission for Lemonade‘s “Daddy Lessons” to be on the ballot for Best Country Song.
Cowboy Carter has been a major commercial success since its release in March. The album debuted atop the Billboard 200 tally with 407,000 equivalent album units in its first week, making for the biggest sales week of 2024 at the time – though it has since been one-upped by Taylor Swift’s latest effort.
Twenty three of the album’s 27 songs also made it to the Billboard Hot 100 chart, bringing the Houston native’s career total Billboard Hot 100 songs to 106. She is now just the 17th artist and only the third woman to score over 100 entries since the Hot 100 was launched in 1958.
But despite this, Beyoncé was snubbed completely at the 2024 Country Music Awards – receiving zero nominations.
She then came out empty handed at the 2024 People’s Choice Country Awards – despite receiving the second highest number of nominations this year.
Ahead of the event, which went down on September 26, Bey was up for a staggering 17 nominations for the album.
All winners at the People’s Country Music Awards — a self-proclaimed “award show for the people and by the people” — were decided by fan votes during a pretty tight voting period, which started on August 13 and ended August 23.
But despite the impressive amount of nods, she walked away 0 for 17. She was, however, mentioned by Cowboy Carter-featured artist Shaboozey during his acceptance speech, who thanked the superstar singer for “being amazing.”
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Young Thug‘s YSL RICO trial is already the longest-running trial in history, and now it just set another new record.
On Wednesday (October 2), X account The Blvck Law Student noted that YSL defense lawyers have filed a total of 45 motions for mistrial since the trial began – none of which have been granted. This is the first time such a thing has ever happened.
The unorthodox record was tallied the day after Thug’s lawyer’s latest motion for mistrial was denied by Judge Paige Reese Whitaker.
While that is a setback for the YSL rapper, Whitaker also slammed the prosecution for how they are presenting their case against Thugger, who they accuse of being the head of a criminal street gang.
In a moment of frustration captured on the court’s livestream, Whitaker admonished prosecutors, saying: “I don’t want to malign the prosecutor standing in front of me right now, so I’m not going to say the possible things it could be.
“But it is baffling to me that somebody with the number of years of experience that you have, time after time after time, continues to seemingly and purposefully hide the ball to the extent you possibly can, for as long as you possibly can.”
She added: “I really don’t want to believe that it is purposeful, but honestly, after a certain number of times, you start to wonder how it could be anything but that. Unless it is just that you are so unorganized that you are throwing this case together as you try it.
“This case is being made much more difficult for everybody because of the haphazard way in which it is being presented.”
Whitaker then called a brief recess and retreated to her quarters to consider the mistrial motion, but ultimately decided against it.
As noted, Young Thug’s RICO trial is the longest-running courtroom saga in Georgia state history and has seen no shortage of drama since it began in November 2023.Most of the trial’s most remarkable moments have revolved around key witness Kenneth “Lil Woody” Copeland, who was granted immunity by the prosecution for his testimony.
He previously told the court that he had been a prolific liar, saying: “Like I told you before y’all called me to trial, I have lied. I made things up. I told you this before y’all brought me in this courtroom, and I’m telling you now.
“You asked me about 2015. I had got my life together. Y’all are trying to put this on my conscience, y’all are trying to put people’s lives in my hands.”
He continued: “I don’t wanna be here. Y’all have pressured me, I’m tired of y’all, cause y’all know y’all wrong and y’all Black people doing this to us.”
Copeland also fired his own attorney while on the stand.
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