“People don’t make albums anymore,” Beyoncé Knowles-Carter said in a 2013 interview in her HBO documentary. Her most recent album, “Cowboy Carter,” a celebration of Blackness, love, spirituality and blend of country music with other genres recently won Grammys for album of the year and country album of the year.

Beyoncé has finally won Album of the Year. The win comes more than two decades into her career for Cowboy Carter, her history-making eighth studio album created in response to her experience being rejected from the country genre as a Black woman from the South.

Beyoncé's Cowboy Carter has won album of the year at the 2025 Grammy Awards. Queen Bey continued her historic night with her first win in the album of the year category. She's the first Black woman to take home the album of the year Grammy as the lead artist this century.